by Nat Hentoff

Village Voice

07/23/04

We already know, thanks to a low-level whistle-blower, soldier-specialist Joseph Darby, of egregious violations of American and international law at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But we have no idea what is happening to the huge number of ghost prisoners for whom no American captors are accountable. They all have disappeared...

While Congress and our courts ignore our own ghost prisoners, the Associated Press reported on July 13: 'The International Red Cross ... fears U.S. officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world. The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give the Red Cross access to
prisoners of war and other detainees...

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0430/hentoff.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The authors of this 300-page whitewash say they found no 'systemic' problem - even though there were 94 documented cases of prisoner abuse, including some 40 deaths, 20 of them homicides...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1161215.htm


From Information Clearing House

Teaching Torture: Congress Quietly Keeps

by Doug Ireland

School of the Americas Alive

Remember how congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle deplored the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib as "un-American"? Last Thursday, however, the House quietly passed a renewed appropriation that keeps open the U.S.'s most infamous torture-teaching institution, known as the School of the Americas (SOA), where the illegal physical and psychological abuse of prisoners of the kind the world condemned at Abu Ghraib and worse has been routinely taught for years....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Ireland0724.htm

Laurie Calhoun on the government as moral judge...
http://www.newpartisan.com/display/ShowJournalEntry?moduleId=4763&entryId=34069


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views04/0722-11.htm


Informant: Chris

The ringleader of three Americans on trial for torturing Afghans at a private jail in a freelance counter-terror mission denies any wrongdoing and claims they had active support from the US Defence Department...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/22/1090464788496.html


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military has found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan...

http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRISONER_ABUSE?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

http://tinyurl.com/6eumo

Nagem Salam interviewed a former Abu Ghraib female detainee who was arrested by US forces on September 14, 2003 and detained in Ba'qouba, Tikrit, Abu Ghraib and the Tesfirat transfer station.

http://www.islamonline.net/english/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2004/06/article_04.shtml


From Information Clearing House