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Sides Clash Over Treatment of Bin Laden’s Driver

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Team VCS

July 16, 2008, Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba – The prosecution and defense witnesses have given widely different accounts of the way Osama bin Laden’s former driver has been treated in U.S. prisons in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. … Continue reading →

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ACLU Seeks Answers on Torture from Former Attorney General Ashcroft

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Team VCS

July 17, 2008, Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union calls on former Attorney General John Ashcroft, in today’s House Judiciary hearing, to provide Congress and the American people with answers to questions about when, why and how the … Continue reading →

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Gitmo Interrogation Video Released

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Team VCS

July 15, 2008, Toronto, Canada  – Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations Tuesday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated U.S. prison in Cuba. The … Continue reading →

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More Evidence of Guantanamo Bay Torture, Including Sleep Deprivation

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Team VCS

July 15, 2008, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba – The U.S. military subjected a former driver for Osama bin Laden to a sleep-deprivation program in 2003, his defense lawyers said Monday, raising the latest allegations of a tactic criticized as … Continue reading →

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July 8, Torture Update: US Torture Used at Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp Tied to Chinese Torture Used Against US During Korean War

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Team VCS

July 4, 2008 – The military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged … Continue reading →

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Wounded Iraqi Forces Say They’ve Been Abandoned

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Team VCS

July 1, 2008, Baghdad, Iraq – Dawoud Ameen, a former Iraqi soldier, lay in bed, his shattered legs splayed before him, worrying about the rent for his family of five. Mr. Ameen’s legs were shredded by shrapnel from a roadside … Continue reading →

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June 29, Iran Update: Preparing the Battlefield – The Bush Administration Steps Up Secret Moves Against Iran

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Team VCS

Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says. July 7, 2008 – Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert … Continue reading →

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Sizeable Minority in U.S. Condone Torture

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Team VCS

June 26, 2008, United Nations – The number of Americans who would condone torture, at least when used on terrorists in order to save lives, has risen over the past two years and now stands at over 40 percent, according … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: A Victory for Justice

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Team VCS

June 25, 2008 – The right of a prisoner to challenge his confinement is central to the American way of justice, and to our reputation as a fair and compassionate nation. So it is a relief to have those values … Continue reading →

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June 23 VCS Update: Administration Experiments on Our Veterans and Tortures Enemy POW’s

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Team VCS

June 23, 2008 – This week’s update contains four critical news articles, including VA’s failure to provide oversight of drug experiments on our veterans, VA’s rejection of nearly all claims for veterans exposed to secret germ warfare tests, how doctors … Continue reading →

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