Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Lawyers ‘besiege’ army over Iraq abuse

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Team VCS

Britain’s armed forces face a new wave of damaging legal actions over the alleged torture of detainees in Iraq, prompting concerns from defence chiefs over the role of UK law firms whom they accuse of placing military personnel ‘under siege’. … Continue reading →

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Cheney Working to Block Legislation on Detainees

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Team VCS

Vice President Dick Cheney is leading a White House lobbying effort to block legislation offered by Republican senators that would regulate the detention, treatment and trials of detainees held by the American military. In an unusual, 30-minute private meeting on … Continue reading →

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U.S. military dog handlers face Abu Ghraib hearing

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Team VCS

FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – Two U.S. dog handlers in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison used unmuzzled dogs to threaten prisoners and competed to see who could make inmates urinate on themselves, according to testimony at a military hearing on Tuesday. … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Defies Order to Release Photos; Veterans Demand Commission

Posted on July 25, 2005 by Team VCS

For Immediate Release:July 25, 2005 Contacts: Charles Sheehan-Miles, 202.558.4553 or charles@veteransforcommonsense.org Pentagon Defies Order to Release Photos;2,000 Veterans Call for Independent Investigation Washington – Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), a nonpartisan veterans’ organization with 12,000 members, called for a commission … Continue reading →

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Man shot in terror hunt was innocent young Brazilian

Posted on July 24, 2005 by Team VCS

A young Brazilian man, living and working in London as an electrician, emerged last night as the innocent victim shot dead by police in their hunt for the suicide bombers targeting the capital. The dead man, killed at Stockwell tube … Continue reading →

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Analysis: Britain’s many faces of Islam

Posted on July 24, 2005 by Team VCS

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet Tuesday with the Muslim Council of Britain, the broad representative body of the country’s estimated 1.6 million followers of the various forms of Islam. It is a big tent organization, designed to include … Continue reading →

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Padilla Lawyer: Charge Him or Release Him

Posted on July 23, 2005 by Team VCS

A lawyer for Jose Padilla, an American accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb,” went before a federal appeals court Tuesday and demanded the U.S. government either charge his client with a crime or set him free. But … Continue reading →

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America wrestles with privacy vs. security

Posted on July 23, 2005 by Team VCS

The recent attacks in London by home-grown terrorists have intensified attention on homeland security in the US. And that in turn has raised new questions about protecting civil liberties and privacy during a new kind of war that knows no … Continue reading →

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Iraqis Not Ready to Fight Rebels on Their Own, U.S. Says

Posted on July 22, 2005 by Team VCS

 WASHINGTON, July 20 – About half of Iraq’s new police battalions are still being established and cannot conduct operations, while the other half of the police units and two-thirds of the new army battalions are only “partially capable” of carrying … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Proposes Rise in Age Limit for Recruits

Posted on July 22, 2005 by Team VCS

The Army told John Conroy on July 8 that it did not want him, despite his master’s degree in business and his marathon-proven fitness. Just shy of 41, he is too old. But by next year, Mr. Conroy could be … Continue reading →

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