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WECT-TV6
March 19, 2018
He returned to handle the fallout from prisoner mistreatment at Abu Ghraib, the U.S. prison in Iraq. Dick McGraw talks about those assignments, and retiring for a second time to Wilmington, in this behind-the-scenes podcast interview. You can listen to the entire interview with Dick McGraw on the free “1on1ÃÂ ...
Press Herald
March 18, 2018
But the graphic abuses committed by U.S. forces decades later at Abu Ghraib prison during the war in Iraq, along with the CIA's torture of detainees, raise the question of whether any reform, no matter how effective, can ever fully eliminate the danger. In terms of history, the significance of My Lai remainsÃÂ ...
Vox
March 18, 2018
Detainees at those sites were subject to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” cruel and abusive treatment that amounted to torture ... Since Spring 2004, when 60 Minutes II revealed the disturbing pictures of appalling prisoner abuse at the notorious Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, journalists and others haveÃÂ ...
charlestonchronicle.net
March 16, 2018
The Army has five military police units that specialize in detention camp liaison, but very few know what that even means outside of those units. Their purpose is to prevent one of the most horrific prison incidents in U.S. Army history from happening again–Abu Ghraib, in which Iraqi prisoners were tortured,ÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 28, 2018
CACI employees conducted interrogations alongside military intelligence personnel at Abu Ghraib, and plaintiffs allege that CACI employees were the de facto supervisors and expressly ordered military personnel to “soften up,” “rough up” or “humiliate” detainees. One military investigation into the abusesÃÂ ...
Yeni Şafak English
February 28, 2018
Those who were released in 2011 and 2012 were then planted in terrorist organizations by the al-Mukhabarat (Syrian intelligence organization), and it was the U.S.'s Abu Ghraib prison model in Iraq which served as an example for the regime's actions on this matter,” said Majni. He also stated that all terrorÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 28, 2018
CACI employees conducted interrogations alongside military intelligence personnel at Abu Ghraib, and plaintiffs allege that CACI employees were the de facto supervisors and expressly ordered military personnel to “soften up,” “rough up” or “humiliate” detainees. One military investigation into the abusesÃÂ ...
Courthouse News Service
February 22, 2018
... during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, but former Abu Ghraib detainees say the defense contractor's employees were responsible or complicit in a host of abuses that first came to light in 2004 with the release of photographs depicting the abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by grinning soldiers.
Bloomberg BNA
February 22, 2018
A contrary ruling, though, would have left state and local governments—and their taxpayers—holding the bag for a prisoner's attorneys' fees, Lisa ... What happened at Abu Ghraib prison happens in the U.S., too, Shapiro told Bloomberg Law, referring to the mistreatment and torture of Muslim prisoners byÃÂ ...
Law360
February 22, 2018
Law360 (February 22, 2018, 6:53 PM EST) -- Several former prisoners of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison failed to plausibly support direct liability claims against a CACI International unit over its employees' alleged torture and abuse of detainees, but a Virginia federal judge did back their conspiracy and aiding andÃÂ ...
Shadowproof (blog)
February 21, 2018
The alleged torture took place at a part of Abu Ghraib known as the “Hard Site,” which was a “relatively small section of the complex controlled by American military forces that housed detainees who were suspected to be of 'military intelligence value.'” As described in the decision, al-Ejaili, who was aÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 8, 2018
Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist organizations have pointed to Gitmo—along with the abuses at Abu Ghraib, CIA dark sites, and civilian casualties inflicted by ... The administration took the position that such detainees were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions due to prisoners of war,ÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
October 1, 2017
That's why prisoner abuse under Saddam was torture, but under the US it is simply "disgraceful conduct". That's also why Bush can talk about ... This is of particular importance as CACI has largely evaded accountability for their direct role in the torture of Abu Ghraib prisoners. Highlighting this point, CCRÃÂ ...
VICE
December 31, 1999
There was no real Somali authority in place to punish or incarcerate prisoners the Canadians apprehended. So a number of morally questionable measures were employed to deal with the problem. Children caught stealing were bound, blindfolded, and left in the sun for hours, with a sign bearing the wordÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
Haspel was sent by the chief of the CIA's counterterrorism section, Jose Rodriquez, the "handpicked warden of the first secret prison the CIA created to handle al-Qaeda detainees," according to a little-noticed recent article in Reader Supported News by John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism officer.
Miami Herald
December 31, 1999
Pohl was handling the court martial cases of U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. RELATED: Sept. 11 judge has handled tough cases before, a 2012 profile. He said he considered the declarations “simply the first step” toward sorting out the question of why the men were fired.
New Statesman
February 25, 2018
Her brother was assaulted by the local police department, enduring acts that would later widely be described as torture; indeed, Khan-Cullors draws a compelling parallel between his treatment and that of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of the US army in Abu Ghraib. Elsewhere, Khan-Cullors tells us the storyÃÂ ...
Berkshire Eagle
February 24, 2018
The box that holds the towels is also an acknowledgement of the famous photo from Abu Ghraib, in which the Iraqi prisoner is fit with a hood and attached to electric wires. The photo horrified and stuck with Howard enough that the box has appeared in previous paintings. In the annals of the banality of evil,ÃÂ ...
The Nation.
February 23, 2018
The terrorist organization germinated in the cells of Camp Bucca, one of the myriad US prisons holding thousands of Iraqi detainees. In 2004, when the torture scandal in Abu Ghraib, another US prison, became public, there were 140,000 US troops occupying Iraq. We need to remember that fact as weÃÂ ...
Bloomberg BNA
February 23, 2018
A contrary ruling, though, would have left state and local governments—and their taxpayers—holding the bag for a prisoner's attorneys' fees, Lisa ... What happened at Abu Ghraib prison happens in the U.S., too, Shapiro told Bloomberg Law, referring to the mistreatment and torture of Muslim prisoners byÃÂ ...
Law360
February 23, 2018
Law360 (February 22, 2018, 6:53 PM EST) -- Several former prisoners of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison failed to plausibly support direct liability claims against a CACI International unit over its employees' alleged torture and abuse of detainees, but did back their conspiracy and aiding and abetting claims, a VirginiaÃÂ ...
Shadowproof (blog)
February 22, 2018
The alleged torture took place at a part of Abu Ghraib known as the “Hard Site,” which was a “relatively small section of the complex controlled by American military forces that housed detainees who were suspected to be of 'military intelligence value.'” As described in the decision, al-Ejaili, who was aÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 8, 2018
Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist organizations have pointed to Gitmo—along with the abuses at Abu Ghraib, CIA dark sites, and civilian casualties inflicted by ... The administration took the position that such detainees were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions due to prisoners of war,ÃÂ ...
The Independent
February 1, 2018
Trump has suggested that new prisoners from the conflict in Syria and Iraq may be sent to Guantanamo. .... It was from the US prisons at Camp Bucca that most of the Isis leaders eventually emerged, with a renewed hatred of a country that committed the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and beyond. In 2015ÃÂ ...
Just Security
January 11, 2018
While that cost runs both to the remaining detainees and, in a more macro sense, to the identity and psyche of the United States itself, my focus here is the ... proved accurate; the torture the military first tested at Guantanamo would soon spread to Afghanistan, and then to Iraq, culminating in Abu Ghraib.
Jamaica Observer
January 11, 2018
2002: The first 20 Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees from the US campaign in Afghanistan arrive at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for possible questioning and trial. 2003: The ... 2008: Eleven US soldiers are convicted and five officers disciplined in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
Fort Worth Star Telegram
January 9, 2018
Mattis said he understood the sentiment but assured the insurgent he was headed for Abu Ghraib, the infamous U.S.-run prison. What happened next explains the point of the story. "General," the man asked Mattis, "if I am a model prisoner do you think someday I could emigrate to America?"ÃÂ ...
Sentinel-Tribune
January 9, 2018
Steven L. Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. Five years ago: Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence as her Arizona hometown paused toÃÂ ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
January 9, 2018
Steven L. Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. Five years ago: Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence as her Arizona hometown paused toÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
January 5, 2018
Did you spend any time at the Apple Store this holiday season? It was this week in 2007 that Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first iPhone, what he called “a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device.” A decade later, Apple CEOÃÂ ...
The Week Magazine
December 22, 2017
This process of dehumanization has been invoked to explain acts of violence ranging from the Holocaust and the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib to the ethnic violence against the Rohingya people. However, our recent research suggests that this explanation is mistaken. After all, the failure to recognizeÃÂ ...
OpenCanada
December 21, 2017
... “the good guys” were evident. Arkady's photos and video, along with great reporting from The Toronto Star's Mitch Potter, Michelle Shephard and Bruce Campion-Smith, reveal the gruesome torture of detainees held by Iraqi soldiers, reminiscent of the infamous detainee abuse documented at Abu Ghraib.
Chicago Sun-Times
December 20, 2017
But he was shaken and disgusted in 2004, when he read about abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by U.S. captors. “He was ashamed,” said Cynthia Ohlrich. “He said, 'We were supposed to treat our prisoners [at Sugamo] with dignity. We were never supposed to abuse them, talk to themÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 20, 2017
Evidence has emerged in the following years of members of the U.S. military and the CIA torturing prisoners in Iraq, particularly at the Abu Ghraib prison. Such methods included sleep deprivation, nudity, slapping prisoners in the face, food deprivation, waterboarding, and walling, where a detainee isÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 15, 2017
In this undated still photo, an Iraqi detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison appears to be intimidated by a U.S. soldier using an trained dog. ... from American forums and audiences, whether because of the dismissal of cases on the basis of state secrets, gag orders on detainees and their lawyers, travel bans, or otherÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
October 1, 2017
That's why prisoner abuse under Saddam was torture, but under the US it is simply "disgraceful conduct". That's also why Bush can talk about ... This is of particular importance as CACI has largely evaded accountability for their direct role in the torture of Abu Ghraib prisoners. Highlighting this point, CCRÃÂ ...
Dothan Eagle
December 31, 1999
2008: Steven L. Jordan. 2008: Steven L. Jordan. Ten years ago: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. APÃÂ ...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
Steven L. Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Brazilian painter Candido Portinari, stolen from Brazil's Sao Paulo Museum in December 2007, were recovered. Five years ago: Former Rep. GabrielleÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
According to a separate statement, the second man was arrested in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad. ... their rise in 2014, the Islamic State (IS) stormed the US base of Camp Speicher, near the central city of Tikrit, and tricked Iraqi soldiers, who were held prisoners, into thinking they would be reunited with their families.
Jakarta Post
December 5, 2017
Eric Stover gave a lecture in front of college students and various invitees about how torture was employed to extract information from prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The detainees were mostly detained without trial during attempts by the US to fight terrorism. First held in 2015, ...
lareviewofbooks
December 4, 2017
The cruelty at Abu Ghraib was elaborately photographed; it was meant to be viewed by the prison guards and torturers (perhaps even for their pleasure, ... After waterboarding, the prisoner's voice is so small that in the case of Abu Zubaydah, when he tried to speak CIA memos record that he had only ...
HuffPost
November 18, 2017
The chief prosecutor noted the alleged crimes by the CIA and US armed forces “were not the abuses of a few isolated individuals,” but rather were “part of approved interrogation techniques in an attempt to extract 'actionable intelligence' from detainees.” She added there was “reason to believe” that crimes ...
International Policy Digest
November 10, 2017
In 2004 CBS News published photos of the brutal humiliation, abuse, and torture of US captives in the Abu Ghraib prison. Similar cruelty was confirmed in Guantanamo Bay and other Black site detention centers across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Poland. In the end, 90% of prisoners at Abu Ghraib were found to ...
Akron Beacon Journal
October 22, 2017
Today, at times, the noise level resembles the barrage of sound the military used to break down prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Metallica at 80Â ...
GQ Magazine
October 20, 2017
... other than the "interrogation tactics" approved by his administration that resulted in the torture and deaths of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Deadline
October 16, 2017
A former U.S. Army specialist who questioned prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, as well as several other facilities around Iraq, said he ...
National Catholic Reporter
October 5, 2017
"Indefinite detention is not only injurious to detainees, but it also compromises ... urged the closing of Guantanamo because it, like Abu Ghraib (prison in Iraq), ... of basic human rights and detainee abuse," Bishop Cantu wrote.
Common Dreams
October 1, 2017
It was Abu Ghraib prison that introduced the world to the violent infrastructure of torture in the war on terror. In 2004, when photos emerged documenting extensive torture ranging from prisoners on leashes to bodies piled atop each other in pyramid structure to prisoners standing in crucifixion like postures, ...
Aljazeera.com
October 1, 2017
That's why prisoner abuse under Saddam was torture, but under the ... To date, Abu Ghraib prisoners have seen little, if any, justice for the torture they endured. ... conspiracy, dereliction of duty, and maltreatment of detainees.
Legal Reader (blog)
September 26, 2017
Prisoners at Abu Ghraib were subjected to a litany of abuses and ... soften up the detainees for questioning with tactics that amounted to torture, ...
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