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Unit Says It Gave Earlier Warning of Abuse in IraqBy ANDREA ELLIOTT RANKFURT, June 13 — Beginning in November, a small unit of interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison began reporting allegations of prisoner abuse, including the beatings of five blindfolded Iraqi generals, in internal documents sent to senior officers, according to interviews with military personnel who worked in the prison.The disclosure of the documents raises new questions about whether senior officers in Iraq were alerted about serious abuses at the prison before January. Top military officials have said they only learned about abuses then, after a soldier came forward with...

Interrogation abuses were 'approved at highest levels' New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House. The Telegraph understands that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating senior Pentagon civilians in the Abu Ghraib scandal have been passed to an American television network, which is preparing to make them public shortly. According to lawyers familiar with the Red Cross reports, they will contradict previous testimony by senior Pentagon officials who have claimed that...

Mirror pays price for fake pictures Owen Gibson, chief reporter Friday June 11, 2004 Mirror: sliding further away from 2 million barrier The scandal over the fake Iraq torture pictures appears to have cost the Daily Mirror more sales, with the paper's average daily circulation falling by a further 40,000 in the past month, according to the latest ABC figures. The search continues for a new Mirror editor following the sacking of Piers Morgan at the end of the month, but the challenge to get the newspaper's circulation back above the psychologically important 2 million barrier - is getting more...

    Rumsfeld May Widen Scope of Iraq Abuse ProbeThu Jun 10, 2004 02:13 PM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may widen the investigation into abuses of Iraqi prisoners to include top military ranks, and has also ordered that he be told about the death of any prisoner in U.S. military custody, officials said on Thursday. Under past practice, some military prison deaths were not even reported to the army medical examiner's office. Rumsfeld is also considering a request made this week by Central Command head Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S....

Two 19-year-old Marines pleaded guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding in early April, months after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse, military officials said. Pfc. Andrew J. Sting, of Bradner, Ohio, and Pfc. Jeremiah J. Trefney entered their pleas at a May 14 court-martial in Iraq, according to a statement by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. Lt. Nathan Braden, a Marine spokesman at Camp Pendleton, Calif., released the statement Thursday. Sting and Trefney were infantrymen with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and attached to the 1st Marine Division...

<p>The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was "a moment of truth" for the United States as severe as the September 11 terrorist attacks, billionaire financier George Soros told a gathering of liberal activists yesterday.</p> <p>"The picture of torture in Saddam's prison was a moment of truth for us," Mr. Soros said. "I think that those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself. Not quite with the same force, because in the terrorist attack, we were the victims. In the pictures, we were the perpetrators and others were the victims."</p>

A rising chorus of officers in each of the services is calling for commanders up and down the military chain to be held accountable for the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses in Iraq, officials tell Inside the Pentagon. Many are concerned the reputation of U.S. service members around the globe already has been deeply harmed by photos depicting physical abuse, sexual humiliation and the use of unmuzzled German shepherds to frighten detainees at the U.S.-run facility outside Baghdad. Some say the abuse scandal rivals the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam in terms of the long-term toll it may take on...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38774 Thursday, June 3, 2004 ELECTION 2004Soros: Abu Ghraib same as 9-11Bush 'converted us from victims into perpetrators' Posted: June 3, 20042:44 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com After an introduction by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, billionaire financier George Soros told left-wing activists at a Washington function today the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq is comparable to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. George Soros "The picture of torture in Saddam's prison was a moment of truth for us,"...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Because of the tortures and murders at the Abu Ghraib prison, Donald Rumsfeld must resign. He must leave his position as U.S. Secretary of Defense for the good of his boss, his war, his department and his country. And if he does not, Bush must fire him, which would be a rare demonstration for this administration of the rule that officials are responsible for their wrong actions. Mr. President: there comes a time when blind loyalty, however pigheaded, comes to a fault. That time is now. Sticking by your dad's friends is high virtue, but when this...

We have reached a turning-point in international politics as well as in Iraq. President George W. Bush is widely seen to have gambled on Iraq and lost. The impact of that loss goes well beyond Iraq. The US has not been defeated in battle and is unlikely to be so but it can no longer impose its will on Iraq because it lacks the moral authority to do so. excerpt: This was not inevitable. The arrogance and hubris with which the Bush administration embarked on this war in the first place used up much moral capital. excerpt: The alienation of...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said on Monday he had been shocked by U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. "America generally we consider a champion of liberty, justice -- these things -- so then for something such as this to happen, we regard as shocking," said the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. The aging monk is on a week-long visit to Britain, drawing large crowds to his lectures, but he will not meet Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said Tibetans had much experience of abuse at the hands of their...

I was struck by how shocked members of the senate were upon viewing additional pictures of the undisciplined, unprincipled freaks masquerading as members of our military at Abu Graib prison. Keep in mind, according to reports from the senators themselves, most of the additional pictures were of our soldiers having sex with each other — male soldiers having sex with female soldiers, that is. Senators such as Feinstein and Campbell expressed absolute shock at the pictures they saw. I’m shocked at how out-of-touch our senators seem to be when it comes to the nature of what happened at Abu Graib....

American POMsJohn L. PerryTuesday, May 18, 2004 No Geneva Convention protects American prisoners of media within their native land. Only their moral convictions, common sense, patriotic grit – and allergy to horse manure. What kind of ridiculous nonsense is that? It is neither. Examine the realities: The world is at war, not just this nation. Disastrously, most Americans have yet to catch on that the United States -– attacked by radical Islamists - is at war, let alone for their and Western Civilization’s very survival. This is the largest of all wars to date, and will likely be the...

# NEW YORK, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Documents obtained by Newsweek suggest that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's aides are trying hard to contain the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, even within the Pentagon. Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, who is in charge of setting policy on prisoners and detainees in occupied Iraq, has banned any discussion of the still-classified report on Abu Ghraib, written by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, which has circulated around the world, Newsweek reports in the current issue.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040530/NYSU003 ) Shortly after the Taguba report leaked in early May, Feith subordinates sent an "urgent" e-mail around the...

CHICAGO (AP) - It has been all but impossible to miss the widely circulated photos of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, which set off an all-out media blitz. And there are more images that have yet to be made public. But when is enough enough? A recent CBS News poll found that while 55 percent of respondents said the prison abuse scandal is "very serious" problem, 61 percent felt the media has spent too much time on coverage, compared with 49 percent who said the same shortly after the news broke in late April. Associated Press reporters in several regions...

WASHINGTON — Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib (search), investigative documents show.-- Snip --At the Marines' Camp Whitehorse (search), the guards were told to keep enemy prisoners of war — EPWs, in military jargon — standing for 50 minutes each hour for up to 10 hours. They would then be interrogated by "human exploitation teams," or HETs, comprising intelligence specialists. "The 50/10 technique was used to break down the EPWs and make it easier for the HET member to get information from them,"...

HEIDELBERG, Germany — Sgt. Samuel Provance said he wasn’t surprised when Lt. Col. James Norwood summoned him to Wiesbaden on Friday, less than a week after the sergeant spoke to ABC News about his experiences at the Abu Ghraib. Provance is the only military intelligence soldier who served at the prison to publicly speak about prisoner abuses there, despite orders from his command to keep quiet. Now, Norwood, his battalion commander, has flagged Provance from favorable actions and pulled his top-secret clearance. On May 16, the 30-year-old Williamsburg, Va., native told ABC News that fellow military intelligence agents casually discussed...

The war in Iraq may be the first war to be won or lost in cyberspace. In the battle for the hearts and minds of the Arab world, the deadliest weapons may, in the end, be images, and the digital photos and videos of abuse shot at Abu Ghraib may turn out to be America's undoing by friendly fire. Whether the videotaped decapitation of Nicholas Berg shown on Arab Web sites will ultimately help or hurt the U.S. war effort is not yet clear. In this new "theater of operations" as on more-traditional battlefields, however, things are not always what...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - Photographs and video of Iraqi prisoners abused by U.S. troops are the most shocking images seen since the days of Hitler, the Cuban government said on Friday. "Since the dark days of Hitler ... humanity has not observed images of such emotional impact," said a government statement issued at a summit of European and Latin American leaders. "Millions and millions of people have been horrified by the brutal sadism" reflected by photos and video from the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. The historical parallel drawn by Cuba came in a lengthy document which complained bitterly about...

JACKSON, Miss. -- "Interrogation is not a Sunday school meeting," U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said about the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. The Mississippi Republican said he has seen the photos and doesn't approve of what he terms "physical perversion" in the way Iraqi prisoners have been allegedly treated. But he said tactics like sleep depravation and other ways of scaring information out of detainees is needed, if it achieves the top priority -- saving American lives. Lott makes his comments in an interview with a Jackson television station. Asked specifically about a picture of a security dog close to...