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Lynndie England with "Gus" at Abu Ghraib Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure is a shocking, depressing work of art that might tell you almost nothing you didn't know in your bones: that the torture ... via Open Source Comments

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FreeMarketNews.com As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, ... via FreeMarketNews.com

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Transcript US marks Iraq war, five years on PM - Tuesday, 6 May , 2008 18:38:00 Reporter: Geoff Thompson MARK COLVIN: Five years ago last week George Bush made his mission accomplished speech aboard an aircraft ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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“They have to be held accountable for their participation in the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and the other facilities”

Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES - Employees from US military contractors helped torture Iraqi civilians detained at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on ... via ABS-CBN News

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An Iraqi man who says he was tortured while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison is suing two U.S. military contractors. via The Dispatch

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“It seemed unbelievable for me, that I could be in this western city of Baghdad, with these friendly people and that bombs could soon be falling.”

Just one month before a U.S. "shock and awe" air raid campaign tore through Baghdad, botanist Dana Visalli was walking the streets of the Iraqi capital. via Bainbridge Island Review

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Coalition and Iraqi forces killed and captured suspected terrorists in various operations around Iraq over the past two days, military officials reported. via War on Terrorism

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In ''Standard Operating Procedure,'' Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised. He gives the US soldiers of Abu Ghraib back their humanity. via The Boston Globe

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“Sir, have you no sense of decency?”

The American people have heard President George W. Bush and his spokespersons say many times that the U.S. government does not engage in torture. via WYFF4.com

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“This pattern is one of claiming national security as pretext for withholding information to cover up embarrassing information.”

Newly released Department of Defense documents shed light into the use of psychologists in military interrogations and the failure of medical personnel to report detainee abuses, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.

'The documents reveal that psychologists and medical personnel played a key role in sustaining prisoner abuse _ a clear violation of their ethical and legal obligations,' ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said.

The ACLU obtained the newly unredacted documents in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2004. The information also shows the military continued to use abusive interrogation methods after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, Singh said. The government did not release details on the interrogation methods, she said. Read more

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