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Snipers In Iraq: Killing By The Numbers
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver Why would these elite American soldiers kill an unarmed prisoner in cold blood? The answer: pressure from their commanding officers to pump up a statistic straight... ...
Ex-Prosecutor Calls War Tribunals Tainted
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/04/29/8605 -------- Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Says Trials Tainted Reuters reports "the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals testified... ...
US Prison Population Dwarfs That of Other Nations
Adam Liptak of the International Herald Tribune writes: "The United States has less than five percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners." http://www.tr uthout.org/docs_2006/04230 8T.shtml -------- Prison ... ...
What does it mean to call McCain a “war hero” candidate?
Christian Science Monitor by Charles Derber & Yale Magrass 04/14/08 In his first national campaign ad for president, John McCain is shown reciting his rank and serial number as he lies in a Vietnamese... ...
Evidence Grows of U.S. Use Of Drug On Prisoners
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation. All that's... ...
Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans "Prisoners of War"
Penny Coleman, writing for AlterNet, says the Pentagon holds thousands of Americans "prisoners of war." She says: "There are at least 60,000 of them, but they're not on the DOD's list of soldiers missing... ...
The Woman Behind the Camera at Abu Ghraib
In The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris write: "All that the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, a Reserve unit out of Cresaptown, Maryland, knew about America's biggest military... ...
Guantanamo Captive: I Was Threatened With Rape
The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg writes: "In a fresh document from the Guantanamo war court files, Canadian captive Omar Khadr alleges that he was repeatedly threatened with rape as an interrogation... ...
Veterans recall horrors of war in live broadcast
Boston Globe 03/16/08 Liz Jackson’s eyes were fixed on a screen showing a live broadcast of anguished testimonies by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans describing what they had seen and done during their... ...
Pentagon Uncovers Interrogation Tapes Showing Abuse
Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane report for The New York Times, "The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantanamo... ...