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I Spy

The FBI has been busily spying on anti-war activists. Ok, no big surprise. But The Nation magazine’s report on the use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), FBI-led teams of state and local police and federal agents, still makes interesting reading. As well as keeping a close track of Cindy Sheehan’s Gold Star Families for Peace, JTTFs have a presence on virtually every campus in the US.

Meanwhile, back in London, the Met's Forward Intelligence Teams are gearing up for a busy week of harrassing activists at the DSEi arms fair.

Guantanamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike

200 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike, according to a lawyer representing a number of clients at the base.

Clive Stafford Smith, who returned from Guantamo a week ago, told an audience at the Greenbelt Christian Festival in Cheltenham: 'The world needs to know that these guys are going to die in the next two to three weeks. They are starving themselves to death.'