Topic: W A R - on August 26, 2004 at 3:53:00 PM CEST
Marine dies, father burns himself
His wife says a Florida father "went crazy" today when he was told that his Marine son was killed in combat in Iraq.
Carlos Arredondo was burned over 50 percent of his body when he allegedly used gasoline and a lighting device to set a Marine van ablaze.
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Topic: W A R - on August 24, 2004 at 4:26:00 PM CEST
Abuse judge may compel intel testimony; suspect admits he lied
The U.S. military judge hearing the Abu Ghraib abuse case said prosecutors had until Sept. 17 to file charges against top military intelligence commanders or he would consider forcing them to testify under a grant of immunity. Davis and the five other military police accused of abusing prisoners at the Baghdad prison insist they were following orders from military intelligence officers and civilian contractors.
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Topic: W A R - on August 19, 2004 at 10:26:00 PM CEST
Man Launches 'Bullets Not Boobs' Campaign
To protest the U.S. Military's recent offer of free breast implants For its female enlistees, adult video company Kick Ass Pictures has fired back with an offer of its own: $1,000 worth of natural beauty enhancements to any woman who declines the Military's offer.
Read the full "Bullets Not Boobs" press release.
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Topic: W A R - on August 6, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Hiroshima remembered
Japanese children look up at the gutted A-bomb dome in Hiroshima. The city observes the 59th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare on August 6.
The bomb devasted Hiroshima and instantly killed 70,000, with a death toll rising for generations from radiation-induced illnesses.
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Topic: W A R - on July 13, 2004 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
PDF versions right click & save as
Full Report 521-pages 23,4 mb
Conclusions (Excerpted From Full Report) 1,89 mb
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Topic: W A R - on June 26, 2004 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
Amerikaner legten Tropf an totes Folteropfer an damit er lebendig wirkte
Der Chef des amerikanischen Militärgeheimdienstes im Gefängnis Abu Ghreib war offenbar anwesend als die Leiche eines bei der Folter umgekommenen Insassen 'auf Eis' gelegt wurde. Dieses Mitwissens wird er von Capt. Donald J. Reese beschuldigt.
Der tote Gefangene soll laut Reese nach einer Autopsie am Folgetag mit einem Tropf am Arm aus dem Gefängnis entfernt worden sein, damit der Eindruck erweckt werde, dass er noch am Leben sei. Was daraufhin mit der Leiche geschah, ist nicht bekannt.
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Topic: W A R - on June 23, 2004 at 12:47:00 PM CEST
Saddam says he's keeping cheerful
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein says his spirit and morale are high and asks relatives to "say hello to everyone" in the only message he has sent to his family since his capture last December, Newsweek magazine has reported.
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Topic: W A R - on June 23, 2004 at 10:38:00 AM CEST
Rumsfeld gab O.k. zur Folter
Wie aus Dokumenten, die jetzt vom Weißen Haus veröffentlicht wurden, hervorgeht, hat Donald Rumsfeld den brutalen Verhör-Methoden zumindest zeitweise zugestimmt. Zu diesen Methoden gehörte u. a. die Bedrohung durch Hunde oder Befragung nackter Häftlinge.
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Topic: W A R - on June 21, 2004 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Iraqi Prisoner Claims US GIs Electrocuted His Penis
As part of a class action lawsuit against the military being filed in California, a man who uses the pseudonym "Neisef" claims US soldiers electrocuted his penis 3 times and did not get medical attention after a blood vessel there ruptured.
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Topic: W A R - on June 18, 2004 at 7:05:00 PM CEST
CIA contractor charged with assaulting detainee
A civilian contractor working for the CIA was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting a detainee in Afghanistan who later died. They were the first criminal charges filed against a contractor since the scandal of abuse in U.S. prisons overseas broke in April.
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Topic: W A R - on June 17, 2004 at 5:53:00 PM CEST
Rumsfeld ordered 'ghost detainee'
The US military has been secretly holding a suspected terrorist in Iraq on the orders of the Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Iraq man has been held since last November at a high-risk prison near Baghdad, without being listed on any roll or assigned a prisoner number.
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Topic: W A R - on June 12, 2004 at 5:18:00 PM CEST
Is U.S. like Germany of the '30s?
-- I can understand, my German friend said, why Germans voted for Hitler in 1933 -- though he did not receive a majority of the vote. The Weimar Republic was weak and incompetent. The Great Depression had ruined the nation's war-devastated economy. People were bitter because they thought their leaders had betrayed them in the war. They wanted revenge for the humiliation of Versailles. Hitler promised strong leadership and a new beginning. But why did they continue to support that group of crazy drug addicts, thugs, killers and madmen?
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