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	<title>Research And Information Network (RAIN) &#187; abuse</title>
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		<title>Israeli Soldiers Continue Their Facebook Displays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Saed Bannoura - Monday October 25, 2010 IMEMC &#38; Agencies The Israeli Walla News Website published, on Sunday, several pictures by Israeli soldiers on Facebook showing “memories” while humiliating Palestinians during the war on Gaza. The Website said that the pictures show Palestinian detainees in degrading positions as the soldiers posed next to them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zionist settler beats 90-year-old Palestinian woman, her grandson</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/zionist-settler-beats-90-year-old-palestinian-woman-her-grandson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian Information Center May 19, 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain faces payout shame as hundreds of detainees claim soldiers abused them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basra]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Fordham in Basra Times Online &#8211; 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. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has already paid millions of pounds to claimants who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=1032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE BEEB INVESTIGATES BAGRAM</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/the-beeb-investigates-bagram/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=1011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Even Guantánamo Bay is better than this&#8221; 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The semantics of torture</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/the-semantics-of-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; is a euphemism. Why is the US media refusing to call torture by its true name?   John McQuaid * The US media&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoner Who Tied Iraq to Al-Qaeda Found Dead in Libyan Jail</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/prisoner-who-tied-iraq-to-al-qaeda-found-dead-in-libyan-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, whose false tortured confession was used as basis for Bush&#8217;s war, has reportedly committed suicide&#8230; 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 &#8212; after being tortured in Egypt, where he had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE detains &#8216;torture tape&#8217; sheikh</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/uae-detains-torture-tape-sheikh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s actions on the tape.   The investigation is the first reported of a ruling family member in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amira Hass: Israel knows that peace just doesn&#8217;t pay</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/amira-hass-israel-knows-that-peace-just-doesnt-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Detainees in Asqalan barred from visitation rights for 1 week for rejecting orange jumpsuits</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/detainees-in-asqalan-barred-from-visitation-rights-for-1-week-for-rejecting-orange-jumpsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. The one week punishment could be renewed should the detainees continue to reject the jumpsuits. The Palestinian Ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN retreats after Israel hits out at Gaza report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.    The official UN report – which Mr Ban himself commissioned – criticised the Israel Defence Forces for breaching the inviolability of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan president Hamid Karzai chooses warlord as running mate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 10:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL &#8211; 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&#8217;s president.   The selection of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a top commander in the militant group Jamiat-e-Islami during Afghanistan&#8217;s 1990s [...]]]></description>
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