Iraq
« Previous EntriesUS, Allies, Torture Kids in Iraqi Prisons
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Sherwood Ross Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the U.S. has detained thousands of juveniles---some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. Some estimates put the number as high as 6,000. While the criminal abuse of male prisoners at Abu Ghraib is well known, child and women prisoners held there have also been tortured and raped, according to ...
tagged Iraq
Iraq holding thousands in secret prisons: lawmaker
Friday, October 31st, 2008Iraqi opposition lawmaker claims government holding thousands in unofficial prisons An Iraqi opposition lawmaker claimed Thursday that thousands of his countrymen are being mistreated in detention centers outside the official prison system. Sunni legislator Mohammed al-Daini claimed the government and paramilitary groups control 420 unofficial detention centers to hold people without legal justification. Speaking through an interpreter, al-Daini told reporters in Geneva he had gained access to 13 such prisons and obtained ...
tagged Iraq
Iraq seeks changes to U.S. troops pact
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008By Mariam Karouny and Peter Graff | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq demanded changes to a draft security pact with the United States Tuesday after it failed to win the support of its political leaders despite months of painstaking negotiations with Washington. The announcement effectively reopens negotiations which had led last week to the unveiling of a draft that would require U.S. forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. The ...
tagged Iraq
Iraqi government fuels ‘war for oil’ theories by putting reserves up for biggest ever sale
Monday, October 13th, 2008Terry Macalister and Nicholas Watt | The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London. BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani. Access is being given ...
tagged Iraq and Oil
Govt. Uses Contractors to Probe Iraq Contractors
Monday, October 6th, 2008In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq. Earlier this year, the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security hired the private firm U.S. Investigations Services (USIS) to fill positions in the newly created Force Investigation Unit (FIU) that investigates potential misuses of force against civilians by U.S. security contractors. The contract investigators ...
tagged Iraq
U.S. to fund pro-American publicity in Iraq
Friday, October 3rd, 2008$300 million media program meant to 'engage and inspire' local population By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus | MSNBC.com The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to "engage and inspire" the local population to support U.S. objectives and the Iraqi government. The ...
tagged Iraq
Blackwater Machine Gun Found in Raid on Iraqi Insurgents
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Incident Was Kept Secret and Raises More Questions About the Firm's Iraq Operations By Brian Ross | ABCNews.com An M4 machine gun sent to Iraq by the Blackwater private security firm somehow disappeared from the company's storage facility in Baghdad and was later discovered during a US military operation, apparently against suspected insurgents, people familiar with the situation have told ABC News. The incident, in 2006, has been kept secret until ...
tagged Iraq
Winter Soldier: Eye Witness Accounts of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008By John Stauber | Two years ago public revulsion against the Bush Administration's unnecessary and disastrous attack and occupation of Iraq resulted in the Democratic Party taking control of the US Congress. But Nancy Pelosi and the new political leadership backed down before President ...
tagged Afghanistan and Iraq
YOUTHS BEATEN AND RAPED IN BRUTAL IRAQ PRISONS
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008By Jonathan Steele in Baghdad | Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say. At Karkh juvenile prison, Omar Ali, a 16-year-old who has spent more than three years ...
tagged Iraq
IRAQ: U.S. Blamed for Increasing Iranian Influence
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Inter Press Service | Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from. Badr is being trained ostensibly to defend Shia leaders, under increased attacks from militant groups. Dawa is a Shia dominated party, ...
tagged Iraq
Leaked: US-Iraqi agreement
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Translated by Raed Jarrar | I read about a leaked copy of the US-Iraqi agreement a few days ago when a radio station in Iraq mentioned some of its details, then it was mentioned in some Arab newspapers like Al-Qabas and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. A couple of days ago, one Iraqi website (linked to an Iraqi armed resistance group) published the leaked draft on their web page for less ...
tagged Iraq and USA-News
US out of Iraq by … “2011″
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By PATRICK COCKBURN | The United States is moving towards ending its military control of Iraq by agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June next year and from the rest of Iraq by 2011, according Iraqi and American negotiators. The withdrawal of US troops to bases outside the cities, towns and villages would make the Iraqi government, whose security forces number half a ...
tagged Iraq
Could Iris Scans Stop a New Iraq Insurgency?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By Noah Shachtman | Iraq's government and Sunni militias appear to be headed for a showdown. One of the things that just might keep a full-blown insurgency from erupting again, a leading expert in the region says, is a set of databases of fingerprints and irises, built by the U.S. military -- and fed with data from Saddam. The extra troops get all the credit, ...
tagged Iraq
U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By PAUL VON ZIELBAUER | In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two of the soldiers said ...
tagged Iraq
Documents reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings
Monday, August 25th, 2008By Nick Juliano | New documents from within the Bush administration and US intelligence community during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq reveal that the White House began assembling a case for war before it had compiled the intel that ostensibly formed the basis of that case. A new report on the documents from George Washington University's National Security Archive also presents compelling evidence that the Bush administration pressured ...
tagged Iraq
« Previous Entries
Free Newsletter
Loading ...Related News
- Judge dismisses lawsuit against Rumsfeld
- Iraq: Security pact ‘puts detainees at risk of torture’
- More Than 10,000 Detainees Released in Iraq
- Ex-Abu Ghraib prisoners sue US contractors, claim torture
- Doctors’ Report Finds Evidence of U.S. Torture and ‘War Crimes’
Latest Headlines
- What’s Wrong with the U.S. Military
- Noam Chomsky and the Innate Humanity in the Human Brain
- ‘THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER’ INSIST ANTI-CENTROS CAMPAIGNERS
- Smash EDO: Online map reveals the extent of police brutality
- Nearly half of all criminals escape the DNA database say Lib Dems
- ID Cards Under Fire
- Security agreements mean Iraq occupation will continue to 2012 and beyond
- Police turn on anti-government Facebookers
- Feds to Judge: Don’t ‘Second Guess’ Bush Domestic Spy Program
- ID cards are not voluntary
Archive