Tag Archives: Abu Ghraib

Medics Are Ordered to Report Abuse

Posted on June 17, 2005 by Team VCS

The Defense Department’s top health affairs official this week instructed all medical personnel who treat detainees in U.S. custody to report any suspected inhumane treatment and to protect their patients as they would U.S. soldiers, a new set of guidelines … Continue reading →

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Illegal Detentions in Iraq by US Pose Great Challenge: Annan

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Team VCS

Thousands of people are detained in Iraq without due process in apparent violation of international law, the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding that 6,000 of the country’s 10,000 prisoners were in the hands of the U.S. military. In Iraq, … Continue reading →

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Torture’s Part of the Territory

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Team VCS

Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The photographs will elicit what has become … Continue reading →

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Long Jailings Anger Iraqis

Posted on June 8, 2005 by Team VCS

A year after the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal erupted, Iraqi anger has flared anew over the growing numbers of detainees held without charge at the notorious detention center and another prison in the south. In the battle against the insurgency, … Continue reading →

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US Military Finds Itself in Twilight Zone

Posted on June 3, 2005 by Team VCS

On the day that U.S. citizens honored the nation’s war dead, the U.S. armed forces found themselves in a twilight zone somewhere between glory and hell. On the one hand, the U.S. soldier has rarely ridden as high in terms … Continue reading →

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For the Wounded, No Miracle Is Small

Posted on May 30, 2005 by Team VCS

BETHESDA, Md. — The Ryan family stood vigil, gathered around a hospital bed in Building 10, Ward Five East — a surgical ward at the National Naval Medical Center. Before them lay Marine Cpl. Eddie Ryan, silent and pale, a … Continue reading →

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Amnesty International wants U.S. investigated

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Team VCS

Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American “architects of torture” at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of … Continue reading →

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Should Rumsfeld and Gonzales be held responsible for torture and murder?

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Team VCS

Should Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales be held personally responsible for torture and murder of prisoners of war? When Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee last year, he was asked whether he “ordered or approved … Continue reading →

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CIA man saw detainee abuse

Posted on May 26, 2005 by Team VCS

San Diego – A CIA official testified he witnessed the “pummelling” of a detainee at a Navy Seal base in Baghdad in 2003, but a former Seal who beat the prisoner said he was acting on instructions from the CIA. … Continue reading →

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Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse

Posted on May 26, 2005 by Team VCS

Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI … Continue reading →

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