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Topic: Human rights situation in post Saddam Iraq

	Abu Ghraib prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under the regime of Saddam Hussein the facility was under the control of the Directorate of General Security (Amn al-Amm) and was the site of the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners—up to 4000 prisoners are thought to have been executed there in 1984 alone.
		See human rights situation in Saddam's Iraq for a discussion of the context of these events.
		An expansion of the prison was underway prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/ab/abu_ghraib_prison.html (785 words)

	Iraq
		Human rights abuses remain difficult to document because of the Government's efforts to conceal the facts, including its prohibition on the establishment of independent human rights organizations, its persistent refusal to grant visits to human rights monitors, and its continued restrictions designed to prevent dissent.
		Saddam Hussein's son Uday was elected to the National Assembly by receiving 99.9 percent of the vote.
		The report strongly criticized the "systematic, widespread, and extremely grave violations of human rights" and of international humanitarian law by the Government, which it stated resulted in "all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror." The report called on the Government to fulfill its obligations under international human rights treaties.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/8257.htm (13083 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Middle East & Northern Africa: Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
		Human rights abuses were committed by Kurdish opposition groups, including by Islamist groups in the context of clashes with PUK forces.
		In the areas under its control, Ansar al-Islam continued to perpetrate human rights abuses, notably the arbitrary arrest and detention of suspected PUK sympathizers and others accused of contravening the strict Islamic code imposed by the group.
		In late September, Iraq held talks in Vienna with UNMOVIC and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on practical arrangements for the resumption of inspections, and an agreement was announced on October 1.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k3/mideast4.html (3901 words)

	Camp Cropper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In contrast to the Abu Ghraib prison, this facility holds comparatively fewer inmates who are considered high-value by the U.S. occupation of Iraq, including former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
		Rumsfeld later told reporters that the prisoner was treated humanely.
		The facility was scheduled to be shut down after the June 2004 handover date of Iraqi sovereignty, but as of May 2005 the Camp is still being used.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Camp_Cropper (153 words)

	The Command Post - Global War On Terror - Statement from 9/11 Commission
		Posted by: bananas at June 17, 2004 01:12 AM I was lied to by the left, which falsely claimed that Bush said Iraq was linked to 911.
		Posted by: symptomless at June 17, 2004 05:47 AM The majority of American people believe there is a connection because they are free to apply common sense to the situation, something govt has lost the knack for.
		Posted by: johnnymozart at June 17, 2004 01:55 PM Also, i would be interested in your opinion on an approach to mecca that would not alienate all the Muslims that you are so concerned that we are alienating now.
	www.command-post.org /gwot/2_archives/012897.html (18229 words)

	(DV) Lobe: Iraqi Governing Council Plans Latest Assault on Women's Rights in Iraq
		One of the three female members of the IGC, a champion of women's rights, was killed this past fall and her replacement is widely viewed as a conservative.
		According to the Rocky Mountain News, when the adviser on human rights issues for the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, Salwa Ali, tried to be a part of the local elections in Baghdad, she found that the neighborhood was plastered with fliers stating that women were not allowed.
		Since the ouster of former president Saddam Hussein by U.S.-led forces last April, religious conservatives in both Shia and Sunni parts of Iraq are said to have become increasingly prominent and influential.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Feb04/Lobe0207.htm (1356 words)

	Healing Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I'm sure Saddam is proud of you and clapping his hands in glee watching from whatever gutter he is hiding in right now.
		Everytime Saddam Hussein was asked about the reasons he waged war on Iran and Kuwait, he would answer coldly: It is always 'the other' who conspires against the great achievements of Al-Thawra (the revolution).
		When we expressed our joy for the fall of Saddam, the conspiracy theorists would poke their noses and explain to us that 'it is America that has removed this tyrant, why rejoice to that?'.
	healingiraq.blogspot.com /archives/2003_11_01_healingiraq_archive.html (15184 words)

	Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
		Iraq received massive external financial support from the Gulf states, and assistance through loan programs from the U.S. The White House and State Department pressured the Export-Import Bank to provide Iraq with financing, to enhance its credit standing and enable it to obtain loans from other international financial institutions.
		In February 1984, Iraq's military, expecting a major Iranian attack, issued a warning that "the invaders should know that for every harmful insect there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it whatever the number and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide" [Document 41].
		Iraq's ambassador met with the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Jeane Kirkpatrick, and asked for "restraint" in responding to the issue - as did the representatives of both France and Britain.
	www2.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82 (7873 words)

	The War on Terrorism: Saddam Hussein and Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government: (http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/reps/iraq/cover.htm).
		Iraq: Former and Recent Military Confrontations With the United States: (http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14836.pdf).
		Human Rights Watch: Background on the Crisis in Iraq: (http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/iraq/).
	personal.ecu.edu /durantd/wot/iraq.html (2890 words)

	Human Rights
		It is a gross violation of human rights that Ernst Zündel is locked up in solitary confinement and denied basic legal rights for stating what he believes (based on evidence he has presented in his writings) to be the truth.
		Western governments are great supporters of "human rights" — provided that the rights involved are not those of their own citizens and that concern for such in other countries does not threaten the profits of international capitalism.
		Kosovo is not the only place in the world conducting human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing. What the U.S. government doesn't want the American public to know is that the same crimes that NATO forces were so determined to stop in Kosovo are happening right now within United States borders.
	www.serendipity.li /hr.html (6542 words)

	State Department experts warned CENTCOM before Iraq war about lack of plans for post-war Iraq security
		The declassified records relate mainly to the so-called "Future of Iraq Project," an effort, initially run by the State Department then by the Pentagon, to plan for the transition to a new regime after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
		Directed to embassy posts in several allied countries, the State Department cable announces the establishment of 15 "Future of Iraq Project" working groups to prepare for the transition to a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, adding that priority subjects had been identified at a "planning meeting with Iraqis on April 9-10."
		One month before the beginning of U.S. military operations in Iraq, three State Department bureau chiefs warn of "serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance" in a memorandum prepared for Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky (Democracy and Global Affairs).
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB163 (630 words)

	Conflict in Iraq 2003-2004: General
		This is the website of a non-governmental organization (NGO) that tracks down human development reports on the health and living conditions of people in developing countries around the world. It includes a number of reports from the UN and other NGOs on the humanitarian consequences of the war in Iraq.
		Thoughts, comments, and analysis on current events in Iraq, by Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Cole is an expert on the Shiites of Iraq.
		University of Chastings library resources’ portal on Iraq covers the legal aspect of the war on Iraq and includes reports on the laws of war, inspections and sanctions, human rights, treatment of prisoners and much more.
	www.loc.gov /rr/amed/conflictinIraq/General.html (556 words)

	Articles - Mark Kimmitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt, US Army, is the spokesman for the US military in Iraq.
		At press conferences, he is often partnered by the civilian CPA spokesperson Dan Senor.
		Of the substandard human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq he says "because the scale of this was so small that the people of Iraq will forgive us."[3]
	www.gaple.com /articles/Mark_Kimmitt (436 words)

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