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« Previous EntriesUS torture claims are unreliable: British lawmakers
Saturday, July 19th, 2008The British government should no longer accept US assurances that it does not use torture, a parliamentary oversight committee said on Sunday in a wide-ranging report looking at London's human rights policy. Ministers have previously taken at face value statements from their US counterparts, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George ...
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Ashcroft defends waterboarding before House panel
Saturday, July 19th, 2008The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday. Testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question from Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina. "Waterboarding, as we all know, is a controversial issue. Do you think it served a beneficial purpose?" the congressman asked. "The ...
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Video of Interrogation of Gitmo Teen Released
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008By IAN AUSTEN | OTTAWA — The video is blurry and the soundtrack muffled, but the technical shortcomings of the video recordings released Tuesday did not obscure the emotions of Omar Khadr as he was interrogated at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Mr. Khadr, just 16 years old at the time of the ...
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Failed asylum-seekers are abused by private security companies, says report
Monday, July 14th, 2008By Robert Verkaik and Chris Green | Britain is responsible for the abuse of hundreds of failed asylum-seekers at the hands of private security guards during their forced removal from this country, a report into the treatment of refugees alleges today. The findings, based on nearly 300 cases of alleged physical assault and racial abuse, follows a four-year investigation into concerns about the control and use of private security ...
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Khadr interrogation raises troubling questions
Monday, July 14th, 2008Canadian officials knew youth was being tortured By Michelle Shephard | The first time Omar Khadr was questioned, he was lying in a military hospital bed in Afghanistan with two gaping holes in his chest – the exit wounds of the bullets that were shot through his back before his capture by U.S. Special Forces. Interrogators at the Bagram U.S. Military Base kept one ...
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New Book Reveals Existence of Secret Red Cross Torture Report
Monday, July 14th, 2008By Kate Klonick | In a secret report last year, the International Committee of the Red Cross found that the CIA's interrogation techniques were "categorically" torture, a new book reveals. From the New York Times: The book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," by Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker, ...
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Iraqis tortured by UK military settle case for $6M
Sunday, July 13th, 2008By GREGORY KATZ | A major case involving the abuse and torture of 10 Iraqi civilians at the hands of the British military was settled Thursday, with lawyers for the victims saying the Ministry of Defense agreed to pay them just under $6 million. The settlement involves the family of slain hotel clerk Baha Mousa and nine others who suffered injuries while in the custody of British ...
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Mukasey Refuses to Probe CIA Interrogations
Saturday, July 12th, 2008By JASON RYAN | Attorney General Michael Mukasey has notified the House Judiciary Committee that he will not appoint special counsel to investigate the actions of CIA officers and agents who conducted detainee interrogations that included controversial methods such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning. The controversial interrogation practices were authorized by lawyers from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers, ...
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SECRET RED CROSS REPORT SAYS THE CIA TORTURED AL QAEDA DETAINEES
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Progress Report | "Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level al Qaeda prisoners constituted torture," according to a new book by investigative reporter Jane Mayer. The report found that the Bush administration "may have committed 'grave breaches' of the Geneva Conventions" and that the officials who approved the methods could be "guilty of war crimes." The report, ...
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Want some torture with your peanuts?
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008By Jeffrey Denning | Just when you thought you’ve heard it all... A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would ...
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There’s even more evidence that Bush was wrong on torture approach
Monday, July 7th, 2008Who would have thought that Chinese communists would become a model for U.S. interrogators? What a disgrace. The New York Times reported last week that U.S. military trainers at the Guant�namo Bay prison in 2002 taught a set of interrogation techniques that originated with a 1957 Air Force study of how Chinese communists forced confessions, often false, out of American prisoners in the Korean War. U.S. ...
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China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008By SCOTT SHANE | The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese ...
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CACI Denies Use of Torture in Iraq
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008CACI International, an Arlington-based provider of interrogators to the U.S. military in Iraq, said it "rejects and denies" allegations from four Iraqi men who said they were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison. The "unfounded" claims filed in lawsuits are a "rehash of the previous slanderous lawsuits," CACI said in a statement. Similar lawsuits filed in the past four years await trial....
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Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008By Jon Henley | Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of "extreme interrogation" and "outright torture". From this, his foes inferred that since it was Hitchens' belief that America did not stoop to the latter, the practice ...
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From triumph to torture: John Pilger on Mohammed Omer’s treatment by Israel
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008By John Pilger | Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or "official drivel", as Gellhorn called it. Mohammed shares the prize of £5,000 with Dahr Jamail. At 24, he is the youngest winner. His citation reads: ...
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