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 [...]
Gamal Nkrumah traces the triumph of human dignity embodied by the struggle of a Sudanese cameraman’s affliction
The ordeal of Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al- Haj has touched the Arab world. He has become an iconic figure and his release has demonstrated to all and sundry that the world’s most powerful nation has committed a terrible blunder. [...]
by Nat Hentoff
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo [...]
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 [...]
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, April 14 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged the Afghan military, foreign troops and Taliban insurgents to spare civilians during combat, the organisation’s global chief said on Monday.
Jakob Kellenberger also said suspected Taliban prisoners held by the U. S. military at Bagram were concerned about their fate [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years says he was tortured by Americans. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday,
(CBS) A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early [...]
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