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  • In the news: Newsweek scandal...
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The red cross confirmed similar behavior in U.S. controlled prisions regarding the holy book of the muslim: The Quoran.
    Newsweek was obviously forced to withdraw.
    See Spiegel Magazin (in German): http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,356663,00.html

  • Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAW STORY
    Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.
    Advertisement Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.
    Where the Newsweek report likely (…)

  • Torture’s Dirty Secret: It Works
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Torture’s true purpose is to terrorize. It may not work as an interrogation tool, but as an intimidation tactic, its success is clear.
    I recently caught a glimpse of the effects of torture in action at an event honoring Maher Arar. The Syrian-born Canadian is the world’s most famous victim of "rendition," the process by which US officials outsource torture to foreign countries. Arar was switching planes in New York when U.S. interrogators detained him and "rendered" him to Syria, where he (…)

  • Prisoners detained by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay still at risk of torture
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London - Prisoners detained by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere are still at risk of torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International said on Friday.
    A year after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal caused an international uproar when US guards were photographed abusing detainees, the human rights group said the Bush administration has shown a chilling disregard for international law.
    "The conditions to facilitate torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading (…)

  • 51 House members call on Gonzales to appoint special counsel on alleged U.S. ’war crimes’
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman John Conyers will be issuing a letter cosigned by roughly 50 House members calling for a special prosecutor to investigate claims that the U.S. has violated the War Crimes Act at secret detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, RAW STORY has learned.
    The following letter will be issued shortly.
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    May 12, 2005
    The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC (…)

  • Colonel who authorized use of dogs for interogation found guilty- fined $8,000 (wow)
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US colonel who authorised the use of dogs to interrogate prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison has been relieved of command after he was found guilty of dereliction of duty.
    Colonel Thomas Pappas, who headed the prison’s military intelligence operations, also received a written reprimand and was fined US$8000 (A$10500) for his involvement in the prisoner abuse scandal.
    A statement issued by the military said Pappas did not keep his personnel "adequately informed of, trained upon and (…)

  • Karpinski: RUMSFELD KNEW, Gen. Miller INSTRUCTED troops to use Leashes & Human Pyramids
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq blamed a ranking officer for introducing the use of human pyramids and dog leashes in the abuse of detainees and said in an interview on Thursday that abuse may be continuing there.
    Col. Janis Karpinski, a former one-star Army Reserve general who was punished in the scandal, said she had no idea what was going on at the prison and blamed Gen. Geoffrey Miller for the methods that were used to humiliate detainees. (…)

  • Army Insider Blows the Whistle on Human Rights Abuses at Guantánamo
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta
    For the first time, an army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses at Guantánamo
    Paul Harris in New York Sunday May 8, 2005 The Observer
    An American soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.
    Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing (…)

  • US imprisons Iraqi journalists without charges
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least nine Iraqi journalists who worked for major Western news organizations have disappeared into the network of concentration camps in which the US military is holding an estimated 17,000 citizens of the occupied country, the French news agency AFP reported May 5 .../...
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m07.shtml

  • Mistrial for Lyndie England: Graner says was following orders, photos intended for training manual !
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A military judge threw out a guilty plea by Lynndie England, a key figure in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, after new evidence in her trial indicated she considered herself innocent.
    The decision by Judge Colonel James Pohl yesterday throws into doubt the fate of the 22-year-old reservist private, made infamous by photos showing her pointing at a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners and holding one naked inmate on a dog-leash.
    The turning point was testimony by Private Charles Graner (…)