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	Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iraq War (2003-present) is a military engagement encompassing the invasion and occupation of Iraq by a U.S. -led coalition and an ongoing asymmetrical war between an insurgency and coalition troops.
		Conflict between Iraq and the U.N. developed during 1998, however, which led to the withdrawal of the U.N. and the authorization of a bombing campaign by the Clinton administration to "degrade Saddam's capacity to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction, and to degrade his ability to threaten his neighbors".
		The coalition and the Coalition Provisional Authority decided to face the growing insurgency with a pair of assaults: one on Fallujah, the center of the "Mohammed's Army of Al-Ansar", and another on Najaf, home of an important mosque, which had become the focal point for the Mahdi Army and its activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraq_War (5637 words)

	iraqometer.com iraq war cost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A poll conducted by the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies in June 2004 found that 80 percent of Iraqis believe that coalition forces should leave either immediately or directly after the election.
		Iraq's hospitals continue to suffer from lack of supplies and an overwhelming number of patients.
		Despite the proclaimed "transfer of sovereignty" to Iraq, the country continues to be occupied by U.S. and coalition troops and has severely limited political and economic independence.
	www.iraqometer.com (2161 words)

	The Oakland Press: National: Soldiers charged with abusing prisoners
		BAGHDAD, Iraq - The American military brought charges on Saturday of assault, cruelty, indecent acts and maltreatment of detainees against six soldiers in connection with alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq.
		Besides the criminal investigation, an equally significant inquiry is under way, a possibly far-reaching administrative review of commanders' policies regarding detainees and of internal procedures in use at all of the prisons in Iraq that are controlled by occupation forces.
		Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that governs members of the armed services, the six now face a hearing to determine whether the case will go forward to trial.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/032104/nat_20040321005.shtml (527 words)

	Most prisoners in Iraq jails called 'threat to security' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 06, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nearly all 8,080 prisoners being held by U.S. authorities in Iraq are considered security threats: insurgents linked to attacks on coalition forces, and terrorists and former officials of Saddam Hussein's regime suspected of having useful intelligence, military officials say.
		According to an Army report on prisoner abuses made public last week, the CIA also kept a small number of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison that were handled secretly and outside of formal prison administration.
		Additionally, the coalition is detaining fewer than 30 Iraqis as enemy prisoners of war captured during the period of major combat operation, the spokesman said.
	www.washingtontimes.com /national/20040506-121952-7636r.htm (862 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		Most of the prisoners, however—by the fall there were several thousand, including women and teen-agers—were civilians, many of whom had been picked up in random military sweeps and at highway checkpoints.
		In November, Frederick wrote, an Iraqi prisoner under the control of what the Abu Ghraib guards called “O.G.A.,” or other government agencies—that is, the C.I.A. and its paramilitary employees—was brought to his unit for questioning.
		Under the fourth Geneva convention, an occupying power can jail civilians who pose an “imperative” security threat, but it must establish a regular procedure for insuring that only civilians who remain a genuine security threat be kept imprisoned.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040510fa_fact (3359 words)

	Prisoners accused coalition partners of abuse - Iraq Abuse Scandal - MSNBC.com
		A U.S. soldier stands guard at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, after the military moved detainees to the newly built Camp Redemption in response to the abuse reported at the prison.
		The report suggests that prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers went beyond the torture and humiliation of prisoners at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
		Defense lawyers are likely to present evidence of abuse by coalition forces and military intelligence operatives during courts-martial for the six accused soldiers who have yet to go to trial.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5032107 (1055 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| US military police raid Iraqi detention centre to stop abuse of prisoners
		According to an al-Jazeera television crew, who had been filming the prisoners when the US military police conducted their raid, most of the detainees were blindfolded, with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
		One prisoner was so weak, from dehydration, that the US military policemen fitted an intravenous drip to rehydrate him.
		The clear evidence of human rights abuses in the ministry building, which western advisers said they were not aware was being used for interrogations, raises serious questions over what authority the US and other multinational forces have to intervene if they suspect human rights abuses.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1250526,00.html (716 words)

	CNN.com - Iraq official defends 'torture' facility - Nov 18, 2005
		The interior minister said an investigation was under way into the torture allegations and that he has discussed the allegations with Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, AP reported.
		Hassan said her ministry has received claims of torture and abuse by people of various ethnicities in Iraq and has spoken with some of the detainees from the Interior Ministry compound.
		He displayed a report with what he said were photographs of abuse victims and a CD that he said contained the information he planned to present to the United Nations and other international organizations.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.detainees/index.html (1409 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FAMILIES of soldiers killed in Iraq won a dramatic court ruling against the government yesterday, taking them one step closer to forcing ministers to unveil a legal justification for the invasion.
		THE families of British soldiers killed in Iraq won a dramatic legal breakthrough today in their bid to force a full public inquiry into why Britain entered the conflict.
		UNDER a baking desert sun, Britain yesterday gave up control of a small corner of Iraq.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=404&id=338892006 (570 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| US general suspended over abuse
		A US general has been suspended in Iraq over the alleged abuse of prisoners by US troops in jails she ran.
		Gen Kimmitt, the deputy head of coalition forces in Iraq, said the suspected abusers "let their fellow soldiers down".
		The prison where the abuses are alleged to have taken place was a notorious torture centre during the Saddam Hussein era.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3669331.stm (570 words)

	CNN.com - Al-Sadr vows to continue fight - May 12, 2004
		Al-Sadr's forces fought U.S. troops near a mosque in Karbala, during an ongoing U.S.-led operation to disarm insurgents, according to a senior coalition military official.
		In the overnight fighting in Karbala, seven coalition soldiers were wounded, according to the coalition.
		The U.S. Army general in charge of the investigation into abuse of some Iraqi prisoners told a Senate committee hearing Tuesday that "a failure of leadership" was to blame for the situation but said there was no evidence the soldiers involved were acting under orders.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/12/iraq.main/index.html (781 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / U.S.: Afghan prisoners treated humanely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The U.S. military said Saturday it was treating its prisoners in Afghanistan "humanely," a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologized for abuses in Iraq.
		The deaths of three Afghans in secretive American detention centers are currently under investigation, and rights groups point to lingering allegations of torture of prisoners who have been held here.
		He said he didn't know if that review was prompted by the investigation of abuse of prisoners in Iraq, which began in January.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/05/08/us_afghan_prisoners_treated_humanely (490 words)

	IRAQ THE MODEL
		The national reconciliation initiative in Iraq is being interpreted in several manners that often reflect the perspective of rival political and religious powers but it remains a fact in my opinion that this reconciliation is not designed for the silent majority that is silently enduring the rough situation and preferred not to join this conflict.
		Baghdad is the key to Iraq, and Iraq is the key to the Middle East, and from this fact this battle draws its significance.
		So far, everybody in Iraq feels good about Maliki's plan and expressed their hopes for it to meet success and ease the suffering of the Iraqi people; everybody except for the Sadrists and the association of Muslim scholars who both criticized the plan and said it wasn't acceptable and expected it to fail.
	iraqthemodel.blogspot.com (11340 words)

	Iraq's Child Prisoners - [Sunday Herald]
		In another witness statement, passed to the Sunday Herald, former prisoner Thaar Salman Dawod said: “[I saw] two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and [a US soldier] was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners.
		Unicef was informed that the coalition forces were planning to transfer all children in adult facilities to this ‘specialised’ child detention centre.
		Alistair Hodgett, media director of Amnesty International USA, said the coalition forces needed to be “transparent” about their policy of child detentions, adding: “Secrecy is one thing that rings alarm bells.” Amnesty was given brief access to one jail in Mosul, he said, but has been repeatedly turned away from all others.
	www.sundayherald.com /43796 (1888 words)

	CNN.com - Source: Rumsfeld to form abuse probe panel - May 7, 2004
		Antonio Taguba, confirmed that Iraqi prisoners were being abused by soldiers and military contractors, according to a report of the probe.
		The report said the abuse included threatening detainees with a pistol and with military dogs, sodomizing a prisoner with a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick, forcing naked prisoners into compromising positions and accusing them of being homosexuals.
		A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Pentagon to demolish the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in order to exorcise a symbol of both Saddam Hussein's torture chambers and an embarrassing episode for the U.S. military.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/06/iraq.abuse.main/index.html (1405 words)

	Online NewsHour: Iraqi Prisoner Abuse -- May 4, 2004
		At the Pentagon this afternoon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the military's first investigation was launched the day after the abuses were reported, a press release on the allegations was issued in mid-January, and six investigations either are completed or ongoing.
		And the fact that it happens, notwithstanding the fact that it's against everything that they're taught, against everything that we believe, it's also against anything that any individual on their own ought to believe is right.
		But this type of abuse, we were told by our briefers, was not similar to the other types, which we were informed about, at least numerically.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/jan-june04/abuse1_05-04.html (2911 words)

	Informed Comment: 05/01/2004 - 05/31/2004
		What we also sought to do was record the needs of Iraq’s academic and intellectual community as it rebuilds itself in the face of a generation of brutish rule by Saddam Hussein, a decade of debilitating UN sanctions, a brief and humiliating war, and an open-ended American-led military occupation.
		More problematic for the future of higher education in Iraq, the ostensible reason he is there, is that his appointment signaled that the CPA was intent on peopling its bureaucracy with politically loyal agents, rather than those most objectively qualified to assist Iraq.
		The report is the first comprehensive account of Iraq’s intellectual and cultural scene after the war and provides the most detailed study of Iraq’s university system as it begins to rebuild in the wake of the war.
	www.juancole.com /2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html (15333 words)

	INDOlink - US News - Iraq Coalition Forces For Immunity After June 30: Report
		Baghdad, May 23 (NNN): Faced with recent outcry over tales of torture in Gulf nation’s prisons, the coalition in Iraq wants its troops to remain immune from prosecution by Iraqis after the handover of power on June 30, it is reported on Sunday.
		Currently under an order signed by the Coalition Provisional Authority, known as Order 17, coalition forces have immunity from prosecution.
		These claims follow a string of allegations of abuse against Iraqis and the release of a series of graphic images of prisoners being humiliated and tortured by US forces.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=052304014308 (491 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Hundreds of detainees in Iraq freed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She said a total of 494 prisoners, picked up in security operations, were freed on Tuesday, 272 of them from Abu Ghraib prison on the western edge of Baghdad.
		Abu Ghraib is one of the largest US-run prisons in Iraq and was a notorious centre under former president Saddam Hussein.
		According to a US-occupation forces' estimate, about 8000 Iraqis are being held in the country's jails because they are considered a "security threat".
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/9C4D0BDC-F109-4A72-B48C-15344CC24869.htm (291 words)

	Probe ordered into reported abuse of Baghdad prisoners - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		The announcement followed allegations by Amnesty International and former prisoners of harsh treatment of detainees arrested by U.S. and coalition forces since the Iraq war began last March.
		Earlier this month, three Army reservists were discharged for abuse of prisoners at the Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq.
		Other former detainees have spoken of systematic abuse, although U.S. authorities insist that conditions are in line with provisions of the Geneva Conventions.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3980001 (486 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Abu Ghraib prison abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		THE US army has charged the former head of the interrogation centre at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq with cruelty and maltreatment, dereliction of duty and other criminal offences.
		ABU Ghraib, the prison that served as a house of torture under Saddam Hussein and was latterly the scene of the US military's worst prisoner abuse scandal, is to be handed over to the Iraqi government.
		NEARLY 100 prisoners have died in United States' custody in the war on terror in Iraq and...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1185&id=338892006 (530 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Bush 'disgusted' by Iraq abuses
		In another development, an Iraqi force has begun moving into the strife-torn city of Falluja as US marines pull back to positions outside the city, to the jubilation of many residents.
		US military officials hope the new Iraqi force, led by one of Saddam Hussein's former generals, will be able to gain the trust of residents.
		The prisoner with wires attached to his genitals was told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted, CBS said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3674355.stm (589 words)

	Soldiers accused of abusing prisoners
		"The coalition takes all reports of detainee abuse seriously, and all allegations of mistreatment are investigated," Kimmitt said.
		Even so, the announcement will doubtless be cited by human rights groups, as well as former Iraqi detainees, as further evidence to bolster their claims that the U.S. military has treated prisoners harshly or abused them in certain cases.
		The U.S.-led multinational force is holding about 9,500 suspected insurgents and criminals, a military spokesman said Saturday.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/21/MNGH15OOPH1.DTL&type=printable (310 words)

	Amnesty: Iraqis Complain of Torture by U.S. Forces
		The prison had held Saddam's political prisoners, and now is run by U.S. forces to hold detainees.
		Amnesty staff heard complaints that included prolonged sleep deprivation and detainees being forced to stay in painful positions or wear hoods over their heads for long periods.
		The organization made several requests to visit detention centers but were denied access by U.S. forces that have struggled to impose law and order since the invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein in April.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0723-01.htm (683 words)

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