US inmates face threat of worse abuse under scheme to send them to prisons in their own countries.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1435896,00.html


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This whitewash is typical of the reports issued by the Bush administration on the abuse, humiliation, and torture of prisoners at camps run by the military and the Central Intelligence Agency.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/11/opinion/edprison.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ntxy
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/apr05/322451.asp


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Torture: U.S. Army Murdered Two Afghan Prisoners While They Were Chained to Ceiling

Sadly, the New York Times headline says "abuse." What happened was murder. In a case of self-censorship, the New York Times failed to report the murders and torture are authorized at the highest levels of the Bush administration. As corporate news covers the murders in Atlanta, the murders of Afghan and Iraqi civilians are ignored. A threat to justice for anyone is a threat to freedom for everyone.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2970

Two Afghan prisoners who died in American custody in Afghanistan in December 2002 were chained to the ceiling, kicked and beaten by American soldiers in sustained assaults that caused their deaths, according to Army criminal investigative reports that have not yet been made public.

http://207.44.245.159/article8252.htm

The Pentagon is seeking to cut by more than half the population at its detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in part by transferring hundreds of suspected terrorists to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2604566


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MPs: Britain failed to properly investigate reports by its own intelligence officers about the abuse of prisoners in US custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, an influential lawmakers' committee said.

http://tinyurl.com/58f4b


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British intelligence officers sometimes broke the Geneva Convention while interrogating terror suspects held overseas in controversial US-run prisons, MPs warned today.

http://207.44.245.159/article8239.htm

Democrats on Thursday lambasted a Pentagon investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib and other US military prisons, which found that no Pentagon policy was responsible for abusive treatment of prisoners.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0dc91e80-9191-11d9-8a7a-00000e2511c8.html
http://tinyurl.com/4jzw2


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Pentagon not to blame for abuse:

The report resisted faulting senior military and civilian commanders for the abuse, although it acknowledges they failed to take swift action when torture allegations first came to light.

http://about.upi.com/products/perspectives/UPI-20050310-064724-7595R


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