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  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Rapes and Rumors of Rape
    31 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lila Rajiva
    Part One & II
    By now, everyone has heard of the ghost detainees of Abu Ghraib — the prisoners who were never processed into the system and were kept out of sight of the Red Cross so that they could be whisked from prison to prison unaccounted for. But what about the other ghosts detainees — the women? Where are the women of Abu Ghraib and why have they been kept out of sight?
    When the Abu Ghraib story first broke at the end of April, no one appears to have found it (…)

  • Ron Reagan : the Case Against George W. Bush
    31 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The son of the fortieth president of the United States takes a hard look at the son of the forty-first and does not like what he sees
    By Ron Reagan
    It may have been the guy in the hood teetering on the stool, electrodes clamped to his genitals. Or smirking Lynndie England and her leash. Maybe it was the smarmy memos tapped out by soft-fingered lawyers itching to justify such barbarism. The grudging, lunatic retreat of the neocons from their long-standing assertion that Saddam was in (…)

  • Anybody but Bush - and then let’s get back to work
    30 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With Kerry at the helm, the left might focus on the real issues again
    by Naomi Klein
    Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was "Bush in a Box" that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave my father on his 66th birthday. Bush in a Box is a cardboard cut-out of President 43 with a set of adhesive speech balloons featuring the usual tired Bushisms: "Is our children learning?" "They misunderestimated me" - standard-issue Bush-bashing schlock, on sale at Wal-Mart, (…)

  • Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead
    29 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
    The smell of the dead pours into the street through the air-conditioning ducts. Hot, sweet, overwhelming. Inside the Baghdad morgue, there are so many corpses that the fridges are overflowing. The dead are on the floor. Dozens of them. Outside, in the 46C (114F) heat, Qadum Ganawi tells me how his brother Hassan was murdered.
    "He was bringing supper home for our family in Palestine Street but he never reached our home. Then we got a phone call saying we could (…)

  • Iraqi captors kill 2 Pakistanis
    29 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD
    * Iraqi driver freed
    * Group sends videotape to Al Jazeera
    A militant group holding two Pakistani contractors hostage said on Wednesday it had killed the men, but freed their Iraqi driver, according to the Pan-Arab television station Al Jazeera.
    The group, calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq, announced in a video recording on Monday that it had kidnapped two Pakistanis working for US forces and had sentenced them to death because their country was discussing sending (…)

  • Bombings, clashes kill more than 120 in Iraq
    28 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD
    More than 120 people died in a series of bombings and attacks in Iraq Wednesday, as US Secretary of State Colin Powell said the wave of violence would not stop the holding of elections next year.
    A minibus packed with explosives blew up near a police station and a market north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and wounding 30 in the worst attack since the handover of power one month ago.
    The powerful suicide bomb left a sea of destruction, obliterating market stalls and destroying (…)

  • U.S. colonel admits holding Iraqi teens; Fresh torture charges
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Byrne
    The US army admitted Monday for the first time to having detained adolescents in its prisons in Iraq, according to a German press report.
    The popular TV magazine "Report Mainz," broadcast Monday evening, quoted Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the US troops in Iraq, as saying that they still imprisoned 58 Iraqis in the age of from 14 and 17. The program had previously reported July 5 that 117 children had been held during the period of January through May. (…)

  • The Shrieks of Children
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Farrell Co-coordinator, Voices in the Wilderness
    William Rivers Pitt recently published an article on the Truthout website taking the US media to task for their failure to report the most disturbing story of the Iraq war: the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi children by the US Military. We should applaud the courage of journalists like Pitt and Seymour Hersh, not to mention whistleblowers such as Spec. Joseph Darby and Sgt. Samuel Provance who have faced military intimidation and (…)

  • Terror by video: How Iraq’s kidnappers drew their inspiration from horrors of Chechnya
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    The pictures are grainy, the voices sometimes unclear. But when Kim Sun-il shrieks "Don’t kill me" over and over again, his fear is palpable. As the heads of Iraq’s kidnap victims are sawn off, Koranic recitations - usually by a well-known Saudi imam are played on the soundtrack. At the beheading of an American, the murderer ritually wipes his bloody knife twice on the shirt of his victim, just as Saudi officials clean their blades after public executions in the kingdom. (…)

  • Soldiers tell stories about Iraq: "We shot women and children."
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By NATALIA MUÑOZ
    NORTHAMPTON - When his turn came to speak at the community dialogue on the Iraq War, Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey of the United States Marines Corps chewed his gum slowly and slowly scanned the 150 people in the audience. What he was about to say required deliberation.
    "We shot a man with his hands up," he said, "We even shot women and children."
    Massey was one of three Iraq War veterans to speak yesterday at a forum sponsored by the Veterans Education Project and the (…)