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  • Iraqi Prisoners claim US soldiers still committing abuse at Camp Bucca
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD, February 8 (IslamOnline.net) - The US occupation forces in Iraq are abusing Iraqi detainees and tearing up the Noble Qur’an, according to a message on a piece of cloth Iraqi detainees in the US-administrated Bucca detention camp in southern Iraq managed to sneak outside.
    The message also presented another version of events leading up to the killing of four Iraqi detainees by US forces at the camp on the eve of January 30 controversial elections, an incident that also left six (…)

  • Denver Post Seeks Access To Sealed Papers In GI Trials
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Denver Post Seeks Access To Sealed Papers In GI Trials Miles Moffeit, Denver Post Staff Writer Friday, February 04, 2005
    The CIA is denying Denver Post attorneys access to evidence used in a closed Army hearing that will determine whether Fort Carson soldiers face murder trials in the fatal interrogation of an Iraqi general.
    In recent weeks, attorneys representing The Post in its attempt to open up the proceedings have sought to view sealed documents introduced in a December evidentiary (…)

  • Chertoff And Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chertoff And Torture Dave Lindorff February 14, 2005 Issue Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the "war on terror" was about to be exposed. John Walker Lindh, the young Californian captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and touted by John Ashcroft as an "American Taliban," was scheduled to take the stand the following Monday in an evidence suppression hearing regarding a confession he had signed. There he would (…)

  • What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America?
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Saddam Hussein, Then George Bush, Now US Created Prime Minister Alyad Allawi Ordered Iraqi Prisoners Tortured. What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America? Marc Krug February 01, 2005 Over the years, Iraqi prisoners have found themselves ensnared in an inescapable trap. They have been subjected, without change or respite, to a seemingly unending succession of torture and abuse.
    What has changed, however, has been the identity of those inflicting this torture. First, it was (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Ex-Officer Describes Lewd Tactics At Guantanamo
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ex-Officer Describes Lewd Tactics At Guantanamo Paisley Dodds, Associated Press January 28, 2005
    San Juan, Puerto Rico - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with sexual touching, by wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear, rubbing a prisoner’s back with her breasts and in one case, smearing a Saudi man’s face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider’s written account.A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated (…)

  • No Comparison?
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Comparison? January 24th, 2005 : Filed by A! This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees. Can anyone tell me who said that? Was it:
    A) George W. Bush B) John Ashcroft C) Donald Rumsfeld D) (…)

  • Torture Continues at Hands of New Iraqi Government
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi security forces are committing systematic torture and other abuses against people in detention, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
    The 94-page report, The New Iraq? Torture and Ill-treatment of Detainees in Iraqi Custody, documents how unlawful arrest, long-term incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment of detainees (including children) by Iraqi authorities have become routine and commonplace. Human Rights Watch conducted interviews in Iraq with (…)

  • What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women A
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unusual Suspects What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women Are Tara McKelvey Issue Date: 02.04.05 On the morning of September 24, 2003 — five weeks after the suicide bombing of a United Nations compound in Baghdad killed 23 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, signaling an intensified phase of Iraqi insurgency — a group of American soldiers burst into Selwa’s villa near the banks of the Tigris River in Samarra, Iraq. (…)

  • The Scapegoat : Abu Ghraib - a policy, not an aberration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Justin Raimondo
    The show trial of U.S. Army reservist Charles Graner had something for everyone: tragedy, comedy, pathos, and propaganda. The tragic aspect was dominant, with the photos of the disgusting abuse illustrating the theme of senseless arbitrary violence, but there was also comedy, of a sort, with Guy Womack, Graner’s lawyer, making an argument that was unusual, to say the least:
    "Graner’s attorney said piling naked prisoners into pyramids and leading them by a leash were (…)