What is needed from Mr Blair is not just a condemnation of individual acts of torture: it is the renunciation of torture as an instrument of policy. That would not just be piety...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1250986,00.html


From Information Clearing House

by Roger Normand

CounterPunch

06/30/04

Each new revelation of torture, abuse, lies and cover-up exposes the American occupation of Iraq as a criminal enterprise masquerading as liberation. There has been much speculation as to whether Washington's neoconservative rulers actually believe the nonsense about freedom and human rights or whether they are driven solely by power and profit. It makes little difference to the people of Iraq.

After 30 years of Western-sponsored domestic tyranny, they must now suffer the brutal depredations of foreign occupation. As the popular Iraqi saying goes, 'the student is gone; the master has come...

http://www.counterpunch.org/normand06302004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The archbishops and bishops of the Church of England have written to the prime minister, Tony Blair, protesting about the behaviour of US-led forces in Iraq, it emerged today...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1250647,00.html


From Information Clearing House

While piously declaring its determination to unearth the truth about Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration has spent nearly two months obstructing investigations by the Army and members of Congress...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6414.htm

The inside story of the official manual on how to torture without being prosecuted...

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0426/hentoff.php


From Information Clearing House

I came across prisoners who signed what they were ordered to sign, only to get what the interrogator promised them. He did not promise them their liberty. He promised them -- if they signed -- uninterrupted sleep!"...

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/28/usint8967.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/062304B.shtml#1


Informant: Planttrees

USA Today

06/27/04

The Justice Department spelled out specific interrogation methods that the CIA could use against top al-Qaeda members in a still-classified August 2002 legal memo, issued as the spy agency pressed terrorism suspects about possible strikes on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, current and former Justice officials said. CIA officials had demanded specific guidance for handling 'high-value al-Qaeda captives,' said a former Justice official who worked on the memo."

http://tinyurl.com/2o4af


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

President Mary McAleese voiced strong concerns over the maltreatment of Iraqi POWs by coalition forces during a private meeting with George Bush yesterday...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1248432,00.html


From Information Clearing House