
	Where results make sense

Topic: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

Related Topics

Coalition prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison

Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse

Megan Ambuhl

Joseph Darby

Strappado

Medieval Inquisition

Crucifixion

Afanasy Fet

Gypsies

Modest Mussorgsky

Disembowelment

Ivan IV of Russia

Fernando Botero

Nomad

Romany language

In the News (Tue 17 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain or grief as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent, revenge or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confessions.
		Torture was abolished in England about 1640 (except peine forte et dure which was only abolished in 1772), in Scotland in 1708, in Prussia in 1740, in Russia in 1801.
		Other torture methods could include the rack (stretching the victim’s joints to breaking point), the thumbscrew, the boot (crushing the foot and leg), water (massive quantities of water forcibly ingested), and the medieval red-hot pincers, although it was technically against church policy to mutilate a person's body.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Torture (4407 words)

	Abu Ghraib prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under Hussein's Ba'ath government, it was known as Abu Ghraib Prison and had a reputation as a place of torture and some of the worst cases of torture in the modern world.
		The prison complex was built by British contractors in the 1960s, and covered 280 acres (1.15 km²) with a total of 24 guard towers.
		All [prisoners in Iraq] except those held by the Ministry of Justice are, technically speaking, held against the law because the Ministry of Justice is the only authority that is empowered by law to detain, to hold anybody in prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Ghraib_(prison) (1833 words)

	Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In her video diary, a prison guard said that prisoners were shot for minor misbehavior, and claimed to have had venomous snakes bite prisoners, sometimes resulting in their deaths.
		It was discovered that one prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, died as a result of abuse, a death that was ruled a homicide by the military.
		This was the first internal evidence since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair became public in April, 2004 that forms of abusive coercion and torture of captives had been mandated by the President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse (8021 words)

	Abu Ghraib Files - Salon.com News
		The prisoner in perhaps the most iconic photo from Abu Ghraib, the hooded man standing on a box with electrical wires attached to his hands, was being interrogated by the CID itself for his alleged role in the kidnapping and murder of two American soldiers in Iraq.
		As Walter Shapiro wrote, Abu Ghraib symbolizes "the failure of a democratic society to investigate well-documented abuses by its soldiers." The documentary record of the abuse has come out in the media in a piecemeal fashion, often lacking context or description.
		Abu Ghraib in fall 2003 may have been its own particular hell, but the variations of individual abuse perpetrated appear to be exceptional in only one way: They were photographed and filmed.
	www.salon.com /news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/index.html (2095 words)

	Abu Ghurayb Prison - Iraq Security Organization Facilities
		The suspected abuse took place at a prison (Abu Ghraib) outside Baghdad, which was a notorious penitentiary during the rule of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
		On May 12, 2004, an additional general court-martial related to Abu Ghraib were announced against Sergeant Javal S. Davis under five charges of conspiracy to maltreat subordinates, dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, rendering false official statements and assault.
		On Aug. 11 2004, Specialist Megan Ambuhl was arraigned on charges related to prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/abu-ghurayb-prison-abuse.htm (2176 words)

	War on Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Saudi born Zayn al-Abidn Muhammed Hasayn Abu Zubaydah was arrested by Pakistani officials during a series of joint US and Pakistan raids during the week of March 23, 2002.
		Abu Bakar Ba'asyir was imprisoned on charged of treason for his support of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings.
		The operations were mainly focused on removing the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) from their stronghold on the island of Basilan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_on_Terrorism (5142 words)

	Photos show torture, 29 Apr 04
		According to the U.S. military, this prisoner was told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted by the wires attached to his fingers.
		CBS says they were taken late last year at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, where American soldiers were holding hundreds of prisoners captured during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
		One picture shows an Iraqi prisoner who was told to stand on a box with his head covered and wires attached to his hands.
	www.notinourname.net /war/torture-29apr04.htm (912 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the era of Saddam Hussein, Abu Ghraib, twenty miles west of Baghdad, was one of the world’s most notorious prisons, with torture, weekly executions, and vile living conditions.
		The picture he draws of Abu Ghraib is one in which Army regulations and the Geneva conventions were routinely violated, and in which much of the day-to-day management of the prisoners was abdicated to Army military-intelligence units and civilian contract employees.
		As the photographs from Abu Ghraib make clear, these detentions have had enormous consequences: for the imprisoned civilian Iraqis, many of whom had nothing to do with the growing insurgency; for the integrity of the Army; and for the United States’ reputation in the world.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?040510fa_fact (3359 words)

	USA: Pattern of brutality and cruelty -- war crimes at Abu Ghraib - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Former Guantánamo prisoner, Walid al-Qadasi, was held in a secret detention facility in Kabul.
		Amnesty International is concerned that the investigation headed by Major General Antonio Taguba, which found "systematic and illegal abuse of detainees" in Abu Ghraib, was not intended for public release, and that the administration’s current response only came once the report and photographic evidence became public.
		In fact the "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuse" found by Taguba constitute acts of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and are war crimes.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGAMR510772004 (870 words)

	Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed, 60 Minutes II Has Exclusive Report On Alleged Mistreatment - CBS News
		According to the U.S. Army, one Iraqi prisoner was told to stand on a box with his head covered, wires attached to his hands.
		For decades under Saddam Hussein, many prisoners who were taken to the Abu Ghraib prison never came out.
		There are shots of the prisoners stacked in a pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml (1010 words)

	Prisoner Abuse, Abu Ghraib
		"Iraq abuse 'ordered from the top': The US commander at the centre of the Iraqi prisoner scandal says she was told to treat detainees like dogs.
		MP general ousted from post in Iraq: She had overall command of soldiers accused in Abu Ghraib prison abuses, Tom Bowman, Baltimore Sun, May 25, 2004
		Coalition under fire in Iraq for wedding strike, new prisoner abuse photos, AFP, May 20, 2004.
	www.cdi.org /news/law/prisoner-abuse-news-watch.cfm (831 words)

	Salon exclusive: The Abu Ghraib files \| Salon.com News
		The source who gave the CID material to Salon is someone who spent time at Abu Ghraib as a uniformed member of the military and is familiar with the CID investigation.
		They include: a naked, handcuffed prisoner in a contorted position; a dead prisoner who had been severely beaten; a prisoner apparently sodomizing himself with an object; and a naked, hooded prisoner standing next to an American officer who is blandly writing a report against a wall.
		It is noteworthy that some of the CID documents refer to CIA personnel as interrogators of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib (1038 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We are concerned that, as at Abu Ghraib, the U.S. government appears more interested in blaming abuses on low-level personnel than in investigating the role of commanding officers and civilian officials.” [26] When she transferred to Abu Ghraib in August 2003, Wood is reported to have “posted her own list of ‘interrogation rules of engagement,’
		Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him… information or a confession, punishing him for an act he… has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him.
		In an interview with Reuters, Pace claimed that Abu Ghraib was not mandated by UN Resolution 1546, according to which the US government has claimed a legal mandate permitting its ongoing occupation of Iraq, including holding prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
	random.dragonslife.org /abu-ghraib-torture-and-prisoner-abuse/5029 (8299 words)

	torture - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Torture (2 syl.) : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		Phrases that include torture: torture chamber, abu ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, anal torture, bagram torture and prisoner abuse, bind torture kill, more...
		Words similar to torture: agony, anguish, distortion, excruciate, overrefinement, rack, straining, torment, tortured, torturer, torturing, twisting, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=torture&ls=a (287 words)

	More Abu Ghraib Photos Emerge Despite Defiant Pentagon, Press - The NewStandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Feb. 16 – Newly released images of abuse perpetrated by US personnel at Iraqâs Abu Ghraib prison hit the Internet and the Australian airwaves yesterday, reopening an issue that top US officials and some news organizations had laid to rest.
		Salon published photographs of a badly beaten corpse, a prisoner apparently sodomizing himself with a yellow object, blood smeared floors, and prisoners naked, handcuffed, hooded and placed in uncomfortable or painful positions.
		It has been known since 2004 that in addition to the photographs initially uncovered by the press, there was more visual evidence of abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib.
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/2821 (1030 words)

	Fernando Botero Lawsuit Botero Biography - Art Brokers USA, Publix - Garfinkel Trial Group
		In early 2004, Botero donated a series of 23 oil paintings and 27 drawings depicting different elements of the country's longlasting violence, created between 1999 and 2004, to the National Museum of Colombia, which were first publicly displayed between May 4 and June 11.
		In early 2005, Botero revealed a series of 50 paintings that graphically represent the controversial Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, expressing the rage and shock that the incident provoked in the artist.
		The works will be initially presented in expositions throughout Europe.
	www.garfinkeltrialgroup.com /botero-bio.htm (320 words)

	The Memory Hole > Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel
		Abu Ghraib Interrogations "A Total Waste of Time"
		Document: Intel Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse Were Threatened
		The images below were broadcast by Dateline, a show on the Special Broadcast Service in Australia.
	www.thememoryhole.org /war/iraqis_tortured (156 words)

	Pentagon Rejects Order to Release Abu Ghraib Abuse Images - The NewStandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		People who have seen the videos, including members of Congress and reporter Seymour Hersh, have reported they include scenes involving far worse abuses than have so far reached the public, including rape and lewd acts committed against and in front of prisoners.
		In a statement Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union accused the government of trying to "shield itself from public scrutiny." The group, which is party to the lawsuit demanding that the photos and videos be made public, warned that it is possible that the evidence may never be made public.
		The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Friday expressed concern that the government is attempting to cover up the abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib.
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/2142 (510 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)