Who is Guilty of Prison Torture?
by
Dale Allen Pfeiffer

Certainly the United States possesses formidable economic and military power. But the rhetoric of "sole surviving superpower" is inflated and a bit desperate. Our military is overextended and poorly run. The hard power of its amazing machinery is used to squander the soft power of our global prestige - we shoot civilians and they hate us. We attack only the most defenseless opponents and have little tolerance for casualties...

read further under:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052404_daf_prison.html

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Abu Ghraib Means Impunity
http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=171&language_id=1

Informant: tworevs

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Continuing the Cover-Up?

Military Takes Action Against Key Witness in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal

By Brian Ross and Alexandra Salomon

May 21, 2004 — A witness who told ABCNEWS he believed the military was covering up the extent of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was today stripped of his security clearance and told he may face prosecution because his comments were "not in the national interest."

Read further under:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/abu_ghraib_cover_up_040521-1.html


Informant: Michael Novick

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What have we done?

The horrific images from Abu Ghraib have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but what do they really tell us about America? Are they simply the work of a few rogue soldiers, or the result of the new foreign and domestic policies of the Bush administration, which find ready approval in an increasingly brutalised society? Susan Sontag on the ugly face of the war on terror...read under:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1223344,00.html


Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Reflects America's Hatred
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1423.shtml

Informant: Walter Lippmann

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US Tries to Get Off the Hook on War Crimes
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83714:740526

New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83721:740526

Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83716:740526

New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83721:740526

Soldier: Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse "Normal"
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83724:740526

Shocking Details on Abuse of Reuters Staffers in Iraq
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83725:740526

The Religious Warrior of Abu Ghraib
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=83726:740526

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Those Missing Taguba Pages: More Dirty Tricks on the Road
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Nimmo0524.htm

Double Standards?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5032094/site/newsweek/

Professor Denounced for POW Memo for Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4121975,00.html

Top General Witnessed Prison Abuse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6236.htm

New allegations of systematic abuse of Iraqis by British troops
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=524032

Video From Abu Ghraib Prison
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6223.htm

Videos Amplify Picture of Violence
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6224.htm

Photo Gallery
http://tinyurl.com/29sl7

New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43783-2004May20.html

Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6229.htm

New front in Iraq detainee abuse scandal?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5024068/

Trail of blood
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6226.htm

Iraqis lose right to sue troops over war crimes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6238.htm

How fascism starts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6227.htm

GI: Boy mistreated to get dad to talk
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6222.htm

A world watches our shame
http://www.duckdaotsu.org/world_watches.html


From Information Clearing House

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The word you're looking for is "lies"

by Erica Verrillo,

Letter to the editor, The Boston Globe

May 12, 2004

The Bush administration seems to have a serious problem with reality.

The most recent reality challenge is the policy of torture in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which the administration is frantically redefining as "abuse," "excesses," and "humiliation." We even have Secretary Rumsfeld describing footage of several American soldiers "having sex" with a female Iraqi prisoner.

Let's have a little plain English here. "Having sex" with a prisoner is known as "rape." Systematic beatings are called "torture." Excesses that lead to death are called "murder." The hundreds of women and children in mass graves in Fallujah are the product of a "massacre." Taken together, all of these add up to "atrocities."

The dissemination of "incomplete information" from "imperfect intelligence" is called "lies."

The billions of dollars that Halliburton and Bechtel have reaped in profits are called "war profiteering."

The invasion of Iraq is called "illegal."

The destruction of America's international standing is called "permanent."

And Texaco/Phillips's high bid for Iraqi oil is called "why we are in Iraq."


Log of lies from the Bush Administration

http://www.unknownnews.net/logoflies.html#may04



Informant: vInCe-BrAdLeY

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More Photos Of US Brutality

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/690595.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/690566.cms


Informant: Harry Mobley

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