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WECT-TV6
March 19, 2018
He returned to handle the fallout from prisoner mistreatment at Abu Ghraib, the U.S. prison in Iraq. Dick McGraw talks about those assignments, and retiring for a second time to Wilmington, in this behind-the-scenes podcast interview. You can listen to the entire interview with Dick McGraw on the free “1on1Ãâà...
Press Herald
March 18, 2018
But the graphic abuses committed by U.S. forces decades later at Abu Ghraib prison during the war in Iraq, along with the CIA's torture of detainees, raise the question of whether any reform, no matter how effective, can ever fully eliminate the danger. In terms of history, the significance of My Lai remainsÃâà...
Vox
March 18, 2018
Detainees at those sites were subject to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” cruel and abusive treatment that amounted to torture ... Since Spring 2004, when 60 Minutes II revealed the disturbing pictures of appalling prisoner abuse at the notorious Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, journalists and others haveÃâà...
charlestonchronicle.net
March 16, 2018
The Army has five military police units that specialize in detention camp liaison, but very few know what that even means outside of those units. Their purpose is to prevent one of the most horrific prison incidents in U.S. Army history from happening again–Abu Ghraib, in which Iraqi prisoners were tortured,Ãâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 28, 2018
CACI employees conducted interrogations alongside military intelligence personnel at Abu Ghraib, and plaintiffs allege that CACI employees were the de facto supervisors and expressly ordered military personnel to “soften up,” “rough up” or “humiliate” detainees. One military investigation into the abusesÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
February 28, 2018
Those who were released in 2011 and 2012 were then planted in terrorist organizations by the al-Mukhabarat (Syrian intelligence organization), and it was the U.S.'s Abu Ghraib prison model in Iraq which served as an example for the regime's actions on this matter,” said Majni. He also stated that all terrorÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 28, 2018
CACI employees conducted interrogations alongside military intelligence personnel at Abu Ghraib, and plaintiffs allege that CACI employees were the de facto supervisors and expressly ordered military personnel to “soften up,” “rough up” or “humiliate” detainees. One military investigation into the abusesÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
February 22, 2018
... during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, but former Abu Ghraib detainees say the defense contractor's employees were responsible or complicit in a host of abuses that first came to light in 2004 with the release of photographs depicting the abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by grinning soldiers.
Bloomberg BNA
February 22, 2018
A contrary ruling, though, would have left state and local governments—and their taxpayers—holding the bag for a prisoner's attorneys' fees, Lisa ... What happened at Abu Ghraib prison happens in the U.S., too, Shapiro told Bloomberg Law, referring to the mistreatment and torture of Muslim prisoners byÃâà...
Law360
February 22, 2018
Law360 (February 22, 2018, 6:53 PM EST) -- Several former prisoners of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison failed to plausibly support direct liability claims against a CACI International unit over its employees' alleged torture and abuse of detainees, but a Virginia federal judge did back their conspiracy and aiding andÃâà...
Shadowproof (blog)
February 21, 2018
The alleged torture took place at a part of Abu Ghraib known as the “Hard Site,” which was a “relatively small section of the complex controlled by American military forces that housed detainees who were suspected to be of 'military intelligence value.'” As described in the decision, al-Ejaili, who was aÃâà...
Newsweek
February 8, 2018
Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist organizations have pointed to Gitmo—along with the abuses at Abu Ghraib, CIA dark sites, and civilian casualties inflicted by ... The administration took the position that such detainees were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions due to prisoners of war,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
October 1, 2017
That's why prisoner abuse under Saddam was torture, but under the US it is simply "disgraceful conduct". That's also why Bush can talk about ... This is of particular importance as CACI has largely evaded accountability for their direct role in the torture of Abu Ghraib prisoners. Highlighting this point, CCRÃâà...
VICE
December 31, 1999
There was no real Somali authority in place to punish or incarcerate prisoners the Canadians apprehended. So a number of morally questionable measures were employed to deal with the problem. Children caught stealing were bound, blindfolded, and left in the sun for hours, with a sign bearing the wordÃâà...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
Haspel was sent by the chief of the CIA's counterterrorism section, Jose Rodriquez, the "handpicked warden of the first secret prison the CIA created to handle al-Qaeda detainees," according to a little-noticed recent article in Reader Supported News by John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism officer.
Miami Herald
December 31, 1999
Pohl was handling the court martial cases of U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. RELATED: Sept. 11 judge has handled tough cases before, a 2012 profile. He said he considered the declarations “simply the first step” toward sorting out the question of why the men were fired.
