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Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
Denver Post: "U.S. Army officials plan to file negligent-homicide and manslaughter charges against two Fort Carson-based military intelligence officers who allegedly suffocated an Iraqi general during an interrogation in November, The Denver Post has learned.
According to documents obtained by The Post, once the general was in U.S. custody on Nov. 10, he underwent more than two weeks of daily interrogations involving personnel with 'OGA', a pseudonym for the CIA, as well as special-forces soldiers with Operational Detachment Alpha and members of the 66th. The special-forces troops and 'OGA' personnel are suspected of beating the general at the facility in Qaim, Iraq, sometime in the 48-hour time span before the military intelligence officers took over, according to witness statements, the report states."
8:29:44 PM 
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Tucson Citizen: "President Bush claimed the right to waive antitorture laws and treaties covering prisoners of war after the invasion of Afghanistan, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized guards to strip detainees and threaten them with dogs, documents released yesterday show."
10:26:03 AM
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Letter: "As members of university faculties in law, international relations, diplomacy, and public policy, we write to register our objection to the systematic violation of human rights practiced or permitted by authorities of the United States within occupied Iraq during recent months.
Given the accumulation of reliable evidence demonstrating the practice of torture and degrading treatment of detainees by U.S. forces, and given Executive responsibility for creating the conditions enabling such practice to occur, and with regard for democratic responsibility with respect to these issues at the heart of our understanding of our nation, its culture and values, we ask that Congress take action to:
(1) assess responsibility for the abuses that have taken place, identifying the officials at all levels who must be held accountable for enabling these abuses to occur and for the failure to investigate them, and determining what sanctions, including impeachment and removal from office of any civil officer of the United States responsible, may be appropriate;
(2) decide whether the U.S. should have an official policy of coercion in connection with interrogation, and if so what form it should take as well as what safeguards it should include to protect against abuses in violation of the policy."
10:20:26 AM
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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