Former prisoners alleged US marines used the tactic of sexual humiliation, which Baranowska described as similar to that which occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq...

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6709.htm

Americans are refusing to do anything about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners under the regime they appointed...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6710.htm

Richmond Times-Dispatch

08/10/04

The nation's largest lawyers group yesterday condemned the government's handling of foreign detainees. The American Bar Association criticized what it called 'a widespread pattern of abusive detention methods.' Those abuses, it said, 'feed terrorism by painting the United States as an arrogant nation above the law...

http://tinyurl.com/3j3kr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

08/10/04

NBC News has learned a military investigation into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison now implicates military intelligence officers in addition to military police already charged. Pentagon sources tell NBC News the investigation by Maj. Gen. George Fay recommends punitive action, which could include criminal charges against several military intelligence officers who were at least aware of the abuse...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5663747/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/6442


Informant: Dian Davies

VCS Action Alert: Take Action to Prevent Torture

Veterans for Common Sense

Posted 8/9/2004 7:43:00 PM

Veterans for Common Sense is committed to honoring the Geneva conventions and international law which prohibit torture. Unfortunately, a team of lawyers for the administration is determined to circumvent U.S. obligations under international law by redefining the meaning of torture. In a 50-page memo, they claimed that (under their definition of torture) the President has the authority to order torture whenever he feels it is necessary...

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1868

From Attica to Abu Ghraib -- and a Prison Near You
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081004E.shtml

Most recent polls show between 80 percent and 90 percent of Iraqis call Americans not liberators, but occupiers. And by a clear majority, Iraqis want Americans to leave the country as soon as possible. How did America lose the Iraqis' support? For many Iraqis, the answer is Abu Ghraib...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6667.htm

http://www.iht.com/articles/533124.html


Informant: Elvis Oner

Sergeant Hydrue Joyner, a member of England's 372nd Military Police Company, called Abu Ghraib hell and said he considered it a highly dangerous place when he arrived in October because "the whole prison system was corrupt."

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina: Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was hell, a dangerous place staffed by poorly trained guards and short on such basics as soap and men's underwear for inmates, a US soldier testified yesterday.

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=88689&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27140


Source: Aftermath News Service
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