by Elaine Cassel

CounterPunch

03/08/05

If Abu Ali's case does end in a plea agreement -- or, worse, in a precedent blessing this prosecution as constitutional -- Americans' rights will have been very significantly diminished. Such a result will mean that this nightmare is viewed as an entirely legal reality: The U.S. can work with a foreign government to arrest and imprison a U.S. citizen and torture him. It can allow the imprisonment to go on indefinitely; Abu Ali's took over twenty months...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel03082005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Experts say prisoner abuses, war in Iraq undermine effectiveness of State Department human rights report.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0307/dailyUpdate.html

There's no justification for kicking an enemy [POW] when he’s wounded on the ground in front of you and about to die”.

by Ghali Hassan

A recently released army documents detail ongoing sadistic abuse, torture and murder of Iraqi Prisoners of War (POW) and Iraqi detainees by US and British forces in occupied Iraq.

http://207.44.245.159/article8215.htm
http://207.44.245.159/article3943.htm

http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dc5a37ba4d.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/politics/06intel.html?ei=5070&en=1fdbe36f41fb9563&ex=1110690000&pagewanted=print&position=
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1115339.htm


Shanti Renfrew

This article should have received much wider attention, rather than burial on page A15 of the Washington Post. The article confirms how the Bush Administration, the Department of Defense, and senior military leaders keep sending the wrong message to U.S. soldiers, U.S. citizens, Iraqi citizens, and the world by tolerating and hiding the widespread torture of enemy prisoners of war. The article below describes the terrible fallout from the Bush-Rumsfeld-Gonzales-Chertoff pro-torture policy.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2925