Real History and those behind the US Army Professionals in Iraq The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) The Geneva Convention matters because there can be no double standards. Some of what we’ve heard about here is not just softening up, it’s torture.
And in future, the same methods could be used against our troops [images added by this website] The road to ‘Camp Redemption’ THE mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners was the result of a fundamental shift in interrogation policy but at whose instigation?
Julian Coman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in Baghdad reveal how – and why – aggressive techniques from Guantanamo Bay were adopted in Abu Ghraib IN the front lobby of CACI International, the Virginia firm that provided US military forces with contract interrogators for the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, a flag from the days of the American rebellion against British rule is furled discreetly in a corner.
Beneath an image of a defiant rattlesnake is an old anti-colonial slogan that, after the revelations of the past fortnight, strikes an unhappy note: “Don’t Tread on Me.” As the world now knows, “high-security” Iraqi prisoners in cell blocks 1A and 1B of Abu Ghraib suffered far worse abuse than being trodden upon, much of it allegedly at the instigation of at least one CACI employee.
A military investigation has reported that Stefan Stefanowicz , one of 20,000 civilian contractors in Iraq, was instrumental in the mistreatment of prisoners at the Baghdad prison, which also involved military police and allegedly military intelligence officials. But confusion still reigns over what actually happened in the cell blocks last autumn. US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez , Commander of the coalition forces in Iraq during his flight on a C-130 plane from Kuwait City to Baghdad, Iraq, May 13 CACI refuses to comment on the case. Several of the seven military policemen and women facing court martial for prisoner abuse are blaming their immediate superiors. In Baghdad last Thursday, the beleaguered US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld , presented the scandal as an isolated, shameful case involving a handful of military police.
The International Red Cross , however, has complained for months about widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners. To get to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib scandal, said a Pentagon adviser, it is necessary to go