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  • Torture, for fun
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
    Bush regime sinks lower by the day
    That US soldiers serving the Bush regime considered that the systematic torture of prisoners of war was fun, no big deal, to vent their frustration, not serious and just joking around, does not surprise anyone any longer.
    The face of the great American heroine, Private Lynndie England, cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth, giving the thumbs-up sign while standing over or beside a pile of abused, terrified (…)

  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III Violence and Virtual Violence
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite a well-documented picture of under-reported sexualized violence, the major media has not shown any interest in pursuing cases of rape or abuse of Iraqi women by the US military. Instead, two stories about hoaxes or more accurately apparent hoaxes made the rounds earlier this year. They’re worth looking at to better understand what’s behind the seemingly artless way in which hoaxes and allegations of hoaxes creep into the factual history of abuse in Iraq.
    On May 4, 2004, just when (…)

  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Rapes and Rumors of Rape
    31 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lila Rajiva
    Part One & II
    By now, everyone has heard of the ghost detainees of Abu Ghraib — the prisoners who were never processed into the system and were kept out of sight of the Red Cross so that they could be whisked from prison to prison unaccounted for. But what about the other ghosts detainees — the women? Where are the women of Abu Ghraib and why have they been kept out of sight?
    When the Abu Ghraib story first broke at the end of April, no one appears to have found it (…)

  • Torturing Children
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 896 dead American soldiers. These have been covered to one degree or another, and then summarily dismissed, by the American mainstream news media. The biggest story of the Iraq war has not enjoyed any coverage in America, though it has been exploding across the international news (…)

  • Ambassador of Death, Right-Wing Death Squads, Drug Smuggling: George Bush’s Plan for Iraq
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ambassador of Death, Right-Wing Death Squads, Drug Smuggling: George Bush’s Plan for Iraq. gdy, mardi, 22/06/2004 - 21:09 Analyses | Démocratie June 22, 2004 From the Streets of Little Beirut Glen Yeadon
    New allegations of criminal conduct by the Bush regime are now surfacing almost daily. The investigation of torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib has expanded to include rape of prisoners, deaths of over 100 prisoners and thousands of prisoners held in secret prisons. It is also clear the (…)

  • Negroponte `looked the other way’ U.S. ambassador to Iraq under fire for rights record
    1 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Twenty years ago, he served as envoy to Honduras
    DUNCAN CAMPBELL SPECIAL TO THE STAR
    Suspicious deaths in custody. Allegations of torture. Claims of a military out of control. These are some of the key issues that will face John Negroponte, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
    Suspicious deaths in custody. Allegations of torture. Claims of a military out of control. Those were some of the key issues that faced John Negroponte 20 years ago when he was U.S. ambassador to (…)

  • Hill won’t release abuse dossier for risk of offending US
    22 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard, Defence Reporter
    The Federal Government has refused to make public a detailed 61-page dossier outlining what Australians knew about prisoner abuse in Iraq, with the Minister for Defence, Robert Hill, claiming some details would offend the US.
    Senator Hill was yesterday censured in the Senate for his role in misleading Parliament and his failure to take responsibility for the false statements made by him, the Prime Minister and senior Defence officials.
    Senator Hill had (…)

  • Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents
    10 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tomm W. Christiansen/Dagbladet Iraqis picked up for looting weapons were marched naked through a park into a building after their clothes were burned by American troops in April 2003. They were then freed and chased naked onto the street.
    SEXUAL HUMILIATION
    By KATE ZERNIKE and DAVID ROHDE
    In the weeks since photographs of naked detainees set off the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, military officials have portrayed the sexual humiliation captured in the images as the isolated acts of a (…)

  • Army noted Geneva Conventions violations in Iraq prisons last fall
    3 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Army general who visited Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last fall complained that the military was violating international war standards by incarcerating common criminals along with insurgents captured in attacks against U.S.-led forces. It was one among dozens of observations in a still-classified report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, portraying an overcrowded, dysfunctional prison system lacking basic sanitation and medical supplies.
    "Due to operational limitations, facility (…)

  • An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism
    8 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi. Take a close look at the leather strap, the pain on the prisoner’s face. No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash. (…)