Torture in Iraq still routine, report says:

Twenty months after Saddam Hussein's government was toppled and its torture chambers unlocked, Iraqis are again being routinely beaten, hung by their wrists and shocked with electrical wires, according to a report by a human rights organization.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6863916/


From Information Clearing House

Investigative files released today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggest that the Army failed to aggressively investigate allegations of detainee abuse. Some of the investigations concern serious allegations of torture including electric shocks, forced sodomy and severe physical beatings.

http://207.44.245.159/article7816.htm

Mary Shaw: Torture is a Problem, Not a Solution:

How can we possibly justify the risk of torturing innocent suspects, as we've seen happen at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere?

http://207.44.245.159/article7813.htm

Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency and other nonmilitary personnel fall outside the bounds of a 2002 directive issued by President George W. Bush that pledged the humane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel, said in a document. In written responses to questions posed by senators as part of their consideration of his nomination to be attorney general, Gonzales also said a separate congressional ban on cruel, unusual and inhumane treatment had "a limited reach" and did not apply in all cases to "aliens overseas."

That position has clear implications for prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq, legal analysts said.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/gonzales_excludes_cia_from_prisoner_rules.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 24th, 2005

Eleven Kuwaiti prisoners held by American forces at the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base show signs of poor diet and physical and psychological abuse, and are held in conditions "worse than those for the worst convicted murderers or rapists in the United States,".

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/today/localNews_s3.php


From Information Clearing House

There is no reason to doubt that torture has been systemic and pervasive, or that authorization can be traced up the chain of command, or that this has seriously damaged not only the immediate victims but also our national institutions and America's image abroad. Yet top officials in the Bush Administration are still doing what torturing regimes do: denying the facts and blaming "rogue" officers.

http://snipurl.com/c73x


From Information Clearing House

Wieder einmal sorgen Fotos für Aufmerksamkeit, für Unruhe könnte kurz vor den Wahlen auch sorgen, dass der irakische Regierungschef kaltblütig Aufständische erschossen haben soll...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19270/1.html

USA: Unabhängige Untersuchung der Folterskandale von Bush gefordert (20.01.05)

In einem ausführlichen Schreiben hat amnesty international (ai) den US-Präsidenten anlässlich seiner zweiten Amtseinführung an seine Worte vom 26. Juni 2003 erinnert: "Überall, wo sie vorkommt, tritt Folter die Menschenwürde mit Füßen. Wir wollen eine Welt errichten, in der Menschenrechte respektiert und durch das Gesetz geschützt werden .... Die USA bekennen sich zur Abschaffung der Folter weltweit und wir führen diesen Kampf durch unser Beispiel an."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.jpberlin.de/www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10229