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  • The Buck Never Stops at the Top
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    The FBI has blown the whistle on the Defense Department’s military investigators by accusing them of abusive treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    The FBI was especially outraged that the interrogators of suspected terrorists had posed as FBI agents.
    Administration officials usually are pretty clubby folks who close ranks in times of trouble. But apparently, the FBI was not ready to take the fall for the Pentagon’s atrocious treatment of some (…)

  • Hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We must hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    By Angie Pratt
    You want to know why when news of prisoner torture percolated up the channels of the government nothing was done? The answer is quite simple. They condoned the actions. In fact, we now know that they were following an executive order from George W. Bush. This isn’t based on hearsay. This isn’t a figment of some Massachusetts liberal’s imagination. This allegation is based on an internal FBI document (…)

  • Alarcón: The Five have been the victims of various forms of torture
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD -Special for Granma International-
    "WHEN he saw Gerardo, he was naked, locked up in what they called the "box," that is to say a "hole" within the "hole", with no clothes and with absolutely no contact with the outside world. When they took him out, they removed all the other prisoners who were in the "hole" because he was not allowed to be seen, or hear another human voice or see another human being," explained Ricardo Alarcón, recalling how New York lawyer Leonard (…)

  • Cuba Erects Sign Linking U.S. and Nazis
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by VANESSA ARRINGTON
    HAVANA - Cuba retaliated for the U.S. diplomatic mission’s Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents by putting up a billboard Friday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the U.S.A" stamp.
    The billboard, erected overnight facing the U.S. Interest Section’s offices, stands on the Malecon, Havana’s famed coastal highway.
    A diplomat at the mission noted the abuse of prisoners at (…)

  • Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton
    12 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Vikram Dodd and Clare Dyer
    Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guantánamo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the Guardian.
    The claims by Martin Mubanga, from London, are the latest to surface from the prison where the US holds 550 Muslim men it claims are terrorists in conditions that have sparked worldwide condemnation.
    Mr Mubanga, 31, alleges that (…)

  • Navy probes new photos of Iraqi prisoners abuse
    6 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. Navy has launched a criminal investigation into new photos that were posted on a website showing Navy SEALs in Iraq sitting on hooded and handcuffed Iraqi detainees, and pictures of bloodied prisoners, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
    by aljazeera
    An Associated Press reporter found about 40 of the photos posted on a commercial photo-sharing Web site, by a woman who said that her husband brought them from Iraq after his tour of duty.
    The reporter handed turned over the photos (…)

  • German Defense Minister Joins Abuse Investigation
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany’s top military official meets with military officials on Wednesday to discuss the allegations of abuse at training camps which are threatening to engulf the armed forces in a damaging scandal.
    The investigation into the alleged abuse of young soldiers at Bundeswehr military training camps takes its first official step on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Peter Struck meets army chiefs to discuss the deepening scandal.
    Struck, who announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the (…)

  • Abu Ghraib, Caribbean Style
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by New York Times
    Ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the Bush administration has claimed that the abuses depicted in those horrible photos were an isolated problem that was immediately fixed. The White House has repeatedly proclaimed its respect for the Geneva Conventions, international law and American statutes governing the treatment of prisoners.
    An article in The Times on Tuesday by Neil A. Lewis showed how hollow those assurances are. According to the International Committee (…)

  • Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Byrne
    Group that won Guantánamo ruling targets U.S. over Abu Ghraib
    Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    The charges, which will be filed Tuesday, name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, the former leading U.S. general in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez and seven other (…)

  • U.S. Operating Secret ’Torture Flights’
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Sunday Times of London is reporting that it has obtained evidence that the US government is leasing a special Gulfstream Jet to transport detained suspects to other nations that routinely use torture in their prisons. We speak with the reporter who broke the story. [includes rush transcript] The Sunday Times of London has obtained evidence that the US government is leasing a special Gulfstream Jet to transport detained suspects to other nations that routinely use torture in their (…)