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http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/to-dark-side.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Taxi to the Dark Side'. Only 6 were convicted or pled guilty. The stiffest punishment handed down has been 5 months in a military prison. Involved among others as executive producer was journalist Sid Blumenthal. The film by Alex Gibney "Taxi to the Dark Side" portrays the arrest of taxi driver Dilawar and to his killing at Bagram Air Base. It premiers at the Tribeca Film Festival. Priests on trial f...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2006/02/dilawar-and-habibullah.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tuesday, February 14, 2006. The New York Times' Tim Golden continues to write. Golden writes, "In the modest Fort Bliss courtrooms where the trials have been held, the two Afghan victims have rarely been evoked, except in autopsy photographs.". Resulting from his assignment for the New York Times. Posted by JG @ 8:19 AM. JG is an American graduate student in anthropology inspired to maintain this blog by the work of Carmela Ba...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
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The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Saturday, April 14, 2007. Hypocrisy: shock and awe on the body. One of the biggest madams operating an "escort service" for Washington DC professionals is being tried for tax evasion and running an illegal prostitution business. Before federal judges could gag order on Deborah Jeane Palfrey, she pulled the biggest name from her "46 pounds" of paper phone records. But the Abu Ghraib images are not easily repackaged. They're...
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The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wednesday, May 02, 2007. BTIF: Bagram, Black Hole. I've been a fan of Eliza Griswold ever since I read some of her poetry. In the New Yorker and then read more of her work on the Pastun/tribal Pakistani-Afghan border. Her latest piece for the New Republic, "The Other Guantantamo: Black Hole. Is a wake-up call. Posted by JG @ 8:28 AM. JG is an American graduate student in anthropology inspired to maintain this blog by the work ...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/priests-arrested-for-arizona-torture.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Priests on trial for Arizona torture protest. Two California priests, Fransiscan Father Louis Vitale and Jesuit Father Steve Kelly, related to the Catholic Worker. Protests. They were arraigned April 3 and are awaiting trial in June. From the group Pace e Bene. It was at Ft. Huachuca that Vietnam-era manuals advocating torture techniques were translated into Spanish for use at the U.S. Army...Both Vita...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/cropper-as-insurgent-recruitment-center.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sunday, April 08, 2007. Cropper as insurgent recruitment center. Extremists conducted regular indoctrination lectures, and in some cases destroyed televisions supplied by the Americans for use with educational videos, banned listening to music on radios, forbade smoking and stoked tensions between Sunni and Shiite detainees, they said. US military officials acknowledge that they are battling militants for the hearts and minds ...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/afghanistan-to-release-us-vigilante.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Afghanistan to release US "vigilante". The Afghan government has granted amnesty to Jack Idema. The last "mysterious" ex-special forces caught on a vigilante mission in Afghanistan. According to BBC, NATO was even fooled by Idema and his friends Edward Caraballo and Brent Bennett, who had uniforms and allegedly special passports and visas. The Aghan government doesn't do anything unless the United St...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/ap-photographer-still-in-prison-1-year.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Friday, April 13, 2007. AP Photographer still in prison 1 year later. Bilal Hussein, an AP photographer who was detained last April by American forces in Ramadi is still in American custody at Camp Cropper one year later. US spokesmen claim Hussein is "still a security threat.". The US military has provided no credible evidence to this effect, claim Hussein's lawyers. Quoting the AP. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a writ...
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/proof-cia-still-using-secret-prisons.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sunday, April 29, 2007. Proof CIA still using secret prisons. Photo by Trevor Paglen. Last September, the Bush administration made noise announcing that no more secret prison facilities would be used by the CIA to hold prisoners seized in the "war on terror." Since then, sporadic reports have questioned the truth of this assertion. Why must this Administration constitently flaunt the rule of law? According to the New York Times.
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truth and consequences | interrogation and detention in afghanistan and iraq
http://talibancountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/flannery-ooconnor-and-abu-ghraib.html
The ongoing scandal of US military abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sunday, April 01, 2007. Flannery O'Connor and Abu Ghraib. And provides the first chapter. This stone is mentioned in most of the early news coverage of the scandal, treated as a bit of profound irony, the kind of coincidence newspaper reporters salivate over. How could a man with this bit of scripture displayed in his "postage-stamp" of a front yard, as one Pittsburgh news weekly described it, commit such atrocious acts? For O...
