By ALISSA J. RUBIN
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — America’s largest detention facility is here in Iraq’s southern desert, and it sits at the center of one of the most complex debates in the transition from American military rule to full Iraqi sovereignty: what to do with the 5,000 Iraqi prisoners whom the United States military considers [...]
By David Enders, The Nation.
What will the United States do with the thousands of Iraqis it is holding in legal limbo?
It may seem hard to imagine a place where people incarcerated by the U.S. military have fewer rights than they do in Guantanamo Bay.
Welcome to Iraq.
It is just after 4 a.m., and hundreds of [...]
By Mike Cowie
Driving, according to the George W. Bush administration, is the newest war crime. Yes, war crime.
Things have been quite farcical in the land of Bush and Dick (Cheney) for years now, but it would seem that, as of the past week, they’ve reached a whole new level of lunacy.
At a trial in Guantanamo [...]
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 [...]
Please note: This could spell disaster to the Sunni Muslims of Iraq. If Sadr’s Shiites take over these prisons, it could mean nothing short of genocide for the Iraqi detainees… -LGR
BAGHDAD (AP) - In the eyes of Iraqi justice, Yahya Ali Humadi is a free man.
To the U.S. military, he’s another of the [...]
By Sherwood Ross
The U. S. is holding more Iraqis in prison than ever before—24,700—and is expanding its facilities to accommodate another 10,000, according to a reliable published report. Unfortunately for them, most of those detained are being held illegally.
In addition to the U. S. detainees, the Iraqi government is holding 26,000 more Iraqi prisoners, bringing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
John Yoo’s legal opinions and questions about culpability and timing.
By Scott Horton
John C. Yoo likes the limelight, but it’s causing him some grief. Of the half a dozen lawyers who played important roles in a Bush administration decision to legalize the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques, only Yoo has emerged as the public face [...]
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
The image of CIA officers demonstrating and detailing torture techniques considered for use during detainee interrogations in the White House is one most Americans could probably never conceive. And yet, ABC News reported last week that senior Bush administration officials were privy to such presentations in the Situation Room as they discussed [...]
To the Editor:
Re “ ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations” (front page, April 2):
It’s high time that the authors of the Bush administration’s legal recipe book for torture be brought out of the kitchen and into the courtroom. Yet despite volumes of highly credible evidence of human rights crimes, or even war crimes, a negligent [...]
Camp Bucca, Iraq ONE SAILOR HAS A SHOTGUN LOADED with rubber pellets slung over his shoulder. The other carries a baton. They travel a dusty sand path between tall fences covered in coils of concertina wire, looking for signs of trouble.
The detainees on “Navy Row” are secured inside their dwellings. Each 10-person unit is made [...]
By Jennifer Grogan
Camp Bucca, Iraq — What are the events that led to your capture?
How has your behavior been in the compound?
If you were to be released, what would you do?
These are just a few of the questions that detainees at Camp Bucca have to answer in front of the Multi-National Force Review Committee, a [...]
REUTERS/Fatih SaribasProtesters dressed as Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Istanbul last month.
By Susan Albright
With the disclosure of a key 81-page memo on Tuesday, the story of the Bush administration’s devolution on the subject of torture became clearer this week. The March 2003 memo — sent by then-Justice Department lawyer John Yoo to the general counsel of the [...]
Relatives go to a Baghdad center to check names of people held in detention facilities. If their loved ones aren’t listed, the likely alternatives are worse.
By Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBAGHDAD — Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and wives fill the waiting room of the U. S.-run National Iraqi Assistance Center in Baghdad’s fortified [...]
His thirst for scapegoats shows how poorly George Bush understands the meaning of Easter.
By Giles Fraser the vicar of Putney giles.fraser@btinternet.com
Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can [...]
By Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Some don’t know why they were arrested, and many are held for months without seeing a judge. Justice officials deny the accusations, but evidence points to deep- rooted problems.
BAGHDAD — Sad, tired eyes peer out from behind the bars of Kadhimiya Prison. The pleas are desperate: “I swear [...]
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