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Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Abunuran - 07-21-2004
July 21, 2004
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies
The Abu Ghraib investigation whitewash I reported on last week is intensifying as the Defense Department moves to squelch document production in response to Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests by public interest groups and members of the media.
The Project on Government Secrecy, headed by FOIA guru Steven Aftergood, reported today that:
PENTAGON "CONSOLIDATES" ABU GHRAIB DOCUMENT REQUESTS
Freedom of Information Act requests that were sent to the Pentagon for additional documentation and imagery concerning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners held in U.S. custody in Iraq (SN, 05/12/04) were forwarded by the Pentagon to U.S. Central Command for processing.
But now U.S. Central Command is sending them back to the Pentagon.
"We have been instructed to refer all requests for information referring to detainee abuse to the Department of Defense [Pentagon FOIA office]," a CENTCOM FOIA officer wrote.
"In order to provide you with as much information as possible, all detainee requests are now being consolidated and will be answered by [the Pentagon]."
Meanwhile, Congressional efforts to gain access to documents on the Abu Ghraib case and related issues have been frustrated.
"Time and again attempts by this House to acquire documents related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal have been defeated, largely on party line votes," said Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) on July 19, citing several initiatives that had been blocked by the Republican majority.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. New Yorker columnist Seymour M. Hersh, who has already broken several important stories on the invasion of Iraq and the "War on Terror," reportedly has new information that is even more disturbing than his May 2004 article, The Gray Zone.
The Independent reported on July 16, 2004, that videotapes exist of US soldiers sodomizing Iraqi boys. The Independent quotes Mr. Hersh, at a speaking engagement before a San Francisco ACLU meeting, as saying: "The boys were sodomised with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war."
The horrifying story of Abu Ghraib is going to get worse. If our professional US Army officer corps continues to "play ostrich," or allows itself to be further politicized as a means of escaping or minimizing the consequences of this grave leadership failure, the damage to the US Army will be lasting and to the core. The "Nuremberg defense" and careerist political moves just won't cut it. Brave officers who honor their oath of office, their commission and the Constitution they swore to defend must inititiate the desperately needed correction from within the US Army, now. Slow-walking, stonewalling or waiting for civilian politicians to "provide guidance" is not an acceptable or honorable course of action.
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/opoint/a...ves/000415.html
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Local - 07-21-2004
However there is/was no such thing as the Saddam Freedom of Information ACT. In fact Freedom and Islam seem to be like ‘fire & ice’.
Just a thought.
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Dan - 07-21-2004
What?
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Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Local - 07-21-2004
If you want to use our laws against us at least have the common sense to understand how hypocritical you are.
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - lifutushi - 07-22-2004
Quote:In fact Freedom and Islam seem to be like ‘fire & ice’.
kindly i'm inviting you to read more on Islam....
right now i'm just ssuming that you know very little about Islam.... so i won't blame you for saying that.. but please.... read more.....
i think i've this many times before:
SADDAM does not represent ISLAM.....
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Yusuf. - 07-24-2004
Quote:
kindly i'm inviting you to read more on Islam....
right now i'm just ssuming that you know very little about Islam.... so i won't blame you for saying that.. but please.... read more.....
i think i've this many times before:
SADDAM does not represent ISLAM.....
Assalamu alaikum,
this is the standard method the kuffar use to cover their own crimes. rather than discuss the topic at hand, they attempt to deflect attention away by making ignorant claims about Islam.
Allah Hafiz
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Abunuran - 07-24-2004
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kindly i'm inviting you to read more on Islam....
right now i'm just ssuming that you know very little about Islam.... so i won't blame you for saying that.. but please.... read more.....
i think i've this many times before:
SADDAM does not represent ISLAM.....
Assalamu alaikum,
this is the standard method the kuffar use to cover their own crimes. rather than discuss the topic at hand, they attempt to deflect attention away by making ignorant claims about Islam.
Allah Hafiz
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Well said brother.
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - abeer - 07-24-2004
it seems like violence and abuse both spread nowadays widely and wildly in the americans - not all of them of course- it's very noticable .
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even KFC -kentucky fried chicken- are abusing and torturing their chickens
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((<b>The Associated Press, PETA says its investigator also obtained eyewitness testimony about employees "ripping birds' beaks off, spray painting their faces, twisting their heads off, spitting tobacco into their mouths and eyes, and breaking them in half — all while the birds are still alive.</b>"))
so stay away from any of the american food names
read all about it on 'usa today' and please watch the video
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/f...-chickens_x.htm
and
www.peta.org
it reminded me of abu-ghareeb
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - Dan - 07-24-2004
Quote: If you want to use our laws against us at least have the common sense to understand how hypocritical you are.
Bismillah
Cangratulations on being very vague. One-liners are always condusive to an open dialogue.
Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies - lifutushi - 07-26-2004
Quote:If you want to use our laws against us at least have the common sense to understand how hypocritical you are.
then when we use our sharia law, you call it barbaric....
huhuhu.... how much did you know about sharia?