Day May 10, 2004

A hero retires from public service Nelson Mandela gives farewell speech to parliament As he stepped down from the platform for the very last time, the assembly chamber erupted into applause, chanting and singing.

More prisons where torture happened? Reports are surfacing now of similar treatment at another U.S. detention center in Iraq called Camp Bucca. According to these reports, Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bucca were beaten, humiliated, hogtied, and had scorpions placed on…

Army Times says Rumsfeld should resign The independent Army Times newspaper, read widely in the U.S. military, on Monday suggested Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon civilian and military leaders should be removed over the Iraq prisoner abuse…

Red Cross report describes abuse in Iraq The Red Cross has made a point, these past few days, of saying the abuse and torture was NOT isolated because it was “too widespread” for that. A Red Cross report disclosed Monday…

The worst is yet to come Mr. Rumsfeld told the Senate panel that photos and videos yet to be released, apparently depicting rape, a severe beating, and in one case a smiling soldier posing with a dead body, were more…