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  • The soldiers, "appearing to delight in the abuses", in the video
    22 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Washington Post posted a video
    on its website showing soldiers starting to build a human pyramid of naked
    detainees. A soldier is seen co-ordinating it, at one point hitting a prisoner
    so hard in the face that the man’s legs buckle. US military guards, "appearing
    to delight in the abuses", rode Iraqi prisoners like animals and forced them
    to scrape their food from toilets, according to testimony reported Friday.
    The
    video from WaPo, here.
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  • New photos: Torture Scandal Grows
    22 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Washington Post and ABC, published new photographs of the alleged abuse
    and sexual humiliation of Iraq prisoners by U.S. soldiers. The material, including
    secret sworn statements from prisoners, came from evidence being assembled
    from investigations into possible criminal charges against U.S. soldiers.
    Two American soldiers posing with thumbs up near a body packed in ice at Iraq’s
    Abu Ghraib prison.
    The photographs depict a U.S. soldier apparently preparing to (…)

  • Analysis of Abu Ghraib Detainee statements - Verdict:Systemic cover-up
    21 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prisoners’ affidavits taken in Abu Ghraib earlier this year - published in WAPO today in .pdf format, obtainable here
    A couple of things stand out.
    1) Reading the statements of Kasim Mehaddi Hilas it is clear that his questioning re the abuse was LIMITED to incidents occurring at Abu Ghraib. As he indicates in his statement, the place where he was previously held was also ’very bad’ but it appears that he was not permitted to discuss this
    2) The ’supplementary’ questions asked of the (…)

  • Reformist Social Democracy is No Longer on the Agenda
    18 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Last week, Italian communist leader Fausto Bertinotto was elected leader of the new European left party created by 16 communist and socialist parties.
    The following commentary by Bertinoti appeared in The Guardian (UK) August 11, 2003.)
    Reformist social democracy is no longer on the agenda
    By Fausto Bertinotti
    The terrible events in Iraq marked the end of the post-war period - a period marked by the memory of the horrors of the Nazi-fascist war, when the world saw two opposing (…)

  • The Face of America
    12 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Richard Cranium
    His photo could be that of any of hundreds of thousands of anonymous U.S. soldiers in desert cammo. But suddenly, Spc. Jeremy Sivits find himself cast on the world stage as The Face of America.
    The first public hanging in the Abu Ghraib abuse fiasco has been scheduled for May 16. Not surprisingly, the first perpetrator to be tried is a lower echelon enlisted person - Spc. Sivits. It’s not clear what Sivits role in this whole mess might have been, but (…)

  • Horror: as US citizen is beheaded on video
    12 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A poor quality videotape posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant website showed five masked men believed to be linked with Al-Qaeda beheading an American hostage dressed in orange Guantanamo Bay style
    "My name is Nick Berg, my father’s name is Michael, my mother’s name is Susan. I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in Philadelphia," the man in the video said.
    After reading a statement, the man was beheaded.
    A body found in Baghdad over the weekend has been (…)

  • Democracy & transparency: Pentagon internal cencorship
    11 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    From: Time on line
    Military Personnel: Don’t Read This!
    How a Pentagon email sought to contain the prison abuse scandal
    By VIVIENNE WALT / BAGHDAD
    Document: The Pentagon Email
    It’s not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that’s exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report detailing abuse of detainees at (…)

  • The true history of Charles A. Graner, Jr.
    10 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Currently Employed SCI-Green Prison Guard Supervised Torture of Prisoners in Iraq; PA Officials Covering up his PA Record
    On Wednesday, May 5, the New York Times published a story about Americans who were directly involved in the disgusting human rights abuses that have taken place in the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad. Disturbingly, there is a direct link between Abu Ghraib Prison and the State Correctional Institution at Greene (SCI-Greene), a super-maximum security prison in (…)

  • We publish the integral version of the secret report written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba
    9 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ernesto
    We publish the integral version of the report on the tortures in the Iraqis jails prepared in the month of February 2004 from the U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
    In this 53-page secret report, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba authored the investigative report about abuses of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of American soldiers says an investigation found a disturbing pattern of sadistic, blatant, wanton criminal abuses. The report was completed in February (…)

  • Intibucá Strikes Back!
    9 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Local Struggles Continue for Rights, Resources, Justice
    by Sandra Cuffe
    The police had caught wind of the special activities that were being planned in the twin towns of La Esperanza and Intibucá, department of Intibucá, in southwestern Honduras. A few officers slept inside the building of the Departmental Direction of Education in order to halt any protest or occupation that might take place there on April 26, 2004.
    They underestimated the organizational capacity of the convergence (…)