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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
By Jason Leopold | The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of “war on terror” detainees.
If al-Qahtani’s case had gone forward, the U.S. government would have been forced to reveal its own violations of ...
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UK to hold inquiry into Iraqi killings, victims of torture
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
IRNA | Defense Secretary Des Browne announced Wednesday an independent inquiry into the death and torture of Iraqi civilians in the custody of British soldiers. The inquiry will be held into the 2003 death of Basra hotel worker Baha Mousa, the alleged torture and ill treatment of his nine hotel colleagues and how it came about that the five techniques banned in ...
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Italian PM witness in CIA rendition trial
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A Milan judge ruled Wednesday that Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi, can be called as witnesses in a trial on the alleged abduction of a terrorism suspect by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Berlusconi who returned to office as premier last week was in power in 2003 when an Egyptian imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr - ...
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Judge May Make CIA Torture Memo Public
Friday, May 9th, 2008
AP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issued the order after he had earlier said the 18-page memo did not have to be turned over ...
tagged CIA and Torture
Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By William Fisher | As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly ...
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Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Marjorie Cohn | What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation ...
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‘Torture memo’ author, former attorney general, to testify
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AP | A former Justice Department lawyer who wrote a now-repudiated memo allowing harsh interrogations of military prisoners has agreed to testify to Congress about those practices, say House Judiciary Committee officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the panel has not yet made the announcement.John Yoo, now a law professor at University of California-Berkeley, has agreed to testify ...
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Iraqi alleges Abu Ghraib torture, sues US contractors
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
AP | An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a ...
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Pentagon Documents Highlight Torture Methods
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
By Adam Goldman | New York - The military continued to use abusive interrogation methods on detainees after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday after reviewing newly released documents.The Department of Defense documents shed light on the use of psychologists in military interrogations and the failure of medical workers to report abuse of ...
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Justice Department faulty torture justification exposed
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
By Stephen Soldz | Brian Tamanaha at Blakinization dissects the letters from the Justice Department to Senator Wyden that were reported in the New York Times last Saturday and that I wrote about here, and demonstrates the completely faulty and dishonest nature of the reasoning involved. According to Tamanaha , the trick used by ...
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Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
By Sam Provance | Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was the only uniformed military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib who broke the code of silence surrounding the infamous prisoner abuses. He spoke out during the Army's internal investigation, at a congressional hearing and in press interviews.For his brave integrity, Provance was punished and pushed out of the U.S. military, clearing ...
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Fourth Briton accuses MI5 of torture
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Ian Cobain - The Guardian | Human rights groups and MPs are calling for an investigation into claims that MI5 officers colluded in the torture of British citizens detained in Pakistan during counter-terrorism operations, after the allegations were detailed by the Guardian yesterday.
The demand came as a fourth Briton alleged that British officials "outsourced" ...
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MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
By Ian Cobain | Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects.
A number of British terrorism suspects who have been arrested in Pakistan at the ...
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CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Reuters | Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
The Justice Department's interpretation shows the Bush administration is contending that the boundaries should have a degree of latitude, the Times ...
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Gitmo Detainees’ Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By William Glaberson |
Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.
But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Mr. Hamdan has essentially been driven crazy by solitary ...
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