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Iran Names 26 Sanctioned US officials

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Published May 30, 2011, in war crimes

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Parliament released the names of 26 US officials wanted by Tehran for various crimes, including violation of human rights, state-sponsored terrorism, and drug-trafficking.

Rapporteur of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazzem Jalali said that the motion to impose sanctions on and prosecute certain American officials was unanimously adopted by the members of his commission on Sunday.

According to Jalali, some of the officials on the list include:

12- The United States’ first administrator in Iraq in 2003, charged with the massacre of the civilians and violation of human rights in Iraq

13- US Defense Department official Richard Pearl, for his role in designing the military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the crimes committed by the US troops in the two war-torn states

14- Richard A. Cody, Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Army in 2003, for complicity in the massacre of the civilians, torture of the prisoners in Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo, and violation of human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Children tortured before parents, raped, all covered up by Bush/Cheney and our media

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Published July 20, 2009, in Abu Ghraib, Torture, Torture children, war crimes

by MinistryOfTruth

 Perhaps the worst incident at Abu Ghraib involved a girl aged 12 or 13 who screamed for help to her brother in an upper cell while stripped naked and beaten. Iraqi journalist Suhaib Badr-Addin al-Baz, who heard the girl’s screams, also witnessed an ill 15-year-old who was forced to run up and down with two heavy cans of water and beaten whenever he stopped. When he finally collapsed, guards stripped and poured cold water on him. Finally, a hooded man was brought in. When unhooded, the boy realized that the man was his father, who doubtless was being intimidated into confessing something upon sight of his brutalized son.

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Empathy is what keeps men from becoming MONSTERS.

Simulposted at docudharma.com

MinistryOfTruth’s diary :

    They did it brazenly in front of other prisoners. Nothing but a sheet separated the sound of screaming and the torment of children.

    This is how you create your own insurgency.

    From this PDF obtained by The Washington Post I have transcribed a portion of an Iraqi detainees testimony to a Titan Corp translator detailing horror in Abu Gharib.

 I saw REDACTED fucking a kid, his age would be about 15 – 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered, and I saw REDACTED who was in military uniform putting his dick in the little kids ass.

~snip~

 They put the sheets again on the door. Grainer and his helper they cuffed one prisoner in room #1, named REDACTED, he was an Iraqi citizen. They tied him to the bed and they were inserted the phosphoric light in his ass and he was yelling for God’s help.  

   The web address on that PDF is media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/151108.pdf. How long they have had this info and neglected to report on it I cannot guess.

 

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War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration’s Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre

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Published July 13, 2009, in Afghanistan, Death in Custody, war crimes

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Rice approved CIA waterboarding

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Published April 23, 2009, in Abu Zubaydah (Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn), Torture, war crimes

Undated photo showing al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah

Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded more than 80 times

The CIA’s use of waterboarding to interrogate terrorism suspects was approved by Condoleezza Rice as early as 2002, a senate report reveals.

As national security adviser, Ms Rice consented to the harsh interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah, the Senate Intelligence Committee found.

Memos released last week show that he and another key detainee were subjected to waterboarding 266 times.

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney has said the techniques produced results.

The latest details were revealed in a timeline of the CIA’s interrogation programme produced by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

It shows Ms Rice and other top Bush administration officials were first briefed about “alternative interrogation methods, including waterboarding”, in May 2002.

 

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Rumsfeld: Architect of torture

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Published April 22, 2009, in Rumsfeld, Torture, war crimes

The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.

Editor’s note: Download the entire Senate Armed Services Committee report here. Read about how the Bush administration may have pressured interrogators to use torture to extract information linking al-Qaida to Saddam Hussein here. Read about how the Bush administration began planning for torture here.

WASHINGTON — When Donald Rumsfeld heard about plans to force detainees at Guantánamo Bay to stand for hours on end, in order to soften them up and make them talk to U.S. interrogators, he made a joke about it. “I stand for 8-10 hours a day,” the then-defense secretary wrote on Dec. 2, 2002, at the bottom of a memo authorizing military officials to use extreme techniques against prisoners. “Why is standing limited to 4 hours?”

As a newly released Senate Armed Services Committee report makes clear, the effects of Rumsfeld’s cavalier attitude toward what the report calls “detainee abuse” — and what international law would probably call torture — didn’t just stop at the military prison on Cuba. The techniques Rumsfeld approved for use at Guantánamo oozed into prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, undermining decades of U.S. policy about humane treatment of detainees and leading to some of the worst outrages of the Bush administration, including the Abu Ghraib abuses, which Salon has covered extensively.

 

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Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos

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Published April 15, 2009, in CIA Tapes, Obama's Broken Promises, Secrecy, Secret Memos, Torture, war crimes

Top Officials at Odds Over Whether to Withhold Some Details on Interrogation Tactics

By EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations, despite a push by some top officials to make the information public, according to people familiar with the discussions.

These people cautioned that President Barack Obama is still reviewing internal arguments over the release of Justice Department memorandums related to CIA interrogations, and how much information will be made public is in flux.

Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner’s head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator, according to people familiar with the memos. Another approved tactic was waterboarding, or simulated drowning.

A decision to keep secret key parts of the three 2005 memos outlining legal guidance on CIA interrogations would anger some Obama supporters who have pushed him to unveil now-abandoned Bush-era tactics. It would also go against the views of Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Counsel Greg Craig, people familiar with the matter said.

 

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Dogs of War: Let loose the legal beagles of war

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Published April 4, 2009, in Blackwater, CACI International Inc., Lawsuit, Qasim Mohamed Abbas Mahmoud, Sa'ad Raheem Jarallah, war crimes

WASHINGTON, (UPI) — Don’t look now but it is raining lawyers; or to be more precise, lawsuits. Just consider what has happened in the past two weeks.

There was a ruling on March 18 by the U.S. District Court in Virginia denying CACI’s motion to dismiss a case by four Iraqi plaintiffs alleging abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. This dates back to the original 2004 revelations made famous by the report of Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.

In this case federal district court judge Gerald Lee of the Eastern District of Virginia issued a significant ruling on the question of contractor immunity. Lee denied CACI’s motion to dismiss on three different theories of immunity. He found that the tort claims against CACI did not interfere with separation of powers doctrine and ruled that additional discovery was necessary to determine whether CACI’s actions were protected because of its role as a contractor for the U.S. military. “The parties must conduct discovery to determine whether the interrogations here constitute ‘combatant activities,’” the judge wrote.

 

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The Laws of War

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Published March 2, 2009, in Detainee Abuse, Detainee Policy, Detainee Treatment Act, Disappeared, Extraordinary Rendition, war crimes, war on terror, waterboarding

by Raymond Bonner

Matthew Alexander and John Bruning, How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (New York: Free Press, 2008), 304 pp., $26.00.

David Cole, Justice at War: The Men and Ideas that Shaped America’s War on Terror (New York: New York Review of Books, 2008), 176 pp., $14.95.

Karen Greenberg, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 288 pp., $27.95.

Eric Lichtblau, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice (New York: Pantheon, 2008), 384 pp., $26.95.

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 400 pp., $27.50.

 WITH AN order to close Guantánamo, the Obama administration has acted quickly to move away from the Bush administration’s policies in what it called the “war on terror.” But much more needs to be done to undo the damage to America’s reputation abroad—not just in the Muslim world—and to lessen the chances of starting another chapter in the erosion of America’s civil liberties. And not all measures will be difficult. For starters, President Barack Obama should follow the lead of Britain’s Gordon Brown, who, upon becoming prime minister, stopped using the phrase “war on terror.”

 

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Bush, 30 Officials, To Be Named In Complaint On Torture To Go To Obama Administration

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Published January 10, 2009, in war crimes

Written by Sherwood Ross

WAR CRIMES REPORT SAYS WHITE HOUSE REJECTED ALL ADVICE FROM GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT TORTURE WAS ILLEGAL;

REPORT NAMES 30 HIGH BUSH OFFICIALS COMPLICIT IN TORTURE.

President Bush and his aides repeatedly ignored warnings that their torture plans were illegal from high State Department officials as well as the nation’s top uniformed legal officers, the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, a new published report states.

“These warnings of illegality and immorality given by knowledgeable and experienced (government) persons were ignored by the small group of high Executive officers who were determined that America would torture and abuse its prisoners and who had the decision-making power to secretly require this to be done,” said Lawrence Velvel, chairman of the “Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference On Planning For The Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals.”  The Steering Committee’s Report was drafted for the entire committee by Chair Velvel, a noted legal education reformer.

The Report anticipates a more extensive, full scale complaint, currently being drafted, that will be presented to the Executive Branch after January 20th, urging prosecution of President Bush and those who aided him.

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Conyers Calls for Probe of Bush’s Torture Policies

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Published January 8, 2009, in war crimes

Written by Jason Leopold

In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the “broad range” of policies pursued by the Bush administration “under claims of unreviewable war powers,” including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.

Conyers’s proposal for a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties also signals that Congress will devote significant time this year to investigating the Bush administration’s most controversial actions with an eye to rolling back its expansion of executive power.

Many civil liberties and human rights groups feared that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Barack Obama’s administration would duck any sustained inquiry into wrongdoing by George W. Bush and his subordinates, to avoid angering Republicans.

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