US-backed Kurdish police and security units have kidnapped hundreds of minority Arabs and Turkmen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, according to a confidential State Department cable leaked to the Washington Post.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9166.htm

Torture-charged former intelligence officer Annemette Hommel refused to break off interrogations when one of her prisoners wept from pain and begged her permission to change posture, one of Hommel's interpreters said on Thursday.

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/88687.html


From Information Clearing House

Ginter said he was kicked, his head bounced off the pavement and his testicle squeezed by a guard during his detention. "I was more worried about my life from the (U.S.) military than from the insurgents," he told The Associated Press.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9167.htm

Video and transcript.

Philippe Sands, QC, director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, said Mr Howard, along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face charges amid claims the Iraq war was illegal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9171.htm

06/17/05

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of 'internationally reviled' napalm-type firebombs in Iraq. Yesterday's disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election. Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq. But Mr Ingram admitted to the Labour MP Harry Cohen in a private letter obtained by The Independent that he had inadvertently misled Parliament because he had been misinformed by the US...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=647397

from Independent [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Report says U.S. troops forced four drivers to wipe human excrement in each other's faces, detained a dozen drivers in toilets for 12 hours and broke the windows of their cars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9149.htm

posted 06/15/05

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) requested attendance of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to defend their decision to wage war in Iraq. Bush is likely to treat the WTI the same way he treated the millions of Iraq war protestors around the world -- with contempt. Events like the WTI would be more effective if they addressed the American public.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20121850&url_num=63&url=http://www.fpif.org/papers/0506haltbush.html

06/14/05

The mainstream media in the US are increasingly reporting on pessimism in high places in the US military over ever 'winning' in Iraq. Even the Pentagon's news roundup is gloomy. No surprise, then, that Americans, too, are having serious second thoughts...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF15Ak03.html

from Asia Times, by Jim Lobe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Current and former diplomats tell NBC News they understood from the beginning the Bush policy to be that Saddam had to be removed — one way or the other. The only question was when and how.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8207731


From Information Clearing House


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