By Scott Horton Harpers - 18 January 2010 1. “Asymmetrical Warfare” When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo “shall be [...]
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Confronting an evil past << RAINnote: long but worth reading
The post-9/11 U.S. torture programme was a collective failure and a mistake because it was wrong. JORGE HEINE FRONTLINE Volume 26 – Issue 19 :: Sep. 12-25, 2009 INDIA’S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
Teenage inmate leaves Guantanamo
BBC Monday, 24 August 2009 One of the youngest detainees at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay has been released and sent home to his native Afghanistan, his lawyers say. They said Mohammed Jawad was detained at 12 in 2002 and is now 19, although the Pentagon disputed his age. Mr Jawad had been [...]
From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?
by Andy Worthington Andy Worthington is a journalist and historian, based in London. He is the author of The Guantánamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison. For more information, visit his blog here: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/ Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Let’s face [...]
Video: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was Tortured By JAKE TAPPER, KAREN TRAVERS, and STEPHANIE Z. SMITH ABC News Internet Ventures June 8, 2009 For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: “10005.” These were the digits assigned to him when [...]
Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture
by Robert Parry Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat. His two previous books are Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush [...]
Spanish Investigation Reveals ‘An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture’ Under Bush
While Obama and the US Congress refuse to hold Bush-era torturers accountable, a Spanish judge fights for accountability and uncovers more US atrocities. by Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill is the author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing [...]
The semantics of torture
‘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 [...]
Prisoner Who Tied Iraq to Al-Qaeda Found Dead in Libyan Jail
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 [...]
Detainees in Asqalan barred from visitation rights for 1 week for rejecting orange jumpsuits
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.
Spanish Judge Opens Probe into Guantanamo Torture
MADRID – A Spanish judge on Wednesday opened an investigation into an alleged “systematic programme” of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp, following accusations by four former prisoners.
The Psychologists of Torture
Medical professionals designed and helped to implement Bush administration interrogation practices.
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