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What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 249<br />

24.09.<strong>2006</strong> Wash Post 25 The contracts call <strong>for</strong> the companies to provide outside instructors who would<br />

train "selected enlisted soldiers in the skills and knowledge required to<br />

per<strong>for</strong>m . . . tactical human intelligence collection," said a government notice -<br />

that's what they're calling torture these days: Tactical human intelligence<br />

collection<br />

27.09.<strong>2006</strong> X 25 It wasn't Adolph Hitler who paid the price <strong>for</strong> WW II and his illegal war of<br />

aggression, it was the German people. We simply cannot torture and murder<br />

people on a wholesale basis without paying the butcher's bill<br />

28.09.<strong>2006</strong> Asian Times 25 while the emptying of Abu Ghraib made the news everywhere, the filling of<br />

Camp Cropper made no news at all. And yet it turns out that Camp Cropper ..<br />

has now become a US$60 million "state-of-the-art" prison. The upgrade, on<br />

the drawing boards since 2004, was just completed and hardly a word has<br />

been written about it<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> CNS 25 ACLU accused US gov. past and present of honing torture tactics in<br />

American prisons be<strong>for</strong>e they were allegedly implemented in terrorist<br />

detention centers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> Berlingske 25 Venstre: Et skridt i den rigtige retning ... Socialdemokraterne og Amnesty<br />

International mener derimod, at Bush-regeringen direkte undergraver<br />

menneskerettighederne<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> NY Times 25 Senate Approves Broad New Rules to Try Detainees - The vote was 65 to 34<br />

... broaden the definition of enemy combatants beyond the traditional<br />

definition used in wartime, to include noncitizens living legally in the US as<br />

well as those in <strong>for</strong>eign countries and anyone determined to be an enemy<br />

combatant under criteria defined by the president or secretary of defense<br />

{legalized when you ask Bush et al. about 9/11}<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> Telepolis 25 Das Weiße Haus konnte sich mit dem neuen Gesetz Military Commissions Act of<br />

<strong>2006</strong>, das den Umgang mit verdächtigen Terroristen und die Einsetzung von<br />

Militärgerichten regelt, sowohl im Repräsentantenhaus als auch im Senat<br />

durchsetzen ... Auffällig ist jedoch, wie ruhig sich die EU und die eur. Reg. verhalten,<br />

wenn der große Bruder Menschenrechte und int. Abkommen verletzt<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> Uruknet 25 This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> San Francisco<br />

Chronicle<br />

25 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's antiterrorism<br />

tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges<br />

should not substitute their personal views <strong>for</strong> the president's judgments in<br />

wartime - a small memo to Attorney General Gonzales: only Congress can<br />

declare war: Congress did not do so with either Afghanistan or Iraq<br />

29.09.<strong>2006</strong> Scoop.nz 25 Pinochet Also Thought He Could "Legalize" Torture<br />

30.09.<strong>2006</strong> Guardian 25 The Bush adm. faced a raft of legal challenges to a sweeping new regime <strong>for</strong><br />

Guantánamo that would deny court oversight to detainees in the war on<br />

01.10.<strong>2006</strong> San Francisco<br />

Chronicle<br />

terror, and would bar prosecution of US personnel <strong>for</strong> war crimes<br />

25 the law .. allows the president to identify enemies, imprison them indefinitely<br />

and interrogate them -- albeit with a ban on the harshest treatment -- beyond<br />

the reach of the full court reviews traditionally af<strong>for</strong>ded criminal defendants<br />

and ordinary prisoners<br />

02.10.<strong>2006</strong> Prison Planet 25 Under this bill, the president or his designee can simply decide that someone poses a<br />

threat, call them an unlawful enemy combatant, and lock them away. Yes, they are entitled<br />

to a determination by the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of whether they in fact meet<br />

the definition of unlawful enemy combatant. But the law doesn't impose a time limit. The<br />

government could simply postpone that hearing indefinitely, and the detainee would have<br />

the status of "awaiting such determination," and not be given access to federal court<br />

02.10.<strong>2006</strong> Antiwar 25 The compromise legislation authorizes the president to seize American<br />

citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the US. And once<br />

thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any<br />

06.10.<strong>2006</strong> In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

Clearing House<br />

other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights<br />

25 Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does<br />

such barbaric abuse inside US jails explain the horrors .. in Iraq?<br />

06.10.<strong>2006</strong> BAZ 25 Menschenrechtsorganisation zufolge hat es möglicherweise auch auf<br />

deutschem Boden ein geheimes Gefängnis der CIA gegeben<br />

07.10.<strong>2006</strong> Raw Story 25 Guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described<br />

it as common practice, a Marine sergeant said in a sworn statement<br />

08.10.<strong>2006</strong> Seattle Times 25 The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's<br />

driver to the US Supreme Court — and won — has been passed over <strong>for</strong><br />

promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military

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