Topic: W A R - on May 16, 2004 at 8:13:00 AM CEST
Rumsfeld und die supergeheime Pentagon-Abteilung
Seymour Hersh glaubt belegen zu können, dass eine vom US-Verteidigungsminister mit Wissen von Bush eingerichtete Abteilung Tür und Tor für die Misshandlungen an irakischen Gefangenen geöffnet hat
Seymour Hersh, der bereits das My Lai Massaker an die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit gebracht hat, erweist sich auch jetzt wieder als eine treibende Kraft und demonstriert, was ein Journalist in der besten amerikanischen Tradition bewirken kann, wenn er den entsprechenden Mut und das richtige Medium hat. Hersh verteidigt die demokratischen Grundwerte der USA, bei den rechten Amerikanern und bei den Anhängern der Bush-Regierung gilt er hingegen als linker Staatsfeind oder gar als journalistischer Terrorist. Nach seinen Informationen, und die sind normalerweise richtig, ist US-Verteidigungsminister Rumsfeld derjenige, der an erster Stelle für die Exzesse im Irak verantwortlich ist - und dementsprechend seinen Hut ziehen müsste.
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Topic: W A R - on May 16, 2004 at 8:12:00 AM CEST
Statement from DoD
"Assertions apparently being made in the latest New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib and the abuse of Iraqi detainees are outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture.
"The abuse evidenced in the videos and photos, and any similar abuse that may come to light in any of the ongoing half dozen investigations into this matter, has no basis in any sanctioned program, training manual, instruction, or order in the Department of Defense.
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Topic: W A R - on May 16, 2004 at 8:11:00 AM CEST
Rumsfeld 'backed prisoner abuse'
A US magazine says Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally authorised a secret programme that encouraged the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
The article in The New Yorker says Mr Rumsfeld extended a programme already in use in Afghanistan.
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Topic: W A R - on May 16, 2004 at 1:59:00 AM CEST
Abu Ghraib ist überall
Wer "Krieg" sagt, muss auch "Folter" sagen
Die Annahme, dass Folterungen und Misshandlungen von Insassen des Gefängnisses Abu Ghraib allein dem teuflischen Charakter des "Schlächters von Bagdad", Saddam Hussein, geschuldet waren, muss nach den Bildern und Nachrichten von den Übergriffen auf irakische Gefangene relativiert werden. Dass das, was unter dem Saddam die Regel war, unter George W. Bush eben nur die Ausnahme darstellt, die zudem sofort und unnachgiebig geahndet wird - dieser Spin der amtierenden Meinungspriester ist dabei nur ein schwacher Trost.
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Topic: W A R - on May 15, 2004 at 9:45:00 PM CEST
Teachers Getting Suspended for Showing Berg Video
In Southern California, 3 teachers have been put on paid leave because they allowed students to see the Berg beheading video. One English teacher at Villa Park, Stephen Arcudi, simply let students use his computer to watch the video.
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Topic: W A R - on May 15, 2004 at 9:43:00 PM CEST
Mirror editor sacked over hoax
Morgan refuses to apologise after Iraqi abuse pictures are shown to be fakes Piers Morgan was last night sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror as the newspaper apologised "unreservedly" for publishing photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse that were faked.
Morgan's nine-year reign came to an end after the Queen's Lancashire Regiment proved that pictures of its soldiers allegedly torturing Iraqi captives were staged and launched a strong campaign denouncing the Mirror's handling of the images.
F A K E D frontpage PIC ¬> guardian.co.uk
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Topic: W A R - on May 15, 2004 at 9:23:00 PM CEST
REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)
ON THE TREATMENT BY THE COALITION FORCES OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND OTHER PROTECTED PERSONS BY THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS IN IRAQ DURING ARREST, INTERNMENT AND INTERROGATION.
via cryptome.org
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Topic: W A R - on May 15, 2004 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
A Chance Link Delayed Berg
Nicholas Berg, the West Chester businessman decapitated in Iraq last weekend, was questioned repeatedly in Iraq by FBI agents who thought he might have ties to Zacarias Moussaoui, the confessed al-Qaeda member and accused Sept. 11 conspirator, government officials said yesterday.
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Topic: W A R - on May 14, 2004 at 8:37:00 PM CEST
Beheading Web Site Shut Down
Malaysian company Acme Commerce shut down the site which showed a video of Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq. The site al-ansar.biz had rented space on the company's web server. Now the site is not available.
The company says one main reason for the shutdown is "a sudden surge of massive traffic that is taking up too much bandwidth and causing inconvenience to our other clients". The company does not allow "grisly" and "potentially offensive" content.
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Topic: W A R - on May 14, 2004 at 3:24:00 PM CEST
Iraq prisoner abuse photos 'tame', Qld contractor says
"What you're seeing in the photographs now really is tame," he said.
"You think about it, these pictures [are ones] that they've published on the net to send to their friends, the real stuff that's going on there is far, far beyond this."
He says he has seen far worse while working in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.
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Topic: W A R - on May 13, 2004 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
Nick Berg decapitation video declared "a fraud" by medical doctor
Fake Video?
Doctor Raul Castro Guevara is saying that there is no way that the individual in the video was alive and his heart pumping while his neck was being cut. The doctor adds that in these cases, while the heart is pumping, cutting a person's artery in the neck, would cause copious amounts of blood to spurt all over the immediate environment. He says that in his opinion the video is a fraud.
Berg.wmv + DoD's Unzipped Video of Berg Murder (5.4MB)
JAR2 + Link to the Berg Murder Video
AT berg-video.zip + Austrian Mirror of Berg Murder Video (5.5MB)
AU berg-video.zip + Australian Mirror of Berg Murder Video
Zubu + Zubu Link to the Berg Murder Video
berg-video.zip + JYA Mirror of Nicholas Berg Video (a Cryptome site)
iraq2vediow.zip + Agonist Mirror of Berg Murder Video
berg.zip + ASI Mirror of Berg Murder Video NEWS
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Topic: W A R - on May 12, 2004 at 3:42:00 PM CEST
Pictures taken by soldiers on the frontline in Iraq
Jim and I are amazed at the variety of pictures we see on Yafro, but the most amazing by far are the pictures taken by soldiers on the Frontline in Iraq. We are happy that Yafro enables them to give us all a glimpse into their lives that we rarely get from the Media. Straight from the source, it doesn't get any cooler than that!
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