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By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, May 4 (Reuters) - With six U.S. soldiers reprimanded and six others facing criminal charges, Iraq’s prisoner-abuse scandal looked far from over on Tuesday as more Iraqis came forward to allege maltreatment by U.S. troops.
"If the Americans ever come back to detain me I will commit suicide before I am taken to this place again," Sha’aban al-Janabi, a former prisoner, said as he pointed at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail on the outskirts of (…)

By ELIZABETH BECKER and TODD BENSON
It began with Brazil’s soybean farmers.
Pedro de Camargo Neto, then a top official of the Brazilian Rural Society, Brazil’s most influential agriculture lobby, kept hearing complaints in the late 1990’s from farmers that, just as they were starting to turn a profit with their soybean exports, they were getting clobbered by lower-priced American soybeans that were heavily subsidized with taxpayers’ money.
"Something was wrong here,’’ he said in a (…)

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Excerpts of the Army’s investigative report on alleged abuses at U.S. military prisons in Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, Iraq. It was requested by the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, and written by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba:
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Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade; Secret/No Foreign Dissemination
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Several potential suspects rendered full and complete confessions regarding their personal involvement and the involvement of fellow (…)

By PHILLIP COOREY
ATTACK dogs, sexual humiliation, rape threats and being doused with acid have been among the abuses by US soldiers against detainees at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
They are detailed in a confidential US Army report which says the detainees were subjected to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses".
Phosphoric acid was poured on to prisoners, cold water poured on naked detainees and some prisoners were forced to masturbate in front of each other.
At least one (…)

By SHERRI DAY
UMBERLAND, Md., Stop anyone in this quaint town surrounded by mountains, and they will have an opinion about the war in Iraq and recent accusations that Army reservists abused Iraqi prisoners.
"I’m a little disappointed," said Dixie Long, an office manager at Allegany College, as she strolled through downtown on Sunday. "We were going over there to rid the bad leaders. It upsets me a little bit that some of our people would go over there and act just as bad."
The abuse (…)

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Deborah Caulfield Rybak, Star Tribune
An e-mail diary by U.S. interrogator Joe Ryan, a former Green Beret and Twin Cities resident, about working at a Baghdad prison has been removed from the Web site of KSTP Radio (1500 AM: http://www.am1500.com ) at his request, a station official said Monday.
"We got an e-mail from him last Thursday saying that the military had asked that he stop letting his diary be posted," said (…)

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Reed Brody is special counsel with Human Rights Watch in New York.
We must all—like President George W. Bush—share a "deep disgust" at the pictures of U.S. military personnel subjecting Iraqi detainees to humiliating treatment. The problem, however, is that this does not appear to be an isolated incident.
Across the world, the United States is holding detainees in offshore and foreign prisons where allegations of mistreatment cannot be monitored. It has also been accused of sending (…)

By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 3, 2004; Page A15
President Bush took a huge diplomatic gamble two weeks ago when he forcefully embraced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to withdraw from Gaza and handed Israel key concessions on a final peace deal. The backlash in Arab and European countries was especially intense, but administration officials argued Sharon’s plan carried the seeds of a breakthrough in the stalled peace process.
Now, the Likud Party’s (…)