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February 26, 2005
5 G.I.'s Killed and 9 Injured Across Iraq in 24 Hours
By JOHN F. BURNS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 - The United States military command on Friday
announced the deaths of five American soldiers and the wounding of at least
nine others. The day's biggest attack, a roadside bomb blast in a town
outside Baghdad, struck a patrol on what was to be one of the last combat
missions for some members of the First Cavalry Division before they returned
home.
The bombing, in Tarmiya, 30 miles north of Baghdad on the Tigris, killed
three soldiers and wounded nine. Witnesses said the soldiers had dismounted
from a convoy of Humvees and had begun a foot patrol when the bomb
detonated. Tarmiya is in the heart of the so-called Sunni Triangle, which
has been hit by a new wave of insurgent attacks since the Jan. 30 elections.
The bomb appeared to have been hidden among palm trees beside the road,
according to an Associated Press account quoting local residents. The
account described about a dozen American soldiers lying "on blood-spattered
ground" after the attack, and said American and Iraqi forces quickly sealed
off the area. The dead and wounded were flown to an American field hospital
in Baghdad aboard Black Hawk helicopters.
In addition to the victims from the bomb, the command said that one marine
was killed Thursday in combat operations in Anbar Province, a main
stronghold of the insurgency, and that a soldier died in Baghdad on Friday
from "nonbattle injuries" that it did not describe. Insurgent attacks also
killed at least 15 Iraqis in different incidents, mostly in the Sunni
Triangle.
[On Saturday, the military said another United States marine had been killed
Friday in Anbar Province during military operations, Reuters reported.]
A command spokesman said the patrol attacked in Tarmiya was a mixed group
comprising soldiers of the First Cavalry Division and the Third Infantry
Division, which are in the midst of a handover of military operations in
Baghdad and outlying districts. The cavalry division, based in Fort Hood,
Tex., has already begun sending some of its soldiers home as part of an
annual rotation in which most of the 155,000 American troops now in Iraq
will be replaced by new units by April. The Third Infantry Division, based
in Fort Stewart, Ga., has returned for its second tour, after leading the
American drive north from Kuwait and capturing Baghdad in April 2003.
At the moment the patrol was bombed, the two top officers in the Baghdad
handover, Maj. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli of the cavalry division, and Maj.
Gen. William G. Webster of the infantry division, who will formally assume
command in Baghdad on Sunday, were holding a joint news conference in
Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone.
General Chiarelli said the "hardest part" of going home was the fact that
more than 160 of his men had been killed, along with more than 1,200
wounded. He said the division's casualties in the month since the elections
were among the lowest since the division arrived here last year, then added,
"But that could change very, very quickly."
General Webster said about 50 percent of the Third Infantry Division's
soldiers were on their second tour in Iraq, but they accepted the importance
of the mission, even if "combat is a cup that soldiers would just as soon
let pass, especially on the second and third time around."
But both officers said they believed American and Iraqi forces were gaining
the upper hand on the insurgents, partly because of the experience American
troops have gained in two years of combat, and partly because of the buildup
of Iraqi Army units, with about 50,000 soldiers deployed, about 6,000 of
them in Baghdad."The enemy will not likely cease his efforts, despite the
foolhardiness of his venture," said General Chiarelli, a 54-year-old native
of Seattle. "But he will be defeated."
Postelection maneuvering over a transitional government to take Iraq through
the rest of the year on Friday showed new signs of heading for a
deadlock.Among the new elements was a demand from Kurdish leaders who
control a key bloc in the national assembly that any group wanting their
backing would first have to commit to declaring the oil-rich northern city
of Kirkuk to be part of Iraqi Kurdistan. The demand seemed likely to be
resisted by both the United Iraqi Alliance, the country's largest coalition
of Shiite parties, and by the Iraqi List, the group led by the interim prime
minister, Ayad Allawi, who has emerged as the alliance's main rival for
power.
Another new element was the wavering of a voting bloc of about 30 elected
alliance members who follow Ahmad Chalabi, a onetime Pentagon favorite who
declared himself a candidate for prime minister after the elections. But he
withdrew this week, throwing his support to Ibrahim al-Jaafari, an Islamist
who leads Dawa, one of the alliance's two dominant religious parties. Now,
Mr. Chalabi's aides say, secularists in his group, the Shiite Council, as
well as other backers who were placed on the alliance's election list by the
rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, are demanding that Mr. Chalabi renounce
his support for Mr. Jaafari and leave the alliance. If he does, he could
become a wild card in the power struggle, and potentially even an ally for
Dr. Allawi, a longtime rival.
The bomb attack on the American soldiers came on a day that caught the war's
crosscurrents as it approaches the end of its second year. The five dead
soldiers made it one of the worst 24-hour periods in weeks for the American
command.
Among the victims in other attacks were two women and a child killed by a
bomb that exploded just after an American military convoy passed them in
Baiji, 130 miles north of Baghdad. A driver for an American-backed
television station in Baghdad was shot as he drove a reporter through an
area of intense insurgent activity about 50 miles south of Baghdad.
Two members of the Iraqi security forces were killed: one a soldier who was
shot in Nibai, about 40 miles north of Baghdad, and the other a policeman
who was returning to his home in Baquba, also about 40 miles north of the
capital. And three Iraqis in an outer district of Baghdad died when
insurgents set off a bomb, then fired into onlookers.
But the loss was accompanied by what Iraq's interim government said was a
breakthrough in the hunt for the terrorist group led by Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian named by Osama bin Laden late last year as Al
Qaeda's chief representative in Iraq. An announcement said American and
Iraqi forces had seized two aides of Mr. Zarqawi last Sunday during a raid
in Anah, a town on the Euphrates River about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad,
close to the Syrian border. Anah lies on a stretch of the river where the
First Marine Division began an offensive on Sunday that it described as
aimed at "criminals and terrorists who have attempted to destabilize Anbar
Province."
The two aides were identified as Abu Qutaybah, who is said to have been
responsible for determining "who, when and how terrorist network leaders
would meet" with Mr. Zarqawi, and Abu Uthman, who the announcement said had
"occasionally acted" as Mr. Zarqawi's driver.
The government also said Iraqi soldiers had captured the leader of a
Qaeda-linked cell responsible for a string of beheadings across Iraq. In a
statement released late on Thursday, it said that the man, whom it
identified as Muhammad Najam Ibrahim, had been seized in Baquba. It gave no
date for the arrest, and no details of the killings that the man was alleged
to have carried out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/international/middleeast/
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the
country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag
the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
--
Up until the German defeat at Stalingrad in late 1942, Adolf Hitler remained
the best thing that had ever happened to the German financial elite from a
strictly business point of view.
"The Splendid Blond Beast", Christopher Simpson
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26 Feb 2005 12:20:46 PM |
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Black Elk wrote:
February 26, 2005
5 G.I.'s Killed and 9 Injured Across Iraq in 24 Hours
By JOHN F. BURNS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 - The United States military command on Friday
announced the deaths of five American soldiers and the wounding of at least
nine others. The day's biggest attack, a roadside bomb blast in a town
outside Baghdad, struck a patrol on what was to be one of the last combat
missions for some members of the First Cavalry Division before they returned
home.
What is the significance of this article?
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Steven D. Litvintchouk
Email:
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| User: "Black Elk" |
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26 Feb 2005 01:27:48 PM |
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"Steven L." <sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:263Ud.7723$Ba3.3570@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
Black Elk wrote:
February 26, 2005
5 G.I.'s Killed and 9 Injured Across Iraq in 24 Hours
By JOHN F. BURNS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 - The United States military command on Friday
announced the deaths of five American soldiers and the wounding of at
least nine others. The day's biggest attack, a roadside bomb blast in a
town outside Baghdad, struck a patrol on what was to be one of the last
combat missions for some members of the First Cavalry Division before
they returned home.
What is the significance of this article?
The fact that U.S. soldiers are fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq and the
"liberal" U.S. press, especially the television media, is AWOL when they are
killed and wounded. Yet they are more than happy to push Bush's ever
changing propaganda as to why Iraq "needed" to be invaded.
--
They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Iraq had essentially destroyed its illicit weapons
capability within months after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, and its
capacity to produce such weapons had eroded even further by the time of the
American invasion in 2003, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a
report made public today.
http://tinyurl.com/3p3q9
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/international/middleeast/0
6CND-INTE.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=)
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the
country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag
the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
--
Up until the German defeat at Stalingrad in late 1942, Adolf Hitler remained
the best thing that had ever happened to the German financial elite from a
strictly business point of view.
"The Splendid Blond Beast", Christopher Simpson
--
Up until the German defeat at Stalingrad in late 1942, Adolf Hitler remained
the best thing that had ever happened to the German financial elite from a
strictly business point of view.
"The Splendid Blond Beast", Christopher Simpson
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26 Feb 2005 04:39:41 PM |
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Black Elk wrote:
"Steven L." < > wrote in message
news:263Ud.7723$Ba3.3570@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
Black Elk wrote:
February 26, 2005
5 G.I.'s Killed and 9 Injured Across Iraq in 24 Hours
By JOHN F. BURNS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 - The United States military command on Friday
announced the deaths of five American soldiers and the wounding of at
least nine others. The day's biggest attack, a roadside bomb blast in a
town outside Baghdad, struck a patrol on what was to be one of the last
combat missions for some members of the First Cavalry Division before
they returned home.
What is the significance of this article?
The fact that U.S. soldiers are fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq and the
"liberal" U.S. press, especially the television media, is AWOL when they are
killed and wounded.
So now you're claiming that Fox News (cf. your subject line) is liberal????
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Steven D. Litvintchouk
Email:
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26 Feb 2005 03:53:22 PM |
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Black Elk wrote:
"Steven L." <sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:263Ud.7723$Ba3.3570@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
What is the significance of this article?
The fact that U.S. soldiers are fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq and the
"liberal" U.S. press, especially the television media, is AWOL when they are
killed and wounded. Yet they are more than happy to push Bush's ever
changing propaganda as to why Iraq "needed" to be invaded.
I think war against the Serbs was much less necessary. I guess we will
both remain troubled. I also think the War on Poverty and the War on
Drugs were unnecessary. Indeed there are lots of things the government
does that are unnecessary and harmful.
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26 Feb 2005 04:10:49 PM |
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"Werner Hetzner" <whetzner@mac.com> wrote in message
news:4220EFD2.60302@mac.com...
Black Elk wrote:
"Steven L." <sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:263Ud.7723$Ba3.3570@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
What is the significance of this article?
The fact that U.S. soldiers are fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq and
the "liberal" U.S. press, especially the television media, is AWOL when
they are killed and wounded. Yet they are more than happy to push Bush's
ever changing propaganda as to why Iraq "needed" to be invaded.
I think war against the Serbs was much less necessary. I guess we will
both remain troubled. I also think the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs
were unnecessary. Indeed there are lots of things the government does
that are unnecessary and harmful.
Yugoslavia/Serbia had already proved their homicidal policies against
Bosnia, Croatia and Slovakia. Clinton was right in stopping their genocide
in Kosovo.
Bush lied to the world about Iraq's WMD, ties to international terrorism,
ties to 911and killed/wounded thousands upon thousands of innocent people
based on these lies.
--
They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
--
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the
country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag
the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
--
Up until the German defeat at Stalingrad in late 1942, Adolf Hitler remained
the best thing that had ever happened to the German financial elite from a
strictly business point of view.
"The Splendid Blond Beast", Christopher Simpson
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27 Feb 2005 07:02:52 AM |
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"Black Elk" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote in
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Bush lied to the world about Iraq's WMD, ties to international
terrorism, ties to 911and killed/wounded thousands upon thousands of
innocent people based on these lies.
Utter horseshit.
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| User: "Werner Hetzner" |
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26 Feb 2005 07:55:15 PM |
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Black Elk wrote:
"Werner Hetzner" <whetzner@mac.com> wrote in message
news:4220EFD2.60302@mac.com...
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I think war against the Serbs was much less necessary. I guess we will
both remain troubled. I also think the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs
were unnecessary. Indeed there are lots of things the government does
that are unnecessary and harmful.
Yugoslavia/Serbia had already proved their homicidal policies against
Bosnia, Croatia and Slovakia. Clinton was right in stopping their genocide
in Kosovo.
Bush lied to the world about Iraq's WMD, ties to international terrorism,
ties to 911and killed/wounded thousands upon thousands of innocent people
based on these lies.
Well now, doesn't all depend on point of view?
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| User: "dapra" |
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26 Feb 2005 09:04:34 PM |
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Werner Hetzner wrote:
Black Elk wrote:
"Werner Hetzner" <whetzner@mac.com> wrote in message
news:4220EFD2.60302@mac.com...
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I think war against the Serbs was much less necessary. I guess we
will both remain troubled. I also think the War on Poverty and the
War on Drugs were unnecessary. Indeed there are lots of things the
government does that are unnecessary and harmful.
Yugoslavia/Serbia had already proved their homicidal policies against
Bosnia, Croatia and Slovakia. Clinton was right in stopping their
genocide in Kosovo.
Bush lied to the world about Iraq's WMD, ties to international
terrorism, ties to 911and killed/wounded thousands upon thousands of
innocent people based on these lies.
Well now, doesn't all depend on point of view?
Aren't you going to far with your relativism? The earth is flat or not
"depend on point of view"?
There must be a limit how far a screw ball can go against scientific
observations. Or an other screw ball claims something what has proven to
be untrue and still claim he is not a liar or deceiver or an idiot.
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| User: "Werner Hetzner" |
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27 Feb 2005 11:28:50 AM |
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dapra wrote:
Werner Hetzner wrote:
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Well now, doesn't all depend on point of view?
Aren't you going to far with your relativism? The earth is flat or not
"depend on point of view"?
There must be a limit how far a screw ball can go against scientific
observations. Or an other screw ball claims something what has proven
to be untrue and still claim he is not a liar or deceiver or an idiot.
Ask clinton. He'll tell you everything depends of what the meaning of
the word is is. perhaps he will explain how a civil war can be redifined
as ethnic cleansing or how the Serbs threatened the US. Then pick the
argument you like but remember that someone else will disagree. My guess
is the Serbs disagree. Unfortunately they lost, so they have little say
in the matter. If they had won, clinton would be sitting in jail in
Holland.
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26 Feb 2005 10:30:47 AM |
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In article <1109433408.54acda514e2d21a40ee810a8f95b1bc8@teranews>,
"Black Elk" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
February 26, 2005
5 G.I.'s Killed and 9 Injured Across Iraq in 24 Hours
By JOHN F. BURNS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 - The United States military command on Friday
announced the deaths of five American soldiers and the wounding of at least
nine others. The day's biggest attack, a roadside bomb blast in a town
outside Baghdad, struck a patrol on what was to be one of the last combat
missions for some members of the First Cavalry Division before they returned
home.
(snip)
and this just in;
Special Report. The GOP's many Talons
Did White House S&M ring order special videos from Abu Ghraib?
Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer
February 23, 2005-There are interesting connections between the White
House credentialed Talon News Service, owned by Houston-based GOP
activist Bobby Eberle, Jr., and two other "Talon" entities. One is
investment and management company Talon LLC of Detroit, co-founded by
Michael T. Timmis, a major contributor to conservative Republican
causes. Talon Equity Partners LLC is an adjunct of Talon LLC. The other
GOP-connected "Talon" firm is Talon LLC of Houston, a "special purpose
entity" established by the now defunct GOP bankroller, Enron.
In April 2000, Enron and LJM2, a co-investment entity headed by Enron
Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, set up Talon LLC. Fastow was
later indicted and found guilty of multiple counts of fraud. His boss
at Enron, CEO Ken Lay, a close friend of and contributor to George W.
Bush, was also indicted and is awaiting trial. The Talon entity
experienced a 370 percent annualized return on an original investment
of preferred Enron stock and made $41 million for LJM2. Investigators
in Houston are still trying to determine what happened to Enron's
original profits before its stock tanked. There are suspicions that
much of the money ended up in well protected and hidden Bush family and
GOP coffers.
Timmis is a major contributor to The Fellowship Foundation, a powerful
"Christian" fundamentalist operation headquartered in Arlington,
Virginia. The Fellowship has interlocking relationships with the
Leadership Institute, also of Arlington, Virginia, where Talon White
House correspondent "Jeff Gannon," a.k.a. James Dale Guckert, took a
two-day course at the institute's Broadcast School of Journalism. The
Leadership Institute, headed by Virginia Republican official Morton
Blackwell, counts such right-wing members of Congress as Tom DeLay,
Frank Wolf, Sam Brownback, John Ensign, Todd Tiahrt, Charles Grassley,
James Inhofe, Zach Wamp, and Joseph Pitts as members of its
"bi-partisan" congressional Board of Advisors. The above Republican
members of Congress are also core members of The Fellowship. Gannon has
been linked to Fellowship members who are active in two northern
Virginia churches heavily influenced by the Fellowship: Little Falls
Presbyterian Church in Arlington and McLean Bible Church in nearby
McLean. Gannon is also linked to Rev. Rob Schenk, the founder of
Washington's National Community Church, a Pentecostal congregation that
counts John and Janet Ashcroft as members. It currently meets in a
movie theater at Union Station in Washington, DC.
The Fellowship is financially backed by companies with lucrative
defense contracts with the Pentagon, many of which are based in
northern Virginia. Some of these companies are involved with prisoner
detention contracts in Iraq, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
The discovery of Gannon's involvement with military-oriented gay
pornographic sites having sado-masochistic overtones, including
urination, has a number of observers looking for a connection with the
documented cases of prisoner sexual abuse by U.S. military members and
contractors. That abuse included male-on-male rape, male-on-female
rape, the sodomizing by U.S. and allied military personnel of young
male and teen prisoners with such implements as glow sticks and broom
handles, forcing naked male prisoners to form human pyramids, guards
urinating on prisoners, forcing prisoners to smear themselves with
feces, and subjecting prisoners to forced masturbation.
The presence of cameras in prison facilities had many Washington
insiders wondering if the gay S&M prostitution ring centered in the
White House had access to pornographic videos from torture centers such
as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
A classified Defense Department's report on the prisoner abuse
contained several references to sexual and S&M-oriented behavior by
U.S. guards:
a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their
naked feet;
b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit
positions for photographing;
d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them
naked for several days at a time;
e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear;
f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while
being photographed and videotaped;
g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on
them;
h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his
head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate
electric torture;
i. (S) Writing "I am a Rapest" [sic] on the leg of a detainee alleged
to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then
photographing him naked;
j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and
having a female Soldier pose for a picture;
k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;
1. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and
frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely
injuring a detainee;
m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.
a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on
detainees;
b. (U) Threatening detainees with a loaded 9mm pistol;
c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees;
d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;
e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape;
f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a
detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his
cell;
g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom
stick.
h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees
with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
One of the Defense Department contractors cited in the Abu Ghraib
scandal was Titan of San Diego. It has subsequently been discovered
that GOPUSA.com, the parent company of Talon News Service, had Steven
Findlay on its board of directors. Findlay was the founder of a
Marshall, Texas-based defense contractor called Titan Dynamics. In
2002, Allied Defense Group bought Titan Dynamics. In 2002, federal
investigators stepped up their ongoing investigation of Titan of San
Diego for engaging in fraud on software contracts at Hanscom Air Force
Base in Massachusetts. Titan's contract partner, Dynamics Research,
also came under investigation. Investigators used the term "Titan
Dynamics" in describing their investigation at Hanscom.
Another firm tied to contract fraud was Affiliated Computer Systems
(ACS) of Dallas, Texas, a company with close ties to Bush and the GOP.
In 1992, ACS's chairman Darwin Deason settled with the government on
charges relating to the transfer of $61 million of computers and other
assets from two Texas savings and loans, First Texas Savings and
Gibraltar, just prior to the thrifts' failure. In 2002, 64 percent of
ACS's political contributions went to Republicans.
A May 2004 email to senior officials of the FBI, labeled "On Scene
Commander-Baghdad," indicated that much of the abusive tactics used
at Abu Ghraib had been authorized by President Bush. The email stated
Bush authorized sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of
military dogs, and 'sensory deprivation through the use of hoods,
etc.'"
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist,
author, and columnist. He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Jaded
Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates" and wrote "Genocide & Covert
Operations in Africa: 1993-1999" (Mellen Press).
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you can't fool all of the people , all of the time.
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