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NEWS ABOUT: Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib stories: 37 news summaries

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Suicide Bomber Kills 25
at Iraqi Banquet

Victims were celebrating release of sheikh's son from US detention

Aug 25, 08 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 25 people were killed in Abu Ghraib yesterday when a suicide bomber attacked a banquet where relatives were celebrating the release of a sheikh's son from US detention. Women, children and men from a US-supported neighborhood patrol were believed to be among the victims."The smoke was... More »

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Iraq • Abu Ghraib • Baghdad

Navy Accuses Sailors
of Abusing Detainees

Six guards in Iraq face charges

Aug 14, 08 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Navy will court-martial six sailors who are charged with abusing detainees at a US prison camp in Iraq, Reuters reports. The sailors are accused of beating prisoners and confining them in an unventilated room with pepper spray, a Navy statement says. More »

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Iraq • Abu Ghraib • prison • Navy • US military • physical abuse • imprisonment • Camp Bucca

Rumsfeld Dodged Early
Iraq Failures: Sanchez

Former general speaks out in new book, describes lies and 'total BS'

May 4, 08 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Early mistakes in Iraq—and the extent of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in them—are the subject of a Time excerpt from a book by the former commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. Sanchez details an effort by Rumsfeld to get him to agree, on paper,... More »

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Abu Ghraib • Donald Rumsfeld • Department of Defense • US Army • Ricardo Sanchez • cover up • Iraq war • CentCom • post-war reconstruction

 Justice Memo Backed 
 Torture Interrogations  

President's wartime powers override law, document argued

Apr 2, 08 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Laws banning torture and assault should not apply to US military interrogators overseas, argues a 2003 Justice Department memo released yesterday. The Defense Department was told not to rely on the memo nine months after it was issued, but it established a legal foundation for controversial interrogations, the Washington Post... More »

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Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • US military • Guantanamo Bay • classified information • interrogation techniques • suspected terrorists • Iraq war • torture memo

Abu Ghraib Torturerer: 'Rumsfeld Knew'

Lynndie England implicates ex-defense sec in interview

Mar 19, 08 4:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lynndie England spent nearly a year and a half in jail for her role in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In her first interview since her release, she tells the German news magazine Stern that she was sorry about the pictures of Iraqi detainees but insisted that... More »

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torture • Abu Ghraib • Donald Rumsfeld • Lynndie England • Iraq war

US 'Buried' Tortured Yemeni in Jail for Years: Rights Group

Prisoner finally freed without charge was hung upside down, beaten

Mar 14, 08 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Yemeni man was held by the US in secret prisons for nearly three years and subjected to torture after his capture in Iraq, a human rights group has charged in a condemnation of America's "cruel" defiance of international law. The man, Khaled al-Maqtari, was held in Baghdad's notorious... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • secret prisons • Amnesty International • Yemen • George W. Bush

Abu Ghraib
Film: Too Soft on Abuses?

Documentary wins
Berlin prize, criticism
for 'morbid voyeurism' 

Feb 20, 08 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Documentary-maker Errol Morris has often spoken truth to power, but his new film about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal may tread too lightly, Geoffrey Macnab writes in the Guardian. Though Standard Operating Procedure explores the infamous prison photos in gritty detail, Morris’ interview style—focusing mainly on implicated American soldiers... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • film • detainee • documentary • Berlin Film Festival • Errol Morris • Geoffrey Macnab • Lynndie England

US Officer
Cleared Over Abu Ghraib

Only officer charged with a crime in
torture scandal will face no punishment

Jan 11, 08 9:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The only officer who faced a court-martial over the torture at Abu Ghraib has been cleared of all criminal wrongdoing. The BBC reports that Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was convicted in August of disobeying a gag order, but that decision was annulled and his record is now clean. No officer... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • US military • court martial

CIA Tapes Were Made—and Destroyed—for PR

Interrogations filmed to counter mistreatment accusations; stopped when techniques grew harsh, reports NYT

Dec 30, 07 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Concern over its image prompted the CIA to first secretly create—and later destroy—tapes depicting the harsh interrogation of detainees, the New York Times reports. In spring 2002 the agency decided to document every moment of senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah's custody so that perceptions of mistreatment—by prosecutors,... More »

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CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • interrogations • Abu Zubaydah • CIA videotapes • al-Qaeda

General's Anti-War Turn Thrills Dems

Ex-Iraq commander forges surprising
bond with Pelosi

Nov 27, 07 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi has made one of her strangest alliances yet with ousted Iraq commander Ricardo Sanchez, and their bring-the-troops-home alliance thrills Democratic leaders but baffles others, the Washington Post reports. Sanchez, forced to retire over the Abu Ghraib scandal, delivered last weekend’s Democratic radio address and blasted President Bush’... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Abu Ghraib • Lindsey Graham • Ricardo Sanchez

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Video Game Troopers Talk Abu Ghraib

Anti-Bush Blacksite game 'genuinely subversive,' says Wired

Nov 19, 07 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Blacksite boasts the usual nasties, but this first-person shooter has them US-trained and -armed—making it “one of the few genuinely subversive games,” says Wired’s Clive Thompson. Most shoot-'em-ups make you "a warrior for the American dream," but Blacksite’s “corrupt authority” is clearly... More »

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Abu Ghraib • aliens • Blacksite • video games

Rumsfeld Says He Has
No Regrets

Ex-defense secretary sleeps just fine, thank you; still backs Bush

Sep 10, 07 7:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ever unflappable, Donald Rumsfeld praises progress in Afghanistan, backs his old boss, and tells GQ he has nothing to apologize for in his first interview since his ouster in December. Rummy still exudes the confidence he was known for in office, dismissing questions of guilt in Iraq, saying, "I... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Bush administration • Abu Ghraib • Donald Rumsfeld

Jury Splits on Abu Ghraib Verdict

Colonel acquitted of abuse charges, convicted for talking about investigation

Aug 28, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - A military jury today acquitted Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, of three charges relating to widespread prisoner abuse that led to global denunciations of US involvement in Iraq. Jordan was found guilty of one count of “willfully disobeying” a... More »

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Abu Ghraib • US military • detainee • Steven Jordan • acquittal • Iraq war

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Agency believed to have teamed up with  Pentagon

Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed,... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • prison • POW • US military • detainee • terrorist • Geneva Convention

(Newser) - Shortly after the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public Major General Antonio M. Taguba was tasked by the Army with investigating and reporting on the situation. He found "Numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees . . . systemic and... More »

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Abu Ghraib • investigation • Antonio Taguba • abuse • prisoners • US Army • international law • Geneva Convention

The Man Who Toppled Saddam Has Second Thoughts

Says US rule is
worse than Hussein's

Mar 19, 07 9:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The former Iraqi weightlifting champion who used a sledgehammer to topple the infamous 20-foot-tall bronze statue of Saddam Hussein four years ago now feels remorse at his symbolic role in the US victory. "I really regret bringing down the statue," Kadhim al-Jubouri says. "The Americans are worse... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Abu Ghraib • Kadhim al Jubouri • statue • Uday Hussein

British Torture
Trial Backfires

Acquittal in case that mirrors
Abu Ghraib sparks public outrage

Mar 14, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The prosecution of a group of British soldiers for mistreating Iraqi detainees—one of whom died under questioning—has backfired on the British government. Four soldiers have been acquitted of various crimes after a three-year investigation. Now the knives are out for leading members of the British government over the... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • United Kingdom • British law • British troops • detainee • Britain • scandal

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