By Noah Shachtman
U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested two journalists in separate raids, IraqSlogger reports. They are the latest in a long string of reporters, cameramen, and photographers who have been detained in Iraq.
Ibrahim Jasim, an Iraqi cameraman working with the Reuters news agency, was taken from his home in Babil Province by a joint [...]
BAGHDAD: The U.S. military on Saturday released a cameraman working for Associated Press Television News after nearly three months in detention, saying no evidence was found that he posed a security threat.
Ahmed Nouri Raziak, 38, was handed over to representatives of The Associated Press at a U.S. military compound in Baghdad. He was detained by [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention.
Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works for the British Broadcasting Corp. and National Public Radio, had been detained twice before, including for a five-month stretch.
Al-Mashhadani was freed “because he [...]
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
A video released on YouTube (BELOW) shows American soldiers taking a group of Iraqis on a tour of a prison camp. The soldier guiding the group tells them that all the cases are currently being reviewed and says, “I’m sure if someone didn’t do anything wrong, they’ll be released.”
At 5:47 into [...]
Joseph Logan
There are 360 children among the detainees, down from 500 in May. Many have been held for months, and some for more than a year, often without access to the educational services provided to children at one MNF facility. Those children referred to trial by the MNF are held at an Iraqi facility described [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military must charge or immediately release a Reuters cameraman detained in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday.
Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani (R), a television cameraman,
embraces a colleague shortly after his release from Abu Ghraib
prison in Baghdad January 15, 2006.
REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year — more than in all of 2007.
The military says in a statement on Saturday that it is currently holding about 21,000 detainees in Iraq.
The military said that more than 8,900 people left detention last year.
The [...]
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Four Germany-based soldiers charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder in Iraq allegedly took male detainees to a canal and shot them, according to details released by the Army on Tuesday.
An Article 32 hearing for Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham, Sgt. Charles Quigley, Spc. Stephen Ribordy and Spc. [...]
The Unites States Army has brought charges against four soldiers in connection to the deaths of several detainees in Iraq in early 2007.
“The soldiers were charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder,” a statement released by the US Army said on Tuesday.
“The charges relate to an incident that occurred during April/May [...]
A photo published by the British Daily Mirror on the abuse of Iraqi detainees
The British government has tried to cover up the use of prohibited interrogation techniques by British soldiers in Iraq, lawmakers say.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights, consisted of twelve members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, [...]
By Russ Kick
First Published Photographs of Wooden Imprisonment Crates
In Iraq, some prisoners/detainees are kept in wooden crates known as “prisoner boxes,” so I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Central Command asking for the following:
“Vanity Fair (Feb 2005 issue) has reported [...]
..Yet another journalist arrested in Iraq. This is also happening in Afghanistan. Gee, you’d think they don’t want us to know the truth or something…..
Committee to Protect Journalists
330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA Phone: (212) 465?1004 Fax: (212) 465?9568 Web: www.cpj.org [...]
An Iraqi man sits in a chair in small wood shack with no windows and little ventilation. A torn shirt blindfolds his eyes and his wrists are tightly bound with plastic, military handcuffs. He sits perfectly still even as he hears the door open.
yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = “Iraq Detainees - Photo Essay by ZORIAH”;
http://freedetainees.org/1539
Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge
By Andrew Johnson
The IoS has pixellated this image of the boy making the complaint because he is consumed by shame, and lives in fear of retribution from [...]
By Gareth Porter, IPS News
New Iraqi resistance to U.S. demands reflects Iran’s influence as well as Sadr’s belief that he could succeed in driving U.S. forces out.
The official Iraqi demand for U.S. withdrawal confirms what was becoming increasingly clear in recent months — that the Iraqi regime has decided to shed its military [...]
An interrogator from Renton and two other individual U.S. defense contractors were sued in federal court Monday by three Iraqis and a Jordanian…
By DAVID DISHNEAU
The Associated Press
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An interrogator from Renton and two other individual U.S. defense contractors were sued in federal court Monday by three Iraqis and a Jordanian who say they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks three times and being sodomised with a stick. His thumbs bore round scars consistent with shocking, Physicians for Human Rights said in report obtained by The Associated Press before its official release. He would not allow a full rectal exam.
By Chris Allbritton (back-to-iraq)
Bret Stephens, a regular columnist for the Journal’s op-ed page, finds four American-installed leaders in Iraq who back McCain. Imagine that. He then takes these four guys’ views and extrapolates them to include all Iraqis. And while he mentions a Pew poll that shows the overwhelming majority of the world supports Sen. [...]
(March 2008 VIDEO BELOW)
Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government’s argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information.
“To say the least, we see things [...]
“The 300th MP Brigade, Task Force 134, MNC-I, the Government of Iraq and others work hard every day to prepare detainees for reconciliation with their communities in Iraq.” Already in the first five months of 2008, Coalition forces have released more than 7,300 detainees - almost meeting the total number of releases of 8,956, for 2007.
In the Tournament of Abuses Parade, aka the George W. Bush presidency, it’s almost impossible to lock in on one outrage. So many roll by in rapid succession.
Look quickly. The steel traps of Guantanamo Bay are wedged tightly by the Fox News float and the Echo Chamber Drumbeat Corps.
I live for these articles. It amazes me that these people think we’re actually buying into this drivel. Now they’re having graduation ceremonies I suppose.. when they let the detainees out. Of course they must promise to be good from now on, and cowtow to the occupation farces. I’ve seen some ridiculous things, but let [...]
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.
Guantanamo Bay News
