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	Bagram Summary
		In the 1950s the area, with the Islamic name of Bagram, was selected as a main base for the Afghan air force.
		Its airport was widely used by the Red Army during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979–1988).
		Today, Bagram hosts the strategic Bagram Air Base from which most US air activity in Afghanistan takes place.
	www.bookrags.com /Bagram (666 words)

	Bagram Air Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bagram Air Base (ICAO: OAIX) is an airport located at the antique city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
		Bagram Airbase played a key role during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989, serving as a base of operations for troops and supplies.
		Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at the beginning of the conflict, with a number of airborne divisions being deployed there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagram_Air_Base (860 words)

	Bagram torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prisoners, Habibullah and Dilawar, were chained to the ceiling and beaten, which caused their deaths.
		The torture and homicides took place at the military detention center known as the Bagram Collection Point (B.C.P.), which had been built by the Soviets as an aircraft machine shop during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980-1989).
		The investigative file on Bagram, obtained by The Times, showed that the mistreatment of prisoners was routine: shackling them to the ceilings of their cells, depriving them of sleep, kicking and hitting them, sexually humiliating them and threatening them with guard dogs -- the very same behavior later repeated in Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse (1778 words)

	Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse Encyclopedia @ ArtQuilt.com (Art Quilt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prisoners were routinely executed; there are allegations that some of these detainees were subjected to experiments as part of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons program.
		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.
		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.
	www.artquilt.com /encyclopedia/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse (5809 words)

	Articles - Torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i.e.
		Torture is also used as a method of coercion or as a tool to control groups seen as a threat by governments.
		Torture murder is a term given to the commission of torture by an individual or small group, as part of a sadistic or murderous agenda.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Torture (5331 words)

	Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The resulting political scandal damaged the credibility and public image of the United States and its allies in the prosecution of ongoing military operations in the Iraq War, and some critics of U.S. foreign policy argued that it was representative of a broader American attitude and policy of disrespect and violence toward Arabs.
		The U.S. Administration and its defenders argued that the abuses were isolated acts committed by low-ranking personnel, while critics claimed that authorities either ordered or implicitly condoned the abuses and demanded the resignation of senior Bush administration officials.
		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.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse (8284 words)

	War on Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another difference is that the people being held prisoners as part of this "war" are also not given legal status as "prisoners of war" (see Guantanamo Bay detainment camp).
		They state that CIA is using "stress and duress" techniques at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, a base leased from Britain at Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean, and numerous other secret facilities worldwide.
		Critics argue that terrorism is being exploited for other purposes; that it has resulted in human rights abuses; that it has decreased the personal freedom of US (and other) citizens; and that it has served as a pretext for restricting access to government information.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_on_Terrorism (6538 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
		One person, witnessed alive when the survivors were taken prisoner, was later found dead with handcuffs on and a shot to the back of the neck, stomach, and shoulder.
		The Dasht-i-Leili massacre allegedly occurred in December, 2001, when a number (disputed to be between 250 and 3000) Taliban prisoners were shot or suffocated to death in metal truck containers while being transferred by U.S. and Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in northern Afghanistan.
		There are allegations that coalition soldiers tortured prisoners in interrogations; many complaints center on the U.S. prison camp at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/2001_Attack_on_Afghanistan (7940 words)

	Iraq: U.S. Prisoner Abuse Sparks Concerns Over War Crimes (Human Rights Watch, 30-4-2004)
		The photographs show U.S. soldiers smiling, posing and laughing while naked Iraqi prisoners were stacked in a pyramid or positioned committing simulated sex acts.
		Mistreatment that amounts to "torture or inhuman treatment" is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions—or a war crime.
		In Iraq a U.S. army lieutenant colonel who admitted that in August he threatened to kill an Iraqi detainee, firing a shot next to the man's head during a violent interrogation, received a fine as a disciplinary measure, but was not subjected to a court martial.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/04/30/iraq8521.htm (639 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations
		The off-limits patch of ground at Bagram is one of a number of secret detention centers overseas where U.S. due process does not apply, according to several U.S. and European national security officials, where the CIA undertakes or manages the interrogation of suspected terrorists.
		U.S. officials who defend the renditions say the prisoners are sent to these third countries not because of their coercive questioning techniques, but because of their cultural affinity with the captives.
		Although no direct evidence of mistreatment of prisoners in U.S. custody has come to light, the prisoners are denied access to lawyers or organizations, such as the Red Cross, that could independently assess their treatment.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A37943-2002Dec25?language=printer (2547 words)

	Torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The prisoners had possibly been the objects of "abuse," eventually of "humiliation" — that was the most to be admitted.
		That is because the use of torture degrades the torturer to the level where he no longer deserves to be regarded as a human being.
		The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said yesterday evidence pointed to the existence of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States and that it was highly likely European governments were aware of it.
	www.serendipity.li /hr/torture.htm (2427 words)

	Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I cannot understand why Abu Ghraib is synonymous with American mistreatment of prisoners, with Lynddie England its grinning poster child, while far worse abuse reported at a prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, has yet to begin to pierce the nation's conscience.
		England, famous for the photo of her smiling and pointing at a stripped Iraqi prisoner's genitalia, got three years behind bars for her part in humiliating and degrading Iraqi detainees.
		Guards at Bagram routinely kneed prisoners in their thighs -- a blow called a "peroneal strike" -- as a form of punishment.
	www.cageprisoners.com /articles.php?id=12196 (827 words)

	NPR : 'Oath Betrayed' Questions Doctors' Roles in Torture
		Nineteen prisoners are known to have died of beatings, asphyxiation, or being suspended by American soldiers or intelligence officials.
		The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is responsible for determining the cause of death of a prisoner in U.S. facilities in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and at Guantánamo Bay.
		A pathologist must know whether the prisoner had a hood over his head or was gagged, suspended, or bound in a manner that could prevent the chest from expanding and the victim from inhaling.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516533 (2209 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Torture: The Case Against, and Prescription for.....
		Torture and abuse is widespread, punishment is minimal, the government denies almost everything, right up to the point that they have to admit it, and dozens of people have been murdered.
		As to the reassignment of the Bagram investigation, I’d note the WaPo cited it as the longest-running investigation (and that was more than a year ago), because the investigators didn’t think there was criminal intent.
		Torture, in a nutshell, would be physical or psychological punishement for the sake of the suffering itself.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=1878 (15115 words)

	news-bagram
		The New York Times reported this morning on the horrifying story of the beating and death of two Afghan prisoners in the Bagram detention center in December 2002, as revealed in the U.S. Army's investigative file on the case.
		Indeed the picture of wanton brutality that emerges from the Bagram file shows clearly that it is particularly important to reinforce an understanding of fundamental rights among soldiers fighting in counter-terrorist or anti-insurgency situations.
		Prisoners captured in such conflicts are especially vulnerable to abuse because of the perception that they themselves have flouted the rules of war.
	www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-bagram.html (914 words)

	Prisoner abuse scandal - Orlando Sentinel : News
		The shocking abuse and sexual humiliation that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and 2004 was the work of "corrupt cops" who acted for their own enjoyment and without the sanction of their commanders, according to the military's opening statement yesterday in the court-martial of an Army dog handler.
		A United Nations panel investigating torture sharply criticized the United States yesterday, urging that the detention center operated by the Pentagon at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be closed, and that interrogation techniques the panel said led to the death of several prisoners be ended.
		FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal unfolded one night in January with an anonymous letter and a computer disk filled with photos, but according to testimony yesterday, that tip from a concerned soldier was far from the first hint of mistreatment and discord late last year at the Iraqi prison.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /news/bal-prisonerabuse,0,319642.storygallery (6347 words)

	Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
		Beginning in 2003, numerous accounts of abuse and torture of prisoners held in the...
		A Timeline of Torture and Abuse Allegations and...
		Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse at Amazon.com
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse (429 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
		Prisoners were routinely executed; there are allegations that some of these detainees were subjected to experiments as part of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons program.
		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.
	random.dragonslife.org /abu-ghraib-torture-and-prisoner-abuse/5029 (8299 words)

	The Hindu : International : Bagram prisoner abuse: report implicates top military brass
		The investigation shows the military intelligence officers in charge of the detention centre at Bagram airport were redeployed to Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, while still under investigation for the deaths of two detenus months earlier.
		The Bagram case also suggests that some of the prison guards were given little if any training in handling detenus, and were influenced by a White House directive that ``terrorist'' suspects did not deserve the rights given to prisoners of war under the Geneva convention.
		The prosecution dossier from the army's investigation into Bagram, leaked to the New York Times, deals with the deaths of detenus Dilawar and Habibullah (both, as is common for Afghans, taking a single name).
	www.hindu.com /2005/05/22/stories/2005052204911300.htm (660 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - The number-six Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The three dead men were all being held at Camp 1, the highest maximum security prison at the center, and were participants in a wave of hunger strikes staged to protest conditions at the camp.
		But the commander of prison operations at the camp called the suicides, "not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us." "We have men here in Guantanamo who are committed jihadists, al-Qaida and Taliban," said Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris Jr., in a telephone conference call.
		The prisoner was "unresponsive and not breathing.'' He said the guard tried to help the man and guards checked on the other detainees, finding the two others.
	www.furl.net /members/number-six (9333 words)

	Bagram Air Base - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Image:Bagram Air Base.jpgBagram Air Base is located at the antique city of Bagram near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan.
		Many support buildings and base housing built by the Soviets have been destroyed by years of fighting between the various warring Afghan factions.
		Some of the Soviet forces based out of Bagram included the elite 105th Guards Airborne Division.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bagram_Air_Base (880 words)

	Papers reveal Bagram abuse \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Documents obtained by the Guardian contain evidence that such abuses took place in the main detention centre at Bagram, near the capital Kabul, as well as at a smaller US installation near the southern city of Kandahar.
		In a separate case, which the Guardian reveals today, two former prisoners of the US in Afghanistan have come forward with claims against their American captors.
		Another former prisoner of US forces, a Jordanian, describes a form of torture which involved being hung in a cage from a rope for days.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/story/0,1284,1417396,00.html (753 words)

	Torture and Prison Abuse - Empire? - Global Policy Forum
		The acts of torture in the prisons of Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, are in breach of the Geneva Convention.
		The tribunal president told prisoners that international law and rights did not apply in such courts, that the tribunals did not require evidence and that the global nature of the “war on terror” gave the US license to act as a global hegemon.
		The US maintains that the prisoners’ conditions have improved, but critics argue that the “inhumane and immoral treatment of human beings by the United States” led the prisoners to take their own lives.
	www.globalpolicy.org /empire/un/prisonindex.htm (3702 words)

	Nation: Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture
		One was the chaining of prisoners by the arms to the ceilings of their cells.
		During the mid-1880s as an American missionary to Guatemala, she was tortured by men thought to be connected to the American government.
		The organization’s mission is to support torture survivors, including the estimated 500,000 living in the United States, and work for the abolition of torture, which the organization says is currently being practiced by more than 150 governments.
	ncronline.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2006a/032406/032406h.htm (1871 words)

	[TagWorld :: khaled1967 - Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse-The American Democracy in IRAQ]
		The article, entitled "Torture at Abu Ghraib," was followed in the next two weeks by two more articles on the same subject, "Chain of Command” and "The Gray Zone,” also by Mr.
		Part of the reason was that rumours and tall stories, as well as true stories, about abuse, mass rape, and torture in the jails and in coalition custody have been going round for a long time.
		He was sentenced to eight years in prison, forfeiture of pay, a dishonorable discharge and a reduction in rank to private.
	www.tagworld.com /khaled1967/PostDetail.aspx?id=26c79e75-0306-48c9-8588-bfa5b4d62eb4 (3200 words)

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