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The Pentagon is in possession of videos of rape scenes shot in Iraqi prisons But even these chilling pictures may not be the end. The Pentagon now has other photos and videos in its possession, showing acts of rape......
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:51am PDT
FAS Project on Government Secrecy: The Taguba Report The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) will investigate the decision to classify a U.S. Army report concerning the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel, its director said yesterday....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 9:00am PDT
Soldier Back From Iraq: Troops will continue die, but for what? PEOPLE!! soldiers have been hanging thier heads low a lot longer than you think! I was in Iraq for my tour, and will be deploying back within 6 to 10 months. I'm already hanging my head low! First we exhaust our military units, than we moblize guard and reserve units with out proper training, pretty much throwing them into the meat grinder. Most who deploy go to secure locations, where they never see what really happens on the streets. Unless you are on a convoy and it gets ambushed, or your ...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:42am PDT
US says 35 militia killed in al-Sadr City The US occupation force in Iraq claims to have killed 35 members of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:29am PDT
Iraqi group threatens Basra workers A previously unknown Iraqi group has vowed to abduct and kill foreign and Arab workers in Basra....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:28am PDT
Iraq Cleric to Widen War After U.S. Bombs Baghdad HQ NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Monday ordered his Mehdi Army to launch a broad new offensive against U.S.-led occupying forces following a U.S. crackdown on his strongholds in Baghdad and across the south....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:27am PDT
Most Britons Say U.K. Troops Must Leave Iraq By June 30 Most people interviewed, or 55 percent, said British troops should withdraw by June 30, the planned date for the transfer of Iraq's sovereignty to an interim government, with 16 percent supporting an immediate withdrawal, the newspaper cited the poll's findings....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 8:23pm PDT
Iraq abuse: US policy or anomaly? A key question which remains unresolved after the furore over the photos of alleged Iraqi prisoner abuse is to what extent the breaking of prisoner morale is still part of American policy....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 12:42pm PDT
Blast Kills Chechen President Akhmad Kaydrov And Possibly Col.-Gen. Valery Baranov 
GROZNY, Russia - The Kremlin-backed president of Russia's warring Chechnya region was killed Sunday when an explosion tore through a stadium in the Chechen capital where he was attending Victory Day observances marking the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, officials said....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 11:10am PDT
Seymour Hersh: Chain Of Command 
In his devastating report on conditions at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq, Major General Antonio M. Taguba singled out only three military men for praise. One of them, Master-at-Arms William J. Kimbro, a Navy dog handler, should be commended, Taguba wrote, because he “knew his duties and refused to participate in improper interrogations despite significant pressure from the MI”—military intelligence—“personnel at Abu Ghraib.” Elsewhere in the report it became clear what Kimbro would not do: Ameri...
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:44am PDT
Anti-occupation Iraqi group forms A pan-Iraqi group has been formed to oppose the occupation of Iraq and has immediately called for a meeting with UN envoy al-Akhdar al-Ibrahimi in a direct challenge to the country's US-appointed leadership....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:41am PDT
Political turmoil in Afghanistan The sacking of a district governor in Afghanistan has threatened to turn into a full blown political row between the Loya Jirga and President Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:39am PDT
Foreigners stoned to death in Kabul Two foreign nationals have been stoned to death in the Afghan capital Kabul, a government official has said....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:38am PDT
Egyptian paper prints front page photos of four Iraqi women being raped by U.S. soldiers Egypt's opposition daily Al-Wafd splashed four pictures on its front page showing what it said were Iraqi women being raped by soldiers....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 1:52am PDT
US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video The Bush administration was bracing itself last night for the release of new pictures and video footage from Abu Ghraib which show US soldiers having sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner, troops almost beating a prisoner to death, and the rape of young boys......
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 1:33am PDT
Pentagon OK'd Harsh Prison Techniques at Guantanamo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department last year approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba that include forcing inmates to strip naked and subjecting them to loud music, bright lights and sleep deprivation, the Washington Post reported on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 10:10pm PDT
Death in Detention 
May 7, 2004 — As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faces questioning on Capitol Hill over the abuse and humiliation of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, ABCNEWS has obtained new photographs in a case in which an Iraqi prisoner died at a makeshift prison camp run by U.S. Marines in southern Iraq....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 9:47pm PDT
Solidarity actions for anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch About 100 people, including a Black Bloc, participated in an unauthorized march in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch, passing by the court in which Marco will appear on May 10....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 5:39pm PDT
venezuela Week in Review- May 8th- HOV Solidarity with venezuela...
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 4:57pm PDT
Iraq Scandal Opens US to Charges of Double Standards The United States, which actively participates in an annual ritual of "bashing" countries like Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Sudan and Myanmar at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva and at the General Assembly sessions in New York, has lost its moral authority to point an accusing finger at miscreants when it has problems in its own backyard, say diplomats from developing nations....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:55pm PDT
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