Abu ghraib

Abu Ghraib inmates sue, claiming torture

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states for alleged torture. The first complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Others are being filed in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; and Greenbelt, Md.

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Abu Ghraib Investigator Says Prison Inquiry Led to His Forced Retirement

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

n an interview with The New Yorker, his first since retiring in January, Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba said that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior civilian and military officials had treated him brusquely... He also said that in early 2006 he was ordered, without explanation, to retire within a year.

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Former Detainees Argue for Right to Sue Rumsfeld Over Torture

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

This is going to be big: "The hearing Friday, before Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan in Federal District Court in Washington, was the first time a federal court had considered whether top administration officials could be liable for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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12 Detainees Sue Rumsfeld in Germany, Citing Abuse

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

A week after President Bush announced that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld would resign, lawyers asked a German prosecutor to investigate Mr. Rumsfeld and other American officials for suspected war crimes stemming from the treatment of prisoners in military jails in Iraq and Cuba.

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Seymour Hersh in Seattle: Asks What Kind of People Are We?

Posted by Jeff

I went to see Seymour Hersh at Town Hall in Seattle. He gave a 90 minute lecture with 30 minute Q&A which was energetic, fast-paced – sometimes in its weak points rambling. But overall, it was a powerful overview of the corruption of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Bush and Rumsfeld’s policies of covert torture. An audience member asked at the end – what’s the story? Hersh responded that he guessed the story was Who Are We? What kind of a people sit back as their democracy crumbles at the whim of an idealogue like George W. Bush and do nothing?

Hersh also made some powerful points about Lebanon and Israel:

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"Nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib"

Posted by Billbar from Dailykos

Retired Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms is quoted in the Washington Post about the Haditha massacre: "When these investigations come out, there's going to be a firestorm. It will be worse than Abu Ghraib -- nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib." I heard this exact same line--"nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib"--several times yesterday from various pundits and news anchors. This is absolutely untrue.

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2nd Abu Ghraib Dog Handler's Trial Opens

Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

Maj. Matthew Miller said in his opening statement that Sgt. Santos A. Cardona harassed prisoners for "nothing more than the entertainment of the accused and the enjoyment of the other corrupt cops serving on the night shift at Abu Ghraib."

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