Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 5:23:00 PM CEST
More Bad News May Be on the Way for Bush
In one of the darkest weeks of his administration, President Bush saw America's reputation sullied, the U.S. effort in Iraq damaged and his own campaign for re-election clouded. And more bad news may be on the way.
While the world already has been horrified by pictures of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, the Pentagon warns there are many more photos and videos that have not been disclosed.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 5:18:00 PM CEST
Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S.
Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates.
In Pennsylvania and some other states, inmates are routinely stripped in front of other inmates before being moved to a new prison or a new unit within their prison. In Arizona, male inmates at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix are made to wear women's pink underwear as a form of humiliation.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
UK forces taught torture methods
The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources.
The techniques devised in the system, called R2I - resistance to interrogation - match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:40:00 PM CEST
#19 U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq
President Richard Nixon removed U.S. currency from the gold standard in 1971. Since then, the world's supply of oil has been traded in U.S. fiat dollars, making the dollar the dominant world reserve currency. Countries must provide the United States with goods and services for dollars — which the United States can freely print. To purchase energy and pay off any IMF debts, countries must hold vast dollar reserves. The world is attached to a currency that one country can produce at will. This means that — in addition to controlling world trade – the United States is importing substantial quantities of goods and services for very low relative costs.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:39:00 PM CEST
U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
Everyone is familiar with security patrol dogs. You may even know that because of their exceptionally keen sense of smell, dogs like beagles are also used to detect drugs and bombs, or land mines. But a dog would not be effective in finding a sea mine.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
The Wars of Religion
The basic intolerance of the Christian religion is revealed not only in persecutions of heretics, dissenters and witches. Religious wars was another popular outlet for this intolerance. Following the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Europe was the stage for many religious wars, most of them between Catholics and Protestants.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:28:00 PM CEST
On the Beaches
As the 60th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Euan Ferguson visits the Normandy beaches where the course of the war turned. It was a day marked by huge loss of life and a high-risk strategy that, had it failed, would have altered our world irrevocably.
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Topic: W A R - on May 8, 2004 at 1:41:00 PM CEST
US soldiers abused young girl at Iraqi prison
The US military has said it will investigate claims by a former inmate of Abu Ghraib prison that a girl as young as 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel.
Suhaib al-Baz, a journalist for the al-Jazeera television network, claims to have been tortured at the prison, based west of Baghdad, while held there for 54 days.
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Topic: W A R - on May 8, 2004 at 2:22:00 AM CEST
More Photos, Videos in Iraq Abuse Scandal-Rumsfeld
The abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison includes more photographs and videos that are potentially worse than the photos shown around the world of smiling American soldiers next to naked Iraqi prisoners in humiliating positions, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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Topic: W A R - on May 8, 2004 at 2:04:00 AM CEST
Two reporters killed in Iraq
The death toll among journalists working in Iraq reached another grim landmark today after gunmen opened fire on reporters, killing two and injuring a third - bringing the number of media fatalities in the Gulf conflict to 30.
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Topic: W A R - on May 8, 2004 at 2:01:00 AM CEST
Iraq 'abuse' contractors go on the offensive
Defense contractor CACI International went on the offensive on Wednesday as it sought to contain the fallout from the alleged involvement of some of its staff in the abuse of prisoners in Iraq. CACI and Titan, another contractor named in accusations, risk becoming an easy target for the US Government as it looks to find someone to blame.
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Topic: W A R - on May 6, 2004 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Petition: Responding to Torture
Reports and photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and abused by U.S. and British troops have shocked the world. They are also provoking a global backlash against the U.S., at the very moment when we most need the world's help to manage the mess in Iraq.
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