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Four Years Later: Why Did It Take So Long for the Press to Break Abu Ghraib
2008-05-11 11:37:00 Sudhan @11:35 CET Charles J. Hanley, Pulitzer winner for the Associated Press, uncovered abuses at the infamous prison months before the scandal really exploded. Why were so many others so slow to act? By Greg Mitchell | Editor & Publisher, May 8, 2008 Four years ago this month, as May unfolded, each day brought fresh horrors, images, or details about the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq. Pictures of shackled and hooded prisoners gave way to detainees on leashes, cowering before snarling dogs, or just plain beaten and bruised. On May 10, 2004, an Iraqi human rights official charged that American overseer Paul Bremer had been repeatedly informed about abuses at Abu Ghraib. The New Yorker revealed that Donald Rumsfeld personally okayed a set of procedures that led to the abuses. Several major newspapers called for Rumsfeld to quit.At that time, in a column, I disclosed how Pulitzer-winning correspondent Charles J. Hanley at The Associated Press had actually “broken” the Abu Gh...
By: Suzie-Q
Abu Ghraib ex-detainee files ?torture? lawsuit against US military contract
2008-05-06 18:39:00 More idiocy. This is what we are breeding–the day when a terrorist can sue because he didn’t like the way he was treated. A former Iraqi detainee filed a lawsuit against two private US military contractors Monday alleging that he was tortured tortured while held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, according to ...
By: Euphoric Reality
US contractors accused in Abu Ghraib torture suit
2008-05-06 10:07:00 Employees from US military contractors helped torture Iraqi civilians detained at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Monday. Lawyers for Emad Al-Janabi said the 43-year-old blacksmith and other prisoners were subjected to months of abuse while being held at the notorious Baghdad jail following his arrest in September 2003. Al-Janabi was later released without charge in July 2004. According to the lawsuit, Al-Janabi was subjected to physical and mental torture which included being shown a mock execution of his brother and nephew, being repeatedly deprived of food and sleep and threatened with dogs. The lawsuit is lodged against defense contractors CACI International Inc, CACI Premier Technology, L-3 Communications Titan Corporation, and former CACI contractor Stephen Stefanowicz. The complaint alleges that CACI provided interrogators used at Abu Ghraib and that Titan Corp, now owned by L-3, employed translators at the det...
By: Circle of 13
McCain Deserves Respect from ALL Americans for His Service
2008-03-20 23:23:00 OK, so I was on reddit and got in a debate with some Ron Paul supporter named Private_Freedom (warning - that link goes straight to his profile where he has posted some disgusting and perverted comments) who criticized McCain for serving his country: Here’s the original conversation (edited for swearing), also available here (my posts ...
Sabrina Harman, Abu Ghraib Photographer
2008-03-20 15:57:00 In some ways, it feels fun to me to talk about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton because, all inter-party jabbing aside, they are both about hope and both about a better future. It’s fundamentally a question of what flavor of hope suits your particular fancy, and that fancy can be liberal or conservative, as indicated ...
By: Kmareka.com
Sunni Attacks Rise In Abu Ghraib Area
2008-03-02 07:59:00 There has been a modest but ever increasing rise in the number of attacks on U.S. troops in the Abu Ghraib area of Iraq. Although al-Qaeda has been driven away, a large Sunni resistance remains and is active. Many Sunnis have joined Sons of Iraq, an American sponsored group which is paid to maintain law ...
New Abu Ghraib Torture Photos
2008-02-28 23:23:00 WARNING: Nudity & Graphic Images Disturbing new photos have been posted on Wired with accompanying video from a lecture on Abu Ghraib by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. The interview article, How People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib, provides a fascinating look into human psychology. For ease of viewing the photos ...
By: Garling Gauge
Broadcast Exclusive: Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Samuel Provance Speaks Out on
2008-01-28 16:03:00 DemocracyNow! In a national TV broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with Abu Ghraib whistleblower and former Army sergeant, Samuel Provance. From September 2003 to the spring of 2004, Provance ran the top-secret computer network used by Military Intelligence at Abu Ghraib. He was the first intelligence specialist to speak openly about abuse at the prison ...
By: Current Era Blog
Abu Ghraib Probe Bungled Claim Rights Activists
2008-01-12 16:22:00 The decision of the US military to throw out the only conviction of an officer for misbeavior in the Abu Ghraib scandal has raised the level of criticism by human rights advocates regarding the failure of the military to conduct a fair investigation. Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, whose conviction was overthrown, admitted many officers and ...
Torture is a Moral Issue
2007-11-15 17:26:00 In living our lives of, “what’s for dinner?” , “who’s picking up the boys from practice?” and “it costs that much!?”, we let issues that we normally take a stand on, drift off our radar. Unfortunately some of these issues, and images, just will not go away. Recently, a military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of ...
CONFRONTation Art Exhibit Opens in Washington DC
2007-11-07 15:46:00 Three floors of artwork exploring connected themes around protest and confrontation are on exhibit at Washington's Katzen Art Centre. From DCist: In an audacious presentation of political and protest art, the Katzen Arts Center?s Art of CONFRONTation showcases three separate exhibitions that share a confident outspokenness. Whether it?s the poignant reenactments of torture of Abu Ghraib by Fernando Botero, or the surreal depictions of the city-dominated human condition by Irving Norman in Dark Metropolis, or the multifaceted collection of some of the 1970s most important feminist art in Claiming Space, these works are united by a passionate and irrepressible yearning to speak and be heard. Despite their similarities, each exhibit has its own floor in the Katzen Arts Center?whose curved walls and pointed hallways make it a perfect venue for such a dynamic collection?so viewers are able to see each one independent of the others. Read the whole article here. Visit the Centre's we...
CONFRONTation Art Exhibit Opens in Washington DC
2007-11-07 15:46:00 Three floors of artwork exploring connected themes around protest and confrontation are on exhibit at Washington's Katzen Art Centre. From DCist: In an audacious presentation of political and protest art, the Katzen Arts Center???s Art of CONFRONTation showcases three separate exhibitions that share a confident outspokenness. Whether it???s the poignant reenactments of torture of Abu Ghraib by Fernando Botero, or the surreal depictions of the city-dominated human condition by Irving Norman in Dark Metropolis, or the multifaceted collection of some of the 1970s most important feminist art in Claiming Space, these works are united by a passionate and irrepressible yearning to speak and be heard. Despite their similarities, each exhibit has its own floor in the Katzen Arts Center???whose curved walls and pointed hallways make it a perfect venue for such a dynamic collection???so viewers are able to see each one independent of the others. Read the whole article here. Visit the Cent...
Botero retrata la tortura en Abu Ghraib...
2007-11-07 01:41:00 Botero retrata la tortura en Abu Ghraib(PD/EFE).- El artista plástico colombiano Fernando Botero, ha realizado 79 obras sobre la tortura a prisioneros en Abu Ghraib que expone en el museo de la American University en Washington DC. Botero ha declarado que el motivo de la realización de estas obras no es otro que el de "sacarse la rabia" ante una conducta "inaceptable" del Gobierno estadounidense.Botero, de 78 años, se encuentra en Washington para la apertura en el Museo de Arte de American University este martes de su exposición sobre las atrocidades cometidas en la cárcel iraquí de Abu Ghraib que, aseguró, le causaron mucha "rabia".En una rueda de prensa, Botero explicó que realizó esas obras en 2005 "para que el público las mire", en especial el público con conciencia política, pero destacó que prefiere no meterse en temas políticos porque, a su juicio, el artista "debe mantenerse fiel a las ideas de estética".Tienes que ser fiel a la pintura antes que a cualquier o...
By: platofotografico
New Review: The Sutras of Abu Ghraib
2007-10-30 17:45:00 thinkBuddha reviews Aidan Delgado’s book, The Sutras of Abu Ghraib.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
2007-10-24 20:35:00 I watched Ghosts of Abu Ghraib on Monday at U.C. Berkeley. Nida told me about this documentary and it sounded like another eye-opener and it certainly was. As you can guess by the title of this documentary, it’s about the prison abuse that took place in the city of Abu Ghraib in Iraq. When the prison ...
By: MyLifeDump
"The Sutras of Abu Ghraib" By Aidan Delgado
2007-10-10 12:15:00 Note: I have yet to read the book. The author was at Abu Ghraib before the allegations of torture and abuses came into the open and his experiences there and in Iraq have left him disenchanted with the war. He became a conscientious objector and was granted an honorable discharge.He wrote the book after watching the political situation on the home front so as to lend his voice to those against the war. Hat tip to Iraq Today, the best website around on the Iraq War.On the morning of September 11th 2001, I enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. As I signed my contract, everyone was suddenly distracted by something on the television. My recruiter told me to get up and come see what happened. The disaster unfolded.Yet I, as a nave eighteen year old dissatisfied with my first year of college, felt myself filling with moral certainty and righteousness: "I enlisted before it happened. The homeland is under attack. This is the reason we have a military.I never considered that what hap...
By: Robert Lindsay
Worse than Abu Ghraib?
2007-09-27 17:12:00 Will it be Blackwater that gets us out of Iraq?Blackwater Tops All Firms in Iraq in Shooting Rate The American security contractor Blackwater USA has been involved in a far higher rate of shootings while guarding American diplomats in Iraq than other security firms providing similar services to the State Department, according to Bush administration officials and industry officials.Blackwater is now the focus of investigations in both Baghdad and Washington over a Sept. 16 shooting in which at least 11 Iraqis were killed. Beyond that episode, the company has been involved in cases in which its personnel fired weapons while guarding State Department officials in Iraq at least twice as often per convoy mission as security guards working for other American security firms, the officials said.And it's not just the Iraqi's who are upset it's the military as well.Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at OddsContractors in Iraq Fuel Debate BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 -- A confrontation between ...
US Military Official: Blackwater May Be Worse Than Abu Ghraib
2007-09-26 20:44:00 AlterNet: Blogs To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation. A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to U.S. military and government officials. In high-level meetings over the past several days, U.S. military officials have pressed State Department officials to assert more control over Blackwater, which operates under the department's authority, said a U.S. government official with knowledge of the ...
Junior ranks take flak for Abu Ghraib
2007-08-30 16:48:00 The acquittal of a US army colonel on charges relating to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib means no officers have been foundcriminally guilty. The episode stained the reputation of the US military and may well have acted as a recruiting agent for insurgents. The officer, Lt-Col Steven Jordan, was found not guilty by a ...
By: The Hot Joints
Abu Ghraib Court Martial
2007-08-23 13:13:00 Lt. Col. Steven Jordan is being court-martialed for dereliction of duty in the Abu Ghraib prison where prisoners were abused by guards. Col. Jordan argues he was not responsible for the MPs who committed the actions and had nothing to do with use of dogs against prisoners. Michael Eckroth, one of the interrogators said Jordan ...
L'Abu Ghraib dipinta da Botero e quella vissuta da un italiano rinchiuso in
2007-08-21 23:59:00 "Credo che la gente non si aspettasse che il paese più ricco del mondo facesse queste torture come facevano 10 secoli fa con una perversione totale". (Fernando Botero) Dopo aver segnalato una mostra assolutamente da boicottare, eccone un'altra imperdibile: http://www.mostrabotero.it/ L'abu Ghraib di Botero è sena dubbio la miglior risposta dell'arte come guerrilla alla sottaciuta depravazione di un occidente che fa della tortura la sua democrazia da esportare. vedi altre immagini L'abu Ghraib di Abou Elkassim Britel è invece la drammatica vicenda di un italiano che nel maggio 2002 ammanettato, incappucciato, denudato, vestito di un pannolino, incatenato fu trasferito dalla CIA dal Pakistan in Marocco dove fu torturato da agenti dell'intelligence marocchina e dove ora è in carcere. Nel maggio 2003, liberato senza accuse, dopo una lunga e dura detenzione in segreto, al momento di rientrare in Italia, fu di nuovo rapito e fatto spari...
By: guerrilla radio
US colonel tried over Abu Ghraib
2007-08-21 20:30:00 A military prosecutor today said the army officer who was in charge of the US interrogation centre at Abu Ghraib prison was a failed leader whose errors had set the stage for abuses.
By: Get rich
US colonel tried over Abu Ghraib
2007-08-21 20:30:00 A military prosecutor today said the army officer who was in charge of the US interrogation centre at Abu Ghraib prison was a failed leader whose errors had set the stage for abuses.
By: Get rich
Two Abu Ghraib Charges Dropped
2007-08-21 06:27:00 Military prosecutors dropped two charges against Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan yesterday, hours before his court-martial for allegedly abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was set to begin at Fort Meade.
By: Get rich
Two Abu Ghraib Charges Dropped
2007-08-21 06:27:00 Military prosecutors dropped two charges against Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan yesterday, hours before his court-martial for allegedly abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was set to begin at Fort Meade.
By: Get rich
2 charges dropped against Abu Ghraib officer
2007-08-20 21:31:00 FORT MEADE, Maryland (CNN) — Two charges were dropped Monday against Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer among the 12 defendants charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The judge in the case, Col. Stephen Henley, threw out charges dealing with whether Jordan lied to a superior officer. He still faces four other charges. The ...
By: The Hot Joints
The General?s Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib s
2007-06-20 22:04:00 How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. by Seymour M. Hersh
By: Current Era Blog
The General's Report
2007-06-18 03:50:00 MUST READBy Seymour M. HershThe New Yorker"How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties."The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh reports that a general who investigated US troops sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison told Pentagon officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, about the incidents before the scandal became public, but Rumsfeld, and other officials, who told Congress they were unaware about the extent of the abuse, "are lying to protect themselves." Photo: Antonio Taguba knew his report would make him unpopular: "If I lie, I lose. And, if I tell the truth, I lose." (Photo Credit: Mary Ellen Mark / The New Yorker)Technorati tags: The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, Abu Ghraib, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush, Bush Administration, Antonio Taguba, Congress, news
Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and three soldiers
2007-05-28 06:54:00 Right now seven thousand plus US troops are searching for three soldiers captured in an ambush a couple of weeks ago, the body of one of the three has just been found floating in the Euphrates River.How can we decry the brutal treatment of our soldiers when everybody knows their treatment by the enemy is approximately the same as Iraqi nationals get at the hands of Americans?Is there a war crime here? Or only equal treatment?We put Abu Ghraib on Iraqi national television for the whole country to partake of. They know how we treat prisoners in our hands. What argument from us can compel them to give better than equal treatment to our people who fall into their hands?Are the insurgents more cruel and brutal toward American prisoners or only equally cruel and brutal as they know Americans are toward their Iraqi prisoners? Which we showed them on their TVs. Which one's brutal action is more brutal or less brutal than the action of the other?Recently two men, Charles Krulac, Commandant ...
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
2007-04-27 23:41:00 To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.View Original Article
By: Munaeem's Blog
TORTURE UNLIMITED | HBO PREMIERES GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB
2007-03-02 20:00:02 By Led Black American exceptional-ism is the notion that the United States, by the virtue of its institutions, history and national credo, is somehow superior to all other nations. American exceptional-ism holds that there are certain things that America just doesn?t engage in. Torture, for example, is considered a despicable tactic that is a fixture of third world regimes and former Soviet gulags but not the US. According to the narrative, the United States is too wholesome and moral to undertake such barbarism. The sadistic and disturbing pictures that made their way out of the Abu Ghraib prison shocked the world and revealed the truth. Abu Ghraib was torture central under Saddam and remained so after the Saddam regime was toppled and America took over. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is a searing documentary that tackles that sordid episode head on. Filmmaker Rory Kennedy pulls no punches and delves deep into that tragic affair interviewing some of the I...
The Brooklyn Abu Ghraib
2006-11-22 03:57:01 [From Politics in the Zeros] 9/11 torture lawsuit heads to federal court One disturbing incident, repeated over and over, is particularly haunting — inmates head-slammed into a wall where the staff had taped a T-shirt with an American flag printed on it. The motto on the shirt proclaimed: “These colors don’t run.” In time, that spot on [...]
By: News for Greens
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