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Folter- Torture

Colombia Journal

It was hard to see the photos of the torture in Iraq because I too was tortured. I saw myself naked with my feet fastened together and my hands tied behind my back. I saw my own head covered with a cloth bag. I remembered my feelings - the humiliation, pain....

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=news.display_archives&mode=current_opinion&article=CO_040609_mondragon
http://tinyurl.com/2kogt

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Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:41

Iraq dog use 'ordered by US intelligence'

A military intelligence interrogator also told investigators that two dog handlers at the prison were "having a contest" to see how many detainees they could make involuntarily urinate out of fear of the dogs...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1BC56B64-8101-4B14-9AA0-A66339D485CE.htm

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Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:38

Ashcroft revives the fine art of stonewalling

The memos, which originated in part from your Justice Department, appear to redefine torture, discount the Geneva Conventions and try to widen presidential powers in wartime. They already have been leaked to the press...

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/elizabeth_sullivan/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fopinion%2F1086859905169782.xml
http://tinyurl.com/35e5x

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Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:20

Rumsfeld 'told officers to take gloves off with Lindh'

John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, was stripped naked and tied to a stretcher during interrogation after the office of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered intelligence officers to "take the gloves off" when questioning him...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=529921

Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:18

The torturers among us

It is unambiguously clear that the torture of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo, and at Abu Ghraib was official policy.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/06/09/the_torturers_among_us/
http://tinyurl.com/2tp9q
http://tinyurl.com/6m2uv

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Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:12

An American in The Hague?

If American officials are not held legally accountable, the damage abroad could be severe. Part of the terrible legacy of Abu Ghraib may be that the United States will find it difficult to prosecute foreign war criminals if it refuses to accept for itself the legal standards it accuses them of breaking...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6301.htm

Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:10