Troops in Afghanistan said to use private armies for detention and interrogation Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk 16 September 2009 Nato forces in Afghanistan are increasingly reliant on illegal militias, often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses and drug trafficking, according to an independent report published tomorrow.
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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
Judges Shame America
By Sherwood Ross Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based media consultant who has written for major dailies, wire services, and national magazines. To reach him or support his Anti-War News Service contact him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com. Information Clearing House September 13, 2009 The federal Appeals Court decision to toss a lawsuit claiming contractors tortured detainees in Iraq’s [...]
Rashid Rauf: missing ‘mastermind’ of the airline bomb plot
Pakistani officials say Rauf escaped and was later killed, but reports of appalling torture leave relatives sceptical about his fate Ian Cobain guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 September 2009 The conviction of three men who attempted to destroy at least seven transatlantic airliners, murdering more than 1,500 people, throws up new questions about the fate of the [...]
Doctors had ‘central role’ in CIA torture
Middle East Online First Published 2009-08-30 US health professionals played central role in developing, implementing, justifying torture. WASHINGTON – A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a “central role” in advising and implementing the CIA’s abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its [...]
CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
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 [...]
THE BEEB INVESTIGATES BAGRAM
“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, [...]
Doctors demand Yoram Blachar resign as ethics chief over Israeli torture
Sarah Boseley, health editor guardian.co.uk More than 700 doctors from 43 countries have written a letter of protest to their governing ethical body, the World Medical Association, alleging that its recently appointed Israeli president has turned a blind eye to the involvement of medical staff in torture, and calling for his removal.
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 [...]
Busted, Pentagon — Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped
By Naomi Wolf Huffington Post May 29, 2009 The Telegraph of London broke the news – because the US press is in a drugged stupor — that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female [...]
Noam Chomsky: Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can’t See the Trees or the Forest
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia Published on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by TomDispatch.com The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. [...]
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