Abu Ghraib News Archives

The state attorney general's office has asked a judge to set aside the $2 million verdict recently awarded to two prison guards who sued their co-workers for misrepresenting their roles in a confrontation with ...

In any civilized country, these facts would provoke banner headlines, marathon television debates, investigations, prosecutions and widespread public revulsion.

Known as "the torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is a brisk and entertaining final chapter in the globe trotting adventure series.

The White House ignored early warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, that US interrogators may have abused detainees, according to a new report from the Justice Department.

Errol Morris on 'Standard Operating Procedure' OSCAR-WINNING DOCUMENTARIAN ERROL MORRIS was going through photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal when his editor took note of a particular picture showing ...

Documentary film director Errol Morris says he's always been fascinated by photographs, and has long wanted to do a film about how they can shape history.

State police acted reasonably in arresting six nearly naked demonstrators who posed as Abu-Ghraib prisoners during a 2004 campaign stop by President George W. Bush, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

It's been twenty years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line - a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder.

WASHINGTON -- FBI agents who assisted with overseas interrogations of suspected terrorists after Sept.

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“That is our protocol and that's what we stick with.”

FBI agents raised concerns about U.S. interrogators mistreating terror detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay during the three years after Sept. via The Boston Globe

“Sanchez and Bremer are two of the main culprits who almost lost us the WOT”

To hear retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez explain it, the mistakes of the Iraq war that happened while he was in command there weren't his fault. via Free Republic

“It's our responsibility to provide the best judgment we can”

To hear retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez explain it, the mistakes of the Iraq war that happened while he was in command there weren't his fault. via McClatchy DC

“Our soldiers are trained professionals and will defend themselves with appropriate force”

Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 19 suspects during a series of operations targeting al-Qaida in Iraq operatives in central and northern Iraq today, military officials said. via Free Republic

The infamous photographs of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and detainees by guards at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have become iconic imagery of American military shame, displayed so many times that they have ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“All you can do is report what's in the picture”

On the set of Standard Operating Procedure Errol Morris isn't interested in amassing evidence of orchestrated human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, as Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" does with prisons ... via Danville Weekly

“We will not accept that Mosul remains in the thrall of Al Qaeda, remnants of the former regime and outlaws as were cities, like Ramadi, Fallujah, Basra and Sadr City”

Baghdad, May 15: The death toll of a suicide bombing in west Baghdad attributed to a teenager rose to 30 Thursday while Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki continued his visit to Mosul where he is overseeing a ... via Newkerala.com

“It is easy to confuse photographs with reality.”

In his new film, Standard Operating Procedure , Errol Morris turns his camera on Abu Ghraib. via Mother Jones

'It's 'As the World Turns,' ain't it? It's life.' So says Lynndie England, who served in the United States Army's Military Police at the military prison, Abu Ghraib, in Errol Morris' deeply disturbing ... via Asbury Park Press Online

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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