New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/13/wguan13.xml


From Information Clearing House

Walter Pincus / Washington Post

(June 13, 2004) -- A 40-year-old CIA handbook on coercive interrogation methods produced during the Vietnam War, shows that techniques such as those used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a long history with US intelligence services. Declassified 10 years ago, the training manual carries in its title the code word used for the CIA in Vietnam, "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation -- July 1963." Used to train new interrogators, the handbook presents "basic information about coercive techniques available for use in the interrogation situation."...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=84784:740526

Edward Alden / Financial Times

(June 10, 2004) -- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale University's law school and a former US assistant secretary of state, went to Geneva in 2000 to present the first US report on its compliance with the UN 1994 Convention against Torture. This week's revelations that Bush administration had sought to find legal justifications for torturing terrorist detainees have left him dumbfounded. "They are blatantly wrong," he says. "It's just erroneous legal analysis. The notion that the president has the constitutional power to permit torture is like saying he has the constitutional power to commit genocide."...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=84783:740526

by John Stanton and Wayne Madsen

The U.S. Army has employed as many as 27 contractors to run its interrogation operations, according to media reports. But while CACI and Titan are getting all the mainstream media play, it appears that far more than 27 contract employees were involved in recruiting and placing interrogators in various locations. Some of the firms involved in the Bush administration’s “TortureGate” include an odd assortment of telecommunications companies and executive placement firms that have jumped into the lucrative torture business in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq and at secret locations throughout Central Asia and North Africa....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Stanton-Madsen0614.htm

The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an "invisible" network of prisons and detention centres into which thousands of suspects have disappeared without trace since the "war on terror" began...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1237650,00.html


From Information Clearing House

In plain language, what the Pentagon report authors argued was that, in time of war, the president could order those under his command to torture America's enemies...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/13/1087065030070.html


From Informatin Clearing House

A detailed medical file passed to The Independent on Sunday has revealed that an Iraqi civilian was so severely beaten about the body by British troops that it caused his kidneys to fail...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=530972


From Information Clearing House

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

06/14/04

The fallback position of the administration and its media amen corner has so far been that the Abu Ghraib atrocities were the exception, the work of a few isolated individuals, and in no way representative of American policy regarding the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. But this is becoming untenable in the face of new revelations, including the news that the White House requested specific intelligence from Abu Ghraib. Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, one of four individuals held chiefly responsible for the Abu Ghraib prison-house of horrors, told Army investigators that the White House had requested information related to 'very sensitive issues.' The White House spin machine argues that Jordan's testimony is so 'broadly stated' as to be practically meaningless. Good try, but this defense is already unraveling ..."

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2811


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/061304A.shtml


Informant: Di

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1237176,00.html


Informant: Dian Davies