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Sanchez on Iraq errors: Don't blame me, I was just a general
... explain it, the mistakes of the Iraq war that happened while he was in command there weren't his fault. Not Abu Ghraib, not the birth of the insurgency, not the decision to let rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr survive. Sanchez was a soldier, and ...
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... in detail the role of Yoo, among other administration lawyers, in opening the door to torture at Guant namo, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. - Yoo's hometown paper, the Berkeley Daily Planet, published an editorial about him calling on the law school to ...
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Iraq exemplifies a key element of decision making
... but also a lack of productive jobs. The decisions on the management of the occupation lead to the abuses of Abu Ghraib and a great deal of antipathy among Iraqis toward the occupying forces. Other decisions, such as the development of a new ...
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Looking at the life of Bobby Sands
... prize, drew parallels between abuses by British authorities in the Maze prison and the treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. "The fact of the matter is that history does repeat itself," said McQueen, who first conceived the idea of ...
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Drugging Deportees: Being the "Evil that We Deplore"
... in psychiatric hospitals. "In the history of oppression, using haloperidol is kind of like detaining people in Abu Ghraib," the infamous prison in Iraq, said Nigel Rodley, who teaches international human rights law at the University of Essex in ...
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Coalition Troops in Iraq Kill Terrorist, Detain 19
... were killed and eight were wounded when an al-Qaida in Iraq member detonated a suicide vest at a funeral near Abu Ghraib. U.S. and Iraqi forces provided security and rendered assistance. The wounded were taken to the Fallujah and Abu Ghraib ...
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY
... C&J will be a Special Edition---a look back at May of 2004. Remember? John Kerry was looking for a veep, the Abu Ghraib scandal was breaking, John Ashcroft got his Crisco-slathered head handed to him by Greenpeace, and the first same-sex marriage ...
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78% Standard Operating Procedure
Master filmmaker Errol Morris turns his keen eye to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in this intense and provocative documentary.
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US/IRAQ: Soldier Refuses Tour, Citing 'Stomach-Churning Horrors'
... in Washington, DC. Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicised incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not isolated incidents perpetrated ...
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Missed signals from Iraq became missed opportunities, general recalls
... have erred.” Sanchez did take some responsibility in the book for the abuses of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison that came under his watch. Yet he said Friday that the seeds of that scandal were planted in 2002 when the administration ...
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Jackets Required: The Lazarus Project
... of a long series of observations and investigations which allow the author to sound off on everything from Abu Ghraib to his theories on the unsolved homicide of a Jewish immigrant by the Chicago chief of police back in 1908. With two parallel ...
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... Library to discuss "Standard Operating Procedure," their film about the soldiers who took and appeared in the Abu Ghraib photographs; Saul Steinberg in Paris; Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel; Mary Ellen Mark and James Nachtwey celebrated ...
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Hunger's forceful look at Ireland
... the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in May 1981 Fassbender agrees there are modern parallels to Sands' story in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. The idea of using the body as a political weapon, meanwhile, has been used to devastating effect in the ...
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So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed Us on Iraq
... by years and months, Mitchell provides important commentary on many of the key issues of the Iraq War--WMD, the Abu Ghraib scandal, calls for withdrawal, the media's accepting the government line, the failings of Donald Rumsfeld, "the surge," and ...
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The Shooting, the Beating, the Outcry: Another Week in Killadelphia
... should have held the tape out of deference for the police, but I heard the same argument about the soldiers and Abu Ghraib. It was news, and it should have been and was reported. Those making that argument seem to be from the same fringe of the ...
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... and guards. The makers say the story draws a parallel between IRA prisoners in the Maze and those in Iraq 's Abu Ghraib and the US-run detention camp, Guantanamo Bay. Ms Younghusband added: "We think it is an awful situation in Guantanamo but we had ...
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MediaPhilanthropyImpact part1 part 2
... of the human rights media organization, WITNESS and Diana Barrett of the Fledgling Fund (funder or Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, King Corn and more) to learn how you can move the public and policymakers to actionand ...
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... health care, forecolsures, long airport lines, the budget deficit, high gas prices, high energy prices, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Walter Reed Hospital scandal, and poorly-spelled jokes that bear no relation to reality. So let's hope that the MDP and ...
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Film tackles IRA leader Bobby Sands hunger strike
... Turner art prize, drew parallels between abuses by authorities in the Maze prison and the treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. "The fact of the matter is that history does repeat itself," said McQueen, who first conceived the idea ...
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DefenseLink News Article: Coalition Troops in Iraq Kill Terrorist, Detain 19
... were killed and eight were wounded when an al-Qaida in Iraq member detonated a suicide vest at a funeral near Abu Ghraib. U.S. and Iraqi forces provided security and rendered assistance. The wounded were taken to the Fallujah and Abu Ghraib ...
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