IN DEPTH: UK forces taught torture methods
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/may/08/iraq.iraq
The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources.
The techniques devised in the system, called R2I - resistance to interrogation - match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad. One former British special forces officer who returned last week from Iraq, said: "There is a reservoir of knowledge about these interrogation techniques which is retained by former special forces soldiers who are being rehired as private contractors in Iraq. Contractors are bringing in their old friends". Using sexual jibes and degradation, along with stripping naked, is one of the methods taught on both sides of the Atlantic under the slogan "prolong the shock of capture", he said. The full battery of methods includes hooding, sleep deprivation, time disorientation and depriving prisoners not only of dignity, but of fundamental human needs, such as warmth, water and food. WSWS: Soldiers report British torture of Iraqi civilians. ICC: A short history of British torture. Daily News: British Torture Scandal Photos Surface. Kennedy's Rum: Britain’s role in torture.
PermalinkExxon's influence and information wars continue today, building on lessons they learned from Valdez disaster
Link: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/644
One reason the Exxon Valdez story is still important 20 years later is that the disaster itself could easily happen again. However, another reason for the ongoing relevance of the lessons learned in Prince William Sound over the past two decades is that Exxon can convince the media and politicians that black is white. They did in Alaska, and they continue to do so all over the world.
U.S. Energy Department Cannot Account for Nuclear Materials at 15 Locations
Link: http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20090224_7895.php
A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records.
Barak Says Israel will ‘Stop at Nothing’ to Deny Iran Nukes
Link: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130150
“Time is running out fast and oozing between our fingers,” Barak said. “Robust and resolute sanctions against the Iranian regime are needed,” Barak said. “If these do not succeed in blocking the development, the necessary matters must be considered,” he added. This is what a psychopath, war criminal & mass murderer sounds like...Barak's recent warning is barely less violent than the death & destruction he has visited upon the Palestinian people. Even more horrifying crimes now are being planned. -May this guy rot in Hell! PressTV: Poll: Israel threatens Mideast stability.
Yes we are raging - against a Government that spies on its citizens while ignoring the crimes of greedy bankers
Today one of Britain's most senior police officers with responsibility for public order raises the spectre of a 'summer of rage', with victims of the increasingly bitter recession taking to the streets in possibly violent protest.
UK: Jack Straw blocks release of cabinet minutes on Iraq
Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/stra-f26.shtml
The UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed a ruling made under the Freedom of Information Act instructing the government to release the minutes of two key cabinet meetings on March 13 and 17, 2003, when the decision to go to war against Iraq was discussed.
Sniping at the elderly in Khoza’a - Video
Link: http://www.uruknet.de:80/?s1=1&p=52185&s2=27
For 2 months, Walid Abu Arjela and his family haven’t dared to return to their land in Am Almad of Khoza’a village, east of Khan Younis, in the lethal Israeli-imposed "buffer zone". The land in question, 550 m from the Green Line border, used to be productive agricultural land, as with most of the land now confiscated by the Israeli military occupation of Gaza and the imposition of a "no-go zone" on the Palestinian side of the Green Line. And as with the fertile land of the "buffer zone" from south to north, the land was heavily worked and produced vegetables, grains and fruits for much of the Gaza Strip’s residents and even, before the siege, for export.
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