A series of photographs obtained exclusively by NBC News depicts what sources said was the aggressive interrogation of three naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the detention facility outside Baghdad that is at the center of the scandal over U.S. mistreatment of Iraqi detainees.
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In one of the photos, a U.S. soldier can be seen pressing [...]

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Less than six months from election day, polls suggest that Mr Kerry is leading the President in 12 of the 16 so-called swing states. In some states the lead is slight, but in places such as New Hampshire, which Mr Bush won in 2000, Mr Kerry has a lead of almost 10 per cent.
…Though polls [...]

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The special election to fill South Dakota’s lone Congressional seat turned negative Sunday with fewer than 10 days to go before the June 1 polling date. At a Sioux Falls rally for Democrat Stephanie Herseth, Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) appeared alongside the candidate and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and touched off a firestorm with his [...]

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004; Page A01
A U.S. Army general dispatched by senior Pentagon officials to bolster the collection of intelligence from prisoners in Iraq last fall inspired and promoted the use of guard dogs there to frighten the Iraqis, according to sworn testimony by the top U.S. intelligence officer at the Abu Ghraib prison.
According to [...]

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BAGHDAD, May 26 (Reuters) - Besides the scandal of abused prisoners, there is another, more pervasive problem Iraqis say they suffer daily at the hands of U.S. troops — theft of money and other property during aggressive American raids.
Over the past 14 months of occupation, U.S. forces have carried out literally thousands of raids on [...]

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LONDON (AFP) - The US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites), far from countering terrorism, has helped revitalise the Al-Qaeda terror network, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank warned.
The London-based body said in its annual Strategic Survey 2003/2004 that the deadly train bombings in Madrid in March, the worst terror strike in [...]

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You say Gareb
I say Garob
Let’s call the whole thing off…

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Malaysian terror suspects were threatened that they would be handed over to the US authorities at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre where they would face ’severe torture, a Human Rights Watch report says.
The 57-page report details widespread abuse and humiliation of suspects being held without trial under national security laws in Malaysia. Malaysia is a [...]

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“There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it’s not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It’s more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) - At least 2,000 pages might have been missing from the copy of the Army report on soldiers’ abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners that was delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The 6,000-page report, compiled by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, formed the basis for hearings this month into the allegations. Taguba found “numerous [...]

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Rumsfeld bans camera phones
From correspondents in London
May 23, 2004
MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported today.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers [...]

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RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television [...]

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Luke Harding in Baghdad
Monday May 24, 2004
The Guardian
The first Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly’s family knew of his death was when his battered corpse turned up at Baghdad’s morgue. Attached to the zipped-up black US body bag was a laconic note.
The US military claimed in the note that Dr Izmerly, a distinguished chemistry professor arrested after US [...]

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The Highest ranking US officer in Iraq was present at “interrogations and aware of the abuse, along with other senior military staff. This is from a Captain stationed at the prison who is willing to testify that officers told him prisoner abuse was “the right thing to do”…{{link http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48229-2004May22.html MORE}}

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