More Iraqi prisoner torture pictures about to be released. Via TalkLeft (who gets it from Drudge), we find that the Washington Post is set to publish some new photos. Here's Private Lynndie England again: In this cropped photograph, Army Pfc. Lynndie England of the...
And so the US's descent from the moral pedestal it once occupied is now complete.The United States walked out of a UN meeting Tuesday to protest its decision minutes later to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission, the world body's human rights...
From Breaking News.ie: As President George Bush appeared on Arabic television today in a bid to limit the damage caused by photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, a new image emerged which would shock the world. A photograph from an internal military...
Here's an update to this post about the "private contractor" working for the CIA in Iraq murdering an Iraqi. Amazingly, there's another one - and a murder a CIA officer is thought to have committed. The AP reports: In addition, the deaths of two Iraqi prisoners...
Nikolai at Lenin's Tomb seems to have caught an interesting case of possible revisionism. He quotes a BBC article: Those torture photos? Military intelligence ordered them to be taken : The lawyer for one of the soldiers accused of being involved in the events which...
Why they would do this is beyond me. Scores of prisoners released from the controversial Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday were forced to take a winding, nearly five-hour journey through central Iraq on three hot, rickety buses escorted by U.S. military Humvees before being...
Reuters reports:The U.S. military has investigated the deaths of 25 prisoners held by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and determined that two prisoners were murdered by Americans, one an Army soldier and the other a CIA contractor, Army officials said on...
Which neocons are on their way out? How many will Rove force to walk the plank off the USS Dubya? Which neocons are fed up with the "treacherous, spineless turncoat," Ahmed Chalabi? How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the...
CNN Reports: After three weeks of captivity by Iraqi insurgents, American Thomas Hamill walked free when his guards apparently fled from an approaching U.S. Army patrol, soldiers who found him said Monday. One of the soldiers, 2nd Lt. Joseph Merrill, said his platoon...
The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, US funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in disgust saying they're sick of American interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they're starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (The New Morning)....
