The Road to Guantánamo, alternatively The Road to Guantanamo, is a British docudrama film written and directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the incarceration of three British citizens (the &#;Tipton Three&#;), who were captured in in Afghanistan and detained by the United States there and for more than two years at the detainment camp in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Operation Red Wings, informally referred to as the Battle of Abbas Ghar (often incorrectly called "Operation Redwing" or "Operation Red Wing"), was a combined / joint military operation during the War in Afghanistan in the Pech District of Afghanistan&#;s Kunar Province, on the slopes of a mountain named Sawtalo Sar, approximately west of Kunar&#;s provincial capital of Asadabad, in late June through mid-July .

President of the United States George W. Bush consistently referred to the Iraq War as "the central front in the War on Terror", and argued that if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, "terrorists will follow us here." While other proponents of the war have regularly echoed this assertion, as the conflict has dragged on, members of the U.S. Congress, the American public, and even U.S. troops have begun to question the connection between Iraq and the fight against terrorism.

Khalid Abdulrahman al-Fawwaz (خالد الفواز; kunya: Abu Omar al-Sebai (أبو عمر)Daily Telegraph,, September , is a Saudi who was under indictment in the United States from , USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies accused of helping to prepare the United States embassy bombings. He was extradited to the United States and arraigned in October . Al-Fawwaz appeared on the UN Committee&#;s list of individuals belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda, and was embargoed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury&#;s Office of Foreign Assets Control. According to the Treasury statement, al-Fawwaz was born on August , . He moved to London in . He was appointed by Osama bin Laden as the first head of the media organ called the Advice and Reform Committee in London, where he met Adel Abdel Bari and Abu Qatada, amongst others. In , while bin Laden was in Sudan, al-Fawwaz was said to be attempting to pave the way for bin Laden to move to Britain. He was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , as part of Operation Challenge, which resulted in the arrest of seven UK-resident men, who were accused of links to al-Jihad.Hoge, Warren. New York Times, "Britain arrests suspected of links to Bin Laden", September , One of the men was charged with possession of a weapon. Six months after the arrests, British Muslims staged a demonstration in front of Downing Street to protest against the continued incarceration of the seven men. L&#;Houssaine Kherchtou, testifying for the United States, claimed that al-Fawwaz had been the leader of an "Abu Bakr Siddique camp", which he contradictingly placed in Hayatabad, Pakistan, or Khost, Afghanistan.O&#;Neill, Sean. Daily Telegraph,, September , His trial, along with his co-defendant Abu Anas al Libi, also known as "Nazih al Raghie" or "Anas al Sebai", was scheduled to begin on November , before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. At the same time, his co-conspirator, Abdel Bari, pleaded guilty., Sep He was sentenced to life imprisonment on May .

The Chaldean Catholic Church (ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿīdtha kaldetha qāthuliqetha; Arabic: الكنيسة الكلدانية al-Kanīsa al-kaldāniyya; translation) is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, with the Chaldean Patriarchate having been originally formed out of the Church of the East in .