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MnIndy interview: Errol Morris looks beyond the frame at Abu Ghraib

Of all the guards implicated in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, Lynndie England stands alone. Her smiling thumbs up beside a line of hooded prisoners is hard to forget. But in one photo, the one where she holds a nude prisoner on a leash, she wasn’t originally standing alone. She tells Errol Morris in [...]

Former Abu Ghraib Commander to Speak in Memphis

ANDY MEEK | The Daily News

THE LECTURE CIRCUIT: Former U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Janis
Karpinski speaks at a meeting of The Commonwealth Club
of California in San Francisco in 2005. Her topic that day
was “What Really Happened in Abu Ghraib?”
— AP PHOTO/ERIC RISBERG

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The Abu Ghraib Prison A Gift From the Sons of The Devil and Raping Iraqi’s

As a former Special Operations commander from the sixties and having been substantially involved with the training of US Army combat troops during the Vietnam and Berlin Crisis era – I have a good feel for the nature of the American serviceman, - or at least I THOUGHT that I did. Apparently there has been [...]

Abuses of power

Spencer Ackerman
If the era of unconscious American patriotism that began on September 11 ended in April 2004, when CBS News and the New Yorker magazine published the infamous torture photographs from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, then perhaps the hangover of euphemism that clouded America’s understanding of its post-September 11 wars began to lift on June [...]

Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret

By Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Newspapers  | http://www.bostonherald.com

WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn’t the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.
It was largely the work of five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department [...]

Meet the people behind Abu Ghraib photos

By RENE RODRIGUEZ
The old saying claims a picture is worth a thousand words. But in his new documentary Standard Operating Procedure, Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris argues that a thousand words aren’t always enough.

This is particularly true when the picture in question happens to be one of the photographs taken at Abu Ghraib, the U.S. military [...]

Abu Ghraib? Doesn’t Ring a Bell.

By Dana Milbank

If ever there was a case that cried out for enhanced interrogation techniques, it was yesterday’s Senate appearance by the Pentagon’s former top lawyer.

William “Jim” Haynes II, the man who blessed the use of dogs, hoods and nudity to pry information out of recalcitrant detainees, proved to be a model of evasion himself [...]

We are led by war criminals, says general

By Jay Bookman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba led the military’s investigation into the abuse at Abu Ghraib, and he did so honestly and forthrightly. As reward for doing his job well, he was forced to retire from the service he loved.
The two-star general has now written a forward to a report on widespread, [...]

Former prisoners still feeling effects of U.S. abuse, report says

By Jamal Halaby
ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMMAN, Jordan — Four years after his release from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Ali al-Qaisi says he has nightmares and insomnia. He blames those conditions on injuries — physical and psychological — he says he suffered at the hands of his American captors.
The Iraqi was among 11 former [...]

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

More on this story:

Story | Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross
Story | [...]

Yoo Gave Interrogators Legal Cover to Kill Guantanamo Detainees

On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Abu Ghraib lessons drive detainee policies

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Four years ago, Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison was center-stage amid allegations of detainee abuse, and coalition forces suddenly cast as conquerors instead of liberators, losing the trust of the Iraqi people.

“The Hard Hand of War”: Rape as an Instrument of Total War

By DAVID ROSEN
Louise Arbour, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, recently announced her decision to resign her position and not seek a second term. Reading behind the formal language of a well-respected diplomat, its clean the [...]

Report Details Interrogation Debate

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON ? F. B. I. agents complained repeatedly, beginning in 2002, about the harsh interrogation tactics that military and C. I. A. interrogators were using in questioning terrorism suspects, like making them do dog tricks and parade in the nude in front of female soldiers, but their complaints appear to [...]

US Says It Holds 500 Juveniles In Iraq, 10 In Afghanistan

This brings new meaning to “Leave no child behind”…………..
NEW YORK (AP)–The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the U.S. has told the United Nations.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age [...]

Four Years Later: Why Did It Take So Long for the Press to Break Abu Ghraib Story?

Charles J. Hanley, Pulitzer winner for the Associated Press, uncovered abuses at the infamous prison months before the scandal really exploded. Why were so many others so slow to act?

By Greg Mitchell
(May 08, 2008) — Four years ago this month, as May unfolded, each day brought fresh horrors, images, or details about the Abu Ghraib [...]

Occupied Iraq has the Largest Number of Prisons in the World

Sahar Yasiri says ?Iraq is the number one country having the largest number of prisons in the world where there are more than 400 thousand Iraqi detainees including 6500 children and 10 thousand women.? This is the first part of long interview translated by AMSI English Web Team.
The representative of the Federation of prisoners and [...]

Victims, rights groups press US over tactics in ‘war on terror’

William Fisher
Inter Press Service
‘Rendition,’ torture allegations are not going away

NEW YORK: With human rights groups demanding the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, new torture claims have been leveled at two [...]

General’s Memoir Claims Torture by U.S.

WASHINGTON — The commanding general in Iraq for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says outright in his new memoir that the military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan, that the military had a plan to kill off Moqtada al-Sadr’s deputies as early as March 2003 and that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tried to usurp command for [...]

Crossing the line

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris casts light on the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib
By Carl Kozlowski
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then whole volumes of disgust and dismay were generated by the horrifying photos that emerged from the US military prison in Iraq known as Abu Ghraib. A former torture center for deposed and [...]

Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth

By Sam Provance

Editor’s Note: Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was the only uniformed military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib who broke the code of silence surrounding the infamous prisoner abuses. He spoke out during the Army’s internal investigation, at a congressional hearing and in press interviews.
For his brave integrity, Provance was punished and pushed [...]

UN probe urged over Iraqi inmates

The UN Security Council should address serious concerns about the detention policies of the US-led forces in Iraq, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

The UN says US-led troops held 24,514 inmates in Iraq at the end of 2007

The New York-based group says thousands of Iraqis are being held indefinitely and without judicial review.
It claims that [...]

Errol Morris: His New Iraq Documentary

The Oscar-winning director of ”The Fog of War” is back, and in this frank, wide-ranging Q&A he discusses his latest movie, ”Standard Operating Procedure,” about the Abu Ghraib scandal
By Missy Schwartz

”I worry that I don’t know how to talk about my own movie,” says Errol Morris, referring to his new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure (now [...]

Four Years Later

By Sharon Keller to Huffington Post

Four years ago, the world learned that American soldiers had tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison. In addition to the human cost in pain, suffering, and humiliation that was captured on film, an accounting of the harm done by the incidents at Abu Ghraib must include the price of having [...]

Torture Question Hovers Over Chertoff

By Andy Worthington
The latest diclosures further erode claims by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that prisoner abuses at Gardez – or the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib – were isolated acts by a few ‘bad apples’, says Jason Leopold. John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who [...]

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