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Knowledge of Prisoner Abuse Investigation "Severely and Unusually Restricted" We speak with Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker which just released a series of photos showing what appears to be a dog attacking a naked Iraqi prisoner. And we hear Sen. John McCain questioning Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Senate and House Armed Services Committee. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:42pm PDT
Pipeline blast cuts Iraq's oil experts; U.S. forces clash with militiamen KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents blasted an oil pipeline, setting off a huge blaze and slashing Iraq's daily oil exports by about 25 per cent. U.S. troops traded gunfire Monday with fighters loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in this Shiite city south of Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:36pm PDT
Iraq: It’s all over now The situation in Iraq is “disintegration verging on collapse”, said Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the United Nations, on the last day of April. It was a month that saw more American troops killed than during last year’s invasion, a decisive US defeat in the siege of Fallouja, and horrific revelations about the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by both American and British soldiers. It may be years yet before the helicopters pluck the last Americans off the roof of the B...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:34pm PDT
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
Red Cross told Iraq abuse 'part of the process' The Red Cross saw US troops keeping Iraqi prisoners naked for days in darkness at the Abu Ghraib jail in October and was told by the intelligence officer in charge it was "part of the process", a leaked report said...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:32am 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
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
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
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
Former Iraqi Rights Minister Says Abuses Continue PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq's former human rights minister Abdul Basset Turki said abuses of Iraqi prisoners had been going on at all U.S. bases since the occupation began, with some taking place as recently as last week...
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:50pm PDT
No plans to close Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison: U.S. commander BAGHDAD (AP) - The commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq said Saturday the military will continue to operate the Abu Ghraib prison, despite calls from some U.S. legislators to close it because of a scandal over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:49pm PDT
'I was beaten for three days by British soldiers' An Iraqi prisoner has described how he was allegedly subjected to vicious beatings by laughing British soldiers during interrogation sessions which left another man dead....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:35pm PDT
US troops surround Karbala Karbala - Heavy black smoke was seen rising over Karbala Saturday as US tanks and armoured vehicles encircled the centre of the holy Shiite city, according to witnesses....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:14pm PDT
US soldiers abused young girl at Iraqi prison The US military has said it will investigate claims by a former inmate of Abu Ghraib prison that a girl as young as 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:10pm PDT
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