Abu Ghraib News

Were you disgusted when you saw the photos of the prisoners our country abused and tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison? My first reaction, after disgust, was disbelief; the United States doesn't do this kind of thing.

Gunmen clad in Iraqi army uniforms stormed a house Wednesday north of Baghdad and killed six members of a family, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Posted by Stephen Brown on Nov 26th, 2009 and filed under FrontPage . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry It makes one wonder how the West is ever going to win the war against radical Islam.

During the darkest days of the sectarian bloodletting that swept Iraq several years ago, few terrors equaled the rise of the death squads - men in the guise of the Iraqi security forces who killed with impunity.

But few of those clawing at their faces today in angst and shame over who-knew-what-when-generated hysteria with regard to mistreatment of Afghan detainees have paused to recall how this mess originated.

No big blue cardboard cheques in sight. This one is more serious. It's about torture, and Canada is involved.

Passionate arguments have been made on both sides of the question of whether it is a mistake to try self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators in a civilian court in Manhattan.

Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef caught a fleeting glimpse of the man who wanted him dead.

Eager to dispel its image as a rights abuser after earlier prison scandals, the US has opened an Afghan jail that critics say still falls short of basic legal standards.

In a massacre that revived memories of Iraq's worst years of sectarian bloodshed, assailants dressed in Iraqi army uniforms savagely killed 13 men and boys late Sunday near the restive city of Abu Ghraib, according to Iraqi officials and villagers.

BY CHOOSING to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists in a Manhattan federal courthouse rather than a military tribunal, the Obama administration hasn't just reaffirmed America's commitment to the rule of law.

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The murder of 13 in Abu Ghraib this weekend has some worried that Al Qaeda in Iraq may be exploiting gaps between withdrawing US forces and Iraqi troops not yet ready to stand alone.

Early Monday morning, men dressed in Iraqi Army uniforms killed at least 13 people, including a local cleric.

People mourn next the a coffin of a man who was one of 13 people that were executed by insurgents, during a funeral in the village of al-Saadan near the town of Abu Ghraib on Baghdad's western outskirts, Iraq, on Monday, Nov.

Britain's Defense Ministry is investigating claims of prisoner abuse by British troops in Iraq in a scandal that could turn into a second Abu Ghraib.

U.S. soldiers interrogated by the Army in the 2007 murders of four Iraqi detainees blamed a military policy they said made it too hard to detain suspected insurgents, a CNN investigation has found.

A Sunni politician and 12 other men, including some of his relatives, were killed execution-style over the weekend in a small village west of Baghdad.

Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef caught a fleeting glimpse of the man who wanted him dead.

Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.