Luke Harding / The Guardian

Iraq's Human Rights Minister Abdel Bassat Turki resigned last month in protest. In an interview with London's Guardian he explains his move was prompted by Paul Bremer's failure to halt rampant abuse in US military prisons. Turki said he informed Mr. Bremer last November -- and again in December. "He listened very well. But that was all he did," Turki stated...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85054:740526

President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should take the witness stand at the trial of a U.S. soldier charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq, the soldier's lawyer said on Monday...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5471810


From Information Clearing House

Death certificates by Iraqi doctor claim evidence of torture...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1243712,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Zeitung:

Soldat in Heidelberg spricht von dutzenden Tätern

Stuttgart - Im Skandal um die Misshandlungen irakischer Gefangener hat ein in Heidelberg stationierter US-Soldat der Armee seines Landes Vertuschung vorgeworfen. Zugleich widersprach US-Unteroffizier Samuel Provance im Gespräch mit der "Stuttgarter Zeitung" (Dienstagsausgabe) Behauptungen der US-Regierung, die Misshandlungen im irakischen Gefängnis Abu Ghraib seien Einzelfälle. In seiner Einheit, dem in Heidelberg stationierten 302. Bataillon des Militärnachrichtendienstes, gebe es zahlreiche Soldaten, die in Abu Ghraib gewesen, aber nicht befragt worden seien. Provance sagt der Zeitung, es gebe dutzende weiterer Täter. (AFP)

http://www.netscape.de/index.jsp?sg=News_Newsticker&cid=832446369

21.06.04, 20:45 Uhr

Military judge: Abu Ghraib a crime scene

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5259200/


Informant: kevcross5

A group of more than 450 professors of law, international relations, and public policy, today sent a letter calling on Congress to hold accountable, through impeachment and removal if appropriate, civilian officials from the top of the Executive Branch on down for policies developed at high levels that have facilitated the recent abuses at Abu Ghraib...

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2004/06/16_congressletter.php

Newly unearthed, once-classified documents remind us that Abu Ghraib is hardly the first time that torture became policy. Those who have studied techniques that American interrogators taught and used in Vietnam, Latin America, and elsewhere during past decades felt only a grim sense of recognition...

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7829

New Sexual Abuse Charges

Classified sections of the military's prisoner abuse report detail sexual assaults on women detainees...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6354.htm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=3&u=/nm/20040619/wl_nm/un_court_usa_dc_12


Informant: kevcross5

06/12/04

The photographs of torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison have shocked the world. They shocked you as well, as you clearly expressed by saying, 'Such practices do not reflect our values.' I agree. Such practices appear to be more widespread than one prison in Iraq, however. Prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay have also told stories of torture, deprivation, and humiliation to which no human being should ever be subjected, certainly not at the hands of the United States, the world's moral leader. And more horrific accounts surface every day...

http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/tle275-20040613-08.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp