Rumsfeld approved Iraq interrogation plan, says magazine
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib
Red Cross reports abuse widespread - Says torture part of deliberate tactic
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Feds investigate child porn on P2P networks - 65 arrests, 1,000 cases announced 5/14/04 AP Washington "A nationwide probe into child pornography trafficking using Internet file-sharing networks has resulted in 1,000 investigations and at least 65 arrests, federal officials announced Friday. The broader investigation centers on the growing use of "peer-to-peer," or P2P, networks that allow users to connect computers directly with one another to exchange files rather than using traditional Internet servers that are easier to track." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4980441/
this one paragraph fwd from L Moss Sharman More details in pornography case - Responding to a motion by Stephen W. Thompson's lawyers, a U.S. prosecutor defended the seizure of a "monstrous" cache from the ex-judge's Shore home. By John Shiffman Inquirer Staff Writer 5/13/04 Camden "A federal prosecutor said yesterday that a "monstrous collection" of child pornography kept by a former state Superior Court judge had been lawfully seized from his Shore home. In a legal filing, the prosecutor said Stephen W. Thompson's cache of child pornography included "thousands of images of naked or partially naked children engaged in sexually explicit conduct." At one point, the judge kept 20 such images on the laptop computer he used on the bench in Camden County, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Carrig. From the desktop in his chambers, Carrig said, Thompson e-mailed a Web site that sold child pornography and downloaded information from a "travel sex guide" site. Thompson is charged with possession of child pornography and traveling to Russia to videotape himself having sex with a teenage boy." http://www.philly.com/
Drunken Priest Shoots Mayor Dead 5/13/04 Mexico City (Reuters) "A Catholic priest shot to death the mayor of a town in western Mexico early on Wednesday after the pair got drunk and began punching each other during a religious festival, state officials said. After exchanging blows, the priest whipped out a 9mm pistol and fired four bullets into Lorenzo Ruiz, mayor of Chalpatlahuac, an indigenous town nestled in mountains 138 miles west of the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo, authorities said." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5133112&src="">
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Rumsfeld approved Iraq interrogation plan, says magazine
16.05.2004
12.00pm WASHINGTON - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a plan that brought unconventional interrogation methods to Iraq to gain intelligence about the growing insurgency, ultimately leading to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, the New Yorker magazine reported on Saturday. Rumsfeld, who has been under fire for the prisoner abuse scandal, gave the green light to methods previously used in Afghanistan for gathering intelligence on members of al Qaeda, which the United States blames for the September 11, 2001, attacks, the magazine reported on its website.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact
THE GRAY ZONE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. Issue of 2004-05-24
Posted 2004-05-15
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld's decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of Ãlite combat units, and hurt America's prospects in the war on terror. According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon's operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld's long-standing desire to wrest control of America's clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A.
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has graphic descriptions of torture and abuse
MayÂ12, 2004
Awful images from 7th circle of Hell
Red Cross reports abuse widespread
Says torture part of deliberate tactic
OAKLAND ROSS
FEATURE WRITER
Hell, in Iraq, erupts at night.
First, they break down your door and clamber inside â large, Yankee soldiers in combat gear with automatic rifles.
They bark orders, wrest men, women and children from their beds, assemble everyone in a single room. They start smashing your possessions in front of you â cabinets, chairs, tables, anything.
They shout insults, brandish their weapons, kick and punch their captives, striking out with their rifle barrels at anyone who resists.
They handcuff those they want â typically, anyone who happens to be male, no matter how old or infirm.
They hustle their prisoners, generally clad only in pyjamas or underwear, out into the dark Iraqi night. Essential items, such as eyeglasses or medicine, are invariably left behind.
They don't say where they are taking you, they don't say why, and they probably never will.
You are terrified, practically naked, already in acute physical distress, and almost certainly innocent of wrongdoing, but that doesn't seem to matter a whit.
This â as depicted in a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross â is merely the first circle of hell in an Iraq under occupation by U.S.-led military forces, and your torment has barely begun....
it should be noted that the vast majority of the political detainees in Iraq are likely innocent of any wrongdoing. According to the Red Cross report, coalition military intelligence officers themselves estimate that somewhere between 70 and 90 per cent of those whom they detain have been picked up by mistake and are guilty of nothing at all, except the crime of living in an occupied country and stumbling into a foreign-administered hell.
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