Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped
By Naomi Wolf
Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them’ up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them – well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22737.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22737.htm
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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
“How could ordinary American soldiers come to engage in such monstrous acts?”
Video Documentary
For the first time, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB features both the voices of Iraqi victims (interviewed in Turkey after arduous attempts to meet with them) and guards directly involved in torture at the prison. Conducted by Kennedy, these remarkably candid, in-depth interviews shed light on the abuses in an unprecedented manner.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22731.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22731.htm
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Sri Lanka: As Many As 20,000 Civilian Killed :
Times photographs expose Sri Lanka’s lie on civilian deaths at beach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383477.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383477.ece
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Iran mosque blast bears ‘US, Israel thumbprints’:
A senior Iranian official says Israel and the US have had a hand in the mosque bombing that shook the southeastern city of Zahedan to its core.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96389§ionid=351020101
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96389§ionid=351020101
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Cleric: Clues of US, Israel’s Involvement in Zahedan Bombing Discernable:
Ayatollah Khatami said both Shiite and Sunni Muslims will, through their vigilance, manage to foil the plot to pit the two branches of Islam against each other.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8803080813
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8803080813
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Russia accuses US of exaggerating Iran missile threat:
A senior Russian official today accused the US of grossly exaggerating the missile threat posed by hostile powers such as Iran, predicting there would be no menace from the Middle East “for at least a decade to come”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/russia-us-iran-missile-threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/russia-us-iran-missile-threat
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Study Supports View That Iran Attack Unlikely To Work:
Contrary to Israeli claims of tacit Arab support for an Israeli strike against Iran, “Arab countries will not condone any attack on Iran under the pretext that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel, whilst Israel has some 200 to 300 nuclear weapons,” they write
http://forward.com/articles/106687/
http://forward.com/articles/106687/
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Amnesty accuses Israel of violating laws of war:
Amnesty International, in its annual report released Thursday, accused Israel of having “repeatedly” violated the laws of war during its December offensive in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 1,400 Palestinians.
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/fri/may29w15.htm
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/fri/may29w15.htm
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Israel refuses cooperation with UN inquiry into Gaza ‘war crimes’:
The UN announced from Geneva Friday that the four-member team, headed by South African war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, will head to the region this weekend, and wants to begin work next week.
http://snipurl.com/j1d9s
http://snipurl.com/j1d9s
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Exploitation of Gaza
Would anyone ever imagine that the people of Gaza and Palestine own vast reserves of oil and gas in their own territorial waters? Is it possible that Israel wanted this conflict in order to get its hands on those reserves? Well the answer to both these questions is simply yes
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3248
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3248
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Washington Post: Abbas to wait for U.S. pressure to unseat Netanyahu:
Palestinian Authority officials expect U.S. pressure on Israel to restart the Peace Process will slowly force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/j1dc4
http://snipurl.com/j1dc4
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Abbas’s Waiting Game:
Until Israel meets his demands, the Palestinian president says, he will refuse to begin negotiations. He won’t even agree to help Obama’s envoy, George J. Mitchell, persuade Arab states to take small confidence-building measures. “We can’t talk to the Arabs until Israel agrees to freeze settlements and recognize the two-state solution,” he insisted in an interview. “Until then we can’t talk to anyone.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803614.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803614.html
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Israel rebuffs U.S. call for total settlement freeze:
Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its illegal West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088799.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088799.html
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Tensions high ahead of Israeli drill:
Israeli military officials claim Hezbollah is better armed than it was in 2006 as Lebanese forces go on high alert ahead of Israeli border exercises.
http://snipurl.com/j1dgt
http://snipurl.com/j1dgt
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US failing to investigate war crimes: UN investigator: -
An independent UN human rights investigator has said that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes committed by its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/j1dmi
http://snipurl.com/j1dmi
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Afghan was taken to Guantanamo aged 12: rights group:
An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSTRE54P6A420090527
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSTRE54P6A420090527
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U.S. slams British press over report of abuse photos:
In unusually forceful terms, the Pentagon attacked the report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper while the White House went so far as to cast doubt on the accuracy of the British press in general.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/ts_nm/us_iraq_abughraib_rape
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/ts_nm/us_iraq_abughraib_rape
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The Bogus Torture Coverup:
The Daily Beast has obtained specific corroboration of the British account, which appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, from several reliable sources, including a highly credible senior military officer with firsthand knowledge, who provided even more detail about the graphic photographs that have been withheld from the public by the Obama administration.
http://snipurl.com/j1dp1
http://snipurl.com/j1dp1
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Iraqi victims recall U.S. abuse:
The marks on Firas al-Sammarrai’s body from when he says U.S. soldiers repeatedly electrocuted him are one reason he can’t forget his abuse at their hands
http://snipurl.com/j1dpy
http://snipurl.com/j1dpy
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