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CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations
Read More »Gitmo suicide had been prisoners’ representative
Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with the military and left his jailhouse for a meeting with the detention camp’s most
Read More »Afghan Violence Hit ‘All Time High’ Last Week
By Jason Ditz | General David Petraeus today announced that violence in Afghanistan had hit its highest level since the 2001 US invasion last week, adding “there is no question the situation has deteriorated
Read More »New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
By Bill Van Auken | Confirmed Wednesday as President Barack Obama’s new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, General Stanley McChrystal has been given extraordinary powers to assemble his own staff.
Read More »CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality
It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected terrorists to overseas facilities where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Some sessions were recorded on videotape. Using the
Read More »KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’
By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by a pension-fund shareholder of paying bribes, making false claims and operating as criminal
Read More »Human Rights Watch accuses DRC troops of war crimes
By Frank Nyakairu | NAIROBI (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Democratic Republic of Congo’s army on Tuesday of widespread abuses against civilians that it said amounted to war crimes. Congolese soldiers and
Read More »Soldiers protected by human rights laws
British troops are protected by human rights laws even while fighting overseas, according to a landmark judgment Monday centred on a soldier who died of heatstroke in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said
Read More »CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes will be compromised if the agency is forced to turn over detailed documents to the American
Read More »Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan
On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three facilities in Iraq. One of them was Camp Nama, which was operated by
Read More »Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases
As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo “terrorists in our neighborhoods,” France agreed to accept a “cleared” Guantánamo prisoner and human rights groups continued to press for release of 17 Chinese Uighurs
Read More »Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation torture
By Greg Miller | Reporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the CIA’s use of severe interrogation methods, the White House fielded a flurry of last-minute
Read More »War crime in Sri Lanka: Civilians slaughtered by army shelling
By Bill Van Auken | In what constitutes a blatant war crime by the Sri Lankan government, the army’s merciless bombardment of a so-called no-fire zone, a small strip of land on the country’s
Read More »Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue
By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s controversial detention program have fueled a fierce debate over whether mental-health professionals should give advice on warfare, and
Read More »Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
By Noah Shachtman | The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense Department budget documents reveal. “That’s the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week’s Bill Sweetman,
Read More »Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed at destroying enemy missiles very soon after they take off. The move away from “boost-phase” intercept programmes was announced
Read More »Pelosi caught in lie over CIA torture report
By Bob Turner | Washington – A report by the Central Intelligence Agency revealed that now Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed on CIA torture methods in 2002, which the
Read More »Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush administration obtained in 2004.
Read More »Informants Say Blackwater Guards Tried to Unload Arms
By Bill Sizemore | Shortly after a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad traffic square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, Blackwater contractors allegedly transferred a number of machine guns to another contractor who
Read More »US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken | On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air
Read More »Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open
By LARA JAKES | The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfill
Read More »US accused of violating its amnesty in Iraq
US-allied anti-Qaeda militia leader says his arrest violates amnesty deal with Americans. BALAD, Iraq – A senior anti-Qaeda militia leader allied with American forces said on Monday that his arrest was a violation of
Read More »Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
By Marjorie Cohn | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former
Read More »Jordan’s human-rights watchdog reports torture
Amman- The 2008 report released Saturday by Jordan’s state- funded National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) found continued ‘torture’ at Jordanian jails and a retreat in public freedoms. Anti-torture efforts in Jordan are still
Read More »The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations
As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the frequency and severity of their use, contradicting an 2007 ABC News report, and a new focus on
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