Newly Released Army Documents Detail Ongoing Abuse of Detainees by U.S. Forces:

"Ramadi Madness" DVD of Abuses Was Destroyed by Soldiers Under Investigation...

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17652&c=206


From Information Clearing House

Another Guantanamo Scandal? -- Three Officers Suspended

While this may not be another torture scandal, the fact three officers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were suspended by the general in charge of the prisoner of war camp ought to raise more than a few eyebrows. This news raises even more questions because the Department of Defense released it on Friday evening, the best method to kill an unfavorable news item in Washington.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2920

In the end it was another sad reminder of the heavy price the United States has paid for ignoring fundamental human rights in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo;

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/03/opinion/edrights.html
http://tinyurl.com/3urwn


From Information Clearing House

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America's reputation.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2906

A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth?:

Our former ambassador to Uzbekistan refuses to go quietly. The Government should come clean about interrogation methods, he tells Raymond Whitaker

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/articles/Independent%2020%20Feb%202005.htm


From Information Clearing House

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America's reputation.

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17584&c=206


From Information Clearing House

by AL Kennedy

Abdul Wali, he's dead now. He died after being interrogated by a CIA contractor in Afghanistan, but so what? Then there's Zaydun al-Samarrai. He's dead now. His cousin Marwan Hassoun is upset about this, but you can be sure he's overreacting - after all Sgt Tracy Perkins, one of the people who drowned al-Samarrai in the Tigris, was only given a six-month sentence, so it can't have been a big deal.

http://207.44.245.159/article8189.htm