Abu Ghraib Abuse

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Abu Ghraib Inmates Attack Guards

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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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 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Torture, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

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 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Senator-Graham-Military, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Torture, Politics News

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 06.07.2009 | World

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 06.02.2009 | World

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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 05.24.2009 | World

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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 05.23.2009 | Politics

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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 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Us Federal Court, Abu Ghraib Victims, Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Caci, Abu Ghraib Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, Iraq, Abu Ghraib Detainees, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Inter Press Service, World News

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 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney Interview, Dick Cheney, CIA Interrogations, Terrorism, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

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 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Journalists, Women's Rights, Islam, War on Terror, Timothy McVeigh, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Global War on Terror, Chinese, Tibet, London, War on Terrorism, Islamophobia, Madrid, Bush Administration Torture, Arabs, Sudan, National Security, Guantanamo Bay, Darfur Sudan, Amman, Abu Ghraib Abuse, CIA Interrogations, Cruelty, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Mumbai, Bali, Russia Georgia Conflict, Russia Georgia War, Sudan Genocide, Nairobi, New York City, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Robert F. Kennedy, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Counterterrorism, Prison, Abu Ghraib Torture, Alberto Mora, Torture, Politics News

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 02.24.2009 | World

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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 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, George W. Bush, Obama, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

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 01.18.2009 | Politics

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 10.04.2008 | Home

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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 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lynndie England, Sexual Torture, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Torture, Sex Torture, Torture and Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Torture, Sexual Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News

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 07.09.2008 | Politics

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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 06.26.2008 | Politics

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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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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Errol Morris, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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Abu Ghraib Photographer: Excerpts From Her Interviews

New Yorker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Detainee Abuse, Abu Ghraib Photos, Abu Ghraib Documentary, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Detainees, Politics News

This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris write about Sabrina Harman, a U.S. Army specialist who took photographs at Abu Ghraib an...

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Graphic New Abu Ghraib Photos Released (NSFW)

Wired | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard who was court-martialed, psychologist Philip Zimbardo had acc...

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Charges Cleared For Only Officer Tried Over Abu Ghraib Abuses

ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colonel Steven Jordan, Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Warwire, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

After a week-long court martial in August, Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, 51, who oversaw the Abu Ghraib interrogations centre from September to De...

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