Month May 2004

Lynndie England: I was ordered to ‘stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera,’ Ra’Shadd <Lynndie’s lawyer> said they were intelligence officers who took over command of the prison from military officers and preyed on the naivete of young…

Questions on the Nick Berg video Questions are growing about just how authentic the decapitation video is. Note: I took my copy of the file offline. 6400 people downloaded it on Monday 5/17, which is way too much bandwidth for me to…

To repeat To repeat what I posted last Thursday, since  this is still floating around out there, the photos of Iraqi women apparently being raped by soldiers were from a porno site, thankfully now closed, that specializes in such depraved…

Lawmakers see photos, run for sickness bags The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops went beyond the photos seen by most Americans, shaken lawmakers said Wednesday after viewing fresh pictures and video that they said depicted forced sex, brutality…

America’s military coup Donald Rumsfeld has a new war on his hands – the US officer corps has turned on the government. In an extraordinary editorial, the Army Times, which had not previously ventured into such controversy, declared that “the…