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  • Bush Team Pushed Torture
    21 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, April 21, 2008
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    Bush Team Pushed Torture Behind Myers’ Back
    The Guardian, basing itself on a soon-to-be-published book by Philippe Sands (Torture Team) reveals that torture was implemented at Guantanamo Bay in the face of opposition from Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, by White House lawyers Alberto Gonzales, David (…)

  • United States is torturing children and then falsifying evidence against them (videos)
    14 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, born 19 September 1986 in Ottawa Canada, “has been detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps since he was captured at the age of 15 following a 2002 firefight between American troops and militants in Afghanistan.” He has been accused by the United States of “throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, leading to charges of war crimes and providing support to terrorism.” That, of course, is what the Bush administration is officially stating, the truth (…)

  • Iraq : Classified memo reveals Iraqi prisoners as "starving" By Jason Leopold
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Online Journal Mars 28, 2008
    A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is "so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
    “The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, (…)

  • Sen. Lieberman Says Waterboarding Won’t Really Hurt You!
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Hughes
    “The healthy man does not torture others.” - Carl G. Jung
    “Turncoat Joe” Lieberman is full of surprises. The other day, Feb. 14, 2008, the hawkish U.S. Senator from Connecticut said that waterboarding “is not torture!” He added, however, that it should be permitted “only under the most extreme circumstances” Well, let’s see... personally, I don’t like Barbara “BaWa” Walters. She gets on my nerves, whining so much about everything. I wouldn’t mind seeing her (…)

  • Leaked rules detail rewards and penalties at Guantánamo
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ewen MacAskill
    The inner workings of the Guantánamo detention camp, ranging from items allowed in cells to how many witnesses should be present for cavity searches, have been revealed in a Pentagon manual leaked on the internet.
    The manual covers almost every aspect of life at the base, from arrival to burial - with a graphic showing how Muslims should be buried.
    Although the manual dates from 2003, the year after the camp at the US navy base in Cuba opened and before some changes (…)

  • Red Cross Monitors Barred From Guantánamo
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By WILLIAM GLABERSON
    A confidential 2003 manual for operating the Guantánamo detention center shows that military officials had a policy of denying detainees access to independent monitors from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
    The manual said one goal was to “exploit the disorientation and disorganization felt by a newly arrived detainee,” by denying access to the Koran and by preventing visits with Red Cross representatives, who have a long history of monitoring the (…)

  • Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ryan Singel
    A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002.
    A detail from the "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" manual shows a camp layout at the Guantánamo Bay military detention facility. Image: Wikileaks.org
    The 238-page (…)

  • Guantanimo, Iraq
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi women prisoners languish in jail without trial.
    A visit to a women prison in a Baghdad neighborhood has revealed that Iraqi authorities are paying lip service to human rights and rule of law.
    The visit by Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi found the jail over crowded with many women afflicted with contagious diseases due to lack of medicine and medical care.
    "The tour has exposed a difficult and tragic situation in the whole process, starting with detention and ending with the (…)

  • US forces torture Press TV reporter
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press TV correspondent in Afghanistan, Fayez Khurshid has said that he was tortured by US forces after his illegal detention last night.
    According to Khurshid, foreign soldiers stopped him on the way home, grabbed him by the collar and asked if he was a member of the IRGC (The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) and worked for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    The Afghan journalist was rendered unconscious by a taser and taken to a US base where the officers in charge of (…)

  • UNICOR,When Prisoners Work the System Works
    1 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UNICOR, When Prisoners Work the System Works By David Glenn Cox
    "Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "work brings freedom" or "work shall set you free/will free you" or "work liberates" and, literally in English, "work makes free". It became the unofficial slogan of Nazi concentration camps, as the prisoners would enter the camp they would see the wrought iron sign over head and would savor its (…)