Abu Ghraib Abuse

Torture: Blinking In The Face Of Evil

Satpal Singh | Posted 10.30.2011

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Satpal Singh

Many religions believe in a compassionate God, and that all humans are children of God. When most of us would shudder just thinking about our child being tortured, how can we justify the brutalization of God's sons and daughters?

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Convicted Abu Ghraib Abuse Ringleader Released From Prison

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 10.06.2011

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The convicted ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib was released Saturday from a military prison, an Army spokeswoman said. Charles Graner Jr.,...

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Supreme Court Rejects Abu Ghraib Lawsuit

AP | Posted 08.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq who wanted to sue defense contractors ov...

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Political Interference With Torture Investigations Is Un-American

Human Rights First | Posted 08.16.2011

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Human Rights First

Almost a decade after reports of death and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib and other sites came to light, the prosecutor appointed to look into some of these serious, criminal allegations is reportedly moving forward.

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Grand Jury Investigates Torture In Abu Ghraib Death

Time | Adam Zagorin | Posted 08.13.2011

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It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner known as "the Iceman" — for the bungled attempt to cool his body and make him...

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Pentagon Braces For Huge WikiLeaks Dump On Iraq War

Yahoo! News | Phil Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pentagon said on Sunday it had a 120-member team prepared to review a massive leak of as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents, which are expected to...

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The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Exorcised?

Jerrold D. Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerrold D. Green

By starting the unorthodox practice of permitting family members to visit those in custody, there is an increasingly large group of Afghans who have experienced positive exposure to US personnel and operations in Afghanistan.

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Abu Ghraib Unit To Return To Iraq

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Army Reserve unit tarnished by the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal has been mobilized to return to Iraq in its first dep...

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Inmates Attack Guards At Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Abu Ghraib prison inmates rioted for a second straight day Friday to demand better conditions, setting fire to mattresses and seizing ...

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Why No Investigation?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Naomi Wolf

Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?

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War is Torture

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Ayers

I would like to balance this crazy talk about whether torture is good policy with a counter-balancing, air-clearing, broad assertion: war is torture.

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Torture Images From Set Of Standard Operating Procedure Retell Story Of Abu Ghraib

Huffington Post Contributors | Nubar Alexanian and Katharine Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Photographs by Nubar Alexanian Text by Katharine Thomas One of President Obama's first executive decisions in office was to prohibit the use of inte...

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Abu Ghraib Guards: We Were Scapegoats For Bush

Times London | Tim Reid | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently r...

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Prison Abuse Photos From Iraq, Afghanistan To Be Released By Pentagon

Los Angeles Times | Peter Wallsten, Julian Barnes and Greg Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S. personnel ...

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Abu Ghraib Head: Bush Administration Scapegoated Us

CBS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was insistent that all orders on interrogat...

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Abu Ghraib Victims May Sue: US Court Ruling

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK, Apr 16 (IPS) - In a ruling that could have widespread implications for government contractors overseas, a federal court has concluded that...

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Cheney's Deflection of the Truth

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Malou Innocent

Despite what Vice President Cheney wants Americans to believe, his favored policies have neither made us safer nor limited the ability of terrorists to plan another attack.

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kerry Kennedy

A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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Abu Ghraib Prison To Reopen -- With Facelift And New Name

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it's getting a facelift and a new name, a senior justice official sai...

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Obama Prompted To Prosecute Bush

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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With few exceptions the transition period has been a model of presidential goodwill and cooperation. Apparently, the curious users who have been submi...

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna Huffington

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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Abu Ghraib To Reopen, Museum Planned

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. p...

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Sex Crimes in the White House

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Naomi Wolf

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

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Abu Ghraib Inmates Sue Contractors, Claiming Torture

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detai...

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General Who Probed Abu Ghraib: Bush Officials Committed 'War Crimes'

McClatchy Newspapers | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "wa...

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