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Zionist settler beats 90-year-old Palestinian woman, her grandson

by RAINman on 25. May, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Palestinian Information Center May 19, 2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Zionist settler Yitzhak Hircovich assaulted 90-year-old Palestinian woman Sheeha Ali in the tent she has pitched after he took her own house in Beit Safafa village south of occupied Jerusalem in mid April.
Sheeha said that the settler insulted her then kicked and beat her then [...]

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Britain faces payout shame as hundreds of detainees claim soldiers abused them

by RAINman on 05. May, 2010 in General

Alice Fordham in Basra
Times Online – 3 May 2010
The cash-strapped Ministry of Defence faces the prospect of further compensation payouts as hundreds of Iraqis held in British custody file complaints of abuse, described to The Times by former detainees.

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CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison

by RAINman on 02. Jul, 2009 in General

By Sherwood Ross
Sherwood Ross formerly reported for major dailies and wire services. To contact him or contribute to his Anti-War News Service: sherwoodr1@yahoo.com
INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
“The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had [...]

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THE BEEB INVESTIGATES BAGRAM

by RAINman on 29. Jun, 2009 in General

“Even Guantánamo Bay is better than this”
By William Fisher   URUKNET.INFO

Three brothers of Dilawar, who died in US custody 18 months ago, pray at his grave in Yaqubi, Afghanistan. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of [...]

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The semantics of torture

by RAINman on 15. May, 2009 in Analysis

‘Enhanced interrogation techniques’ is a euphemism. Why is the US media refusing to call torture by its true name?
 
John McQuaid *
The US media’s most esteemed institutions – the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and TV network news divisions among them – have a small but significant problem with the English language. They are [...]

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Prisoner Who Tied Iraq to Al-Qaeda Found Dead in Libyan Jail

Prisoner Who Tied Iraq to Al-Qaeda Found Dead in Libyan Jail

by RAINman on 13. May, 2009 in General

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, whose false tortured confession was used as basis for Bush’s war, has reportedly committed suicide… British journalist and historian Andy Worthington, an expert and author on Guantanamo, reports that the man who had supplied a key false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda — after being tortured in Egypt, where he had been [...]

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UAE detains ‘torture tape’ sheikh

UAE detains ‘torture tape’ sheikh

by RAINman on 13. May, 2009 in General

Abu Dhabi prosecutors have detained a member of their own ruling family after a video was circulated apparently showing him torture another man.  
Public prosecutors say they also have begun criminal inquiries into Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s actions on the tape.   The investigation is the first reported of a ruling family member in Abu [...]

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Amira Hass: Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay

by RAINman on 12. May, 2009 in Opinion

Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.

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Detainees in Asqalan barred from visitation rights for 1 week for rejecting orange jumpsuits

by RAINman on 07. May, 2009 in General

The Israeli Prison Administration in Asqalan (Ashkelon) Prison decided to bar the detainees from their visitation rights for one week for rejecting the wear the Orange Jumpsuits, the administration is trying to force all detainees to wear.

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UN retreats after Israel hits out at Gaza report

by RAINman on 07. May, 2009 in Hard News

The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon bowed to pressure from Israel yesterday by trying to limit the impact of a comprehensive critique accusing its military of “recklessness or negligence” in this year’s Gaza offensive. 
 

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Afghan president Hamid Karzai chooses warlord as running mate

by RAINman on 06. May, 2009 in General

KABUL – President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in Washington with President Barack Obama and Pakistan’s president.
 

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Videotape Complicates U.S. Deal With Emirates

by RAINman on 05. May, 2009 in Hard News

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A gruesome videotape showing a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family torturing an Afghan grain merchant has begun casting a lurid new light on allegations of human rights abuses in a city-state better known for skyscrapers and global finance.
The 45-minute videotape shows Sheik Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, assisted by uniformed police [...]

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