Prisoners of War

Father Of Prisoner Of War Promises Captive Son 'You Will Come Home'

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The father of a U.S. soldier who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan thanked the motorcycle riders of Rolling Thunder on Sunday for raisin...

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36 Years Later, Search Boosted For MIA Vietnam Servicemen

Posted 10.04.2011

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Forty-one years after his helicopter crashed in Vietnam, George “Andy” Howes finally made it home to Knox, Ind. for a proper funeral, the Departm...

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Investigating Bush-Cheney Torture Policies "By the Book"

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoyt Hilsman

It would be betrayal of the sacrifices of Americans like my grandfather to selectively prosecute the low-level offenders at Abu Ghraib and ignore the policy makers who set the violations of the Geneva Convention in motion.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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