CNN reports the prisoner population in Iraq has DOUBLED in the last five months. Remember how they paid lip service to the notion that the prisons were overflowing with (90% innocent) people? Well, now it is worse. Twice as worse.
CNN reports the prisoner population in Iraq has DOUBLED in the last five months. Remember how they paid lip service to the notion that the prisons were overflowing with (90% innocent) people? Well, now it is worse. Twice as worse.
This is what happens when no one is accountable to the law.
“It’s untidy. And freedom’s untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”-Donald Rumsfeld, 2003
Bob Herbert, as I’ve said before, is the best columnist at the New York Times.
Read this and you will see why. Yes, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman are good, but they are not this good.
Wall Street Journal editorial:
Whether Mr. DeLay violated the small print of House Ethics or campaign-finance rules is thus largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out.
The opening shot of the final phase was this MUST READ LA TIMES ARTICLE
In this story from Knight Ridder News Service, an Army reservist under investigation for murdering a prisoner talks about how they were taught to administer the sort of beatings which killed at least one detainee. This technique of “compliance blows” (kneeing someone in the thighs, where it doesn’t show ) was then used on men who were handcuffed with their arms above thier heads. I guess they weren’t “complying.”
excerpt:
According to an Army investigation, Habibullah was so badly hurt by repeated knee strikes that “even if he survived, both legs would have had to be amputated.”
Story appeared in Ft Worth paper, which is a regstration only site. Full text behind the cut.
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AP - all based on government documents.
Records previously released by the Army have detailed abuses at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq as well as at sites in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The documents released Friday were the first to reveal abuses at the jail in Mosul and are among the few to allege torture directly.
“There is evidence that suggests the 311th MI personnel and/or translators engaged in physical torture of the detainees,” a memo from the investigator said. The January 2004 report said the prisoners’ rights under the Geneva Conventions were violated.
NEW YORK TIMES-FOIA release of FBI documents show it was WORSE than Moore stated in his film:
“Although the F.B.I. took all possible steps to prevent any individuals who were involved in or had knowledge of the 9/11/2001 attacks from leaving the U.S. before they could be interviewed,” a 2003 memo said, “it is not possible to state conclusively that no such individuals left the U.S. without F.B.I. knowledge.”
AP doesn’t explain who these “guards” are. Were they Iraqis, or mercenaries?