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Pentagon faked heroic death for icon shot by fellow Rangers
The parents of a former American football star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan yesterday accused the Pentagon of propagating a false account of his death to stir up patriotic fervour back home. Pat Tillman became a national icon last … Continue reading
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A Genuine Inquiry into Abuses
How did a short item in Newsweek reporting that U.S. interrogators had desecrated a Koran at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, spark massive riots in several Muslim countries last week, leading to the deaths of least 16 people? And who, exactly, should … Continue reading
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The Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandal
It’s been over a year since I published a series of articles in the New Yorker outlining the abuses at Abu Ghraib. There have been at least 10 official military investigations since then – none of which has challenged the … Continue reading
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Hersh Sees Democracy in Peril in US
Seymour Hersh, arguably the greatest journalist of our time and certainly the most necessary, joined me last week at a University of Illinois conference that asked the question: “Can freedom of the press survive media consolidations?” The Pulitzer-winning journalist reworked … Continue reading
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Islam as interrogation tool: need for limits?
Army Sgt. Erik Saar couldn’t wait to get to Guantánamo Bay to help ferret information from the terrorists being held there. When the intelligence linguist arrived, however, he was startled to hear the Muslim call to prayer. Why, he wondered, … Continue reading
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Stand Down: Army to Spend Day Retraining Recruiters due to Widespread Scandals
Stand Down: Army to Spend Day Retraining Recruiters due to Widespread Scandals Responding to reports about widespread abuses of the rules for recruitment, Army officials said yesterday that they would suspend all recruiting on May 20 and use the day … Continue reading
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General Demoted, But Cleared in Abuse Probe
President Bush approved yesterday an order demoting Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski, the only general to be punished in connection with investigations into detainee abuse at U.S. military prisons. Karpinski’s rank was reduced to colonel, and she was … Continue reading
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Lawmakers shift tone on accountability for prison abuse scandal
A year ago, when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, several U.S. senators warned that top military officers and civilian policy-makers must share the blame for lower-ranking soldiers who abused prisoners. That hasn’t happened. Instead, while the scandal has widened … Continue reading
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U.S.: Abu Ghraib Only the “Tip of the Iceberg”
The crimes at Abu Ghraib are part of a larger pattern of abuses against Muslim detainees around the world, Human Rights Watch said on the eve of the April 28 anniversary of the first pictures of U.S. soldiers brutalizing prisoners … Continue reading
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Top Army Officers Are Cleared in Abuse Cases
An Army inspector general’s report has cleared senior Army officers of wrongdoing in the abuse of military prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere, government officials familiar with the findings said yesterday. The only Army general officer recommended for punishment for the … Continue reading
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