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  • Editor sacked over 'hoax' photos

    05/14/2004 6:16:50 PM PDT · by JusticeTalion · 16 replies · 427+ views
    BBC News World Edition ^ | 05/14/04 | BBC News
    Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. In a statement the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and that it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue. The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) said the Mirror had endangered British troops by running the pictures. Roger Goodman, of the QLR, said the regiment now felt "vindicated". Mr Goodman added: "It is just a great pity it has taken so long... and that so much damage has been done in the meantime." At...
  • "Out on a limb" CARTOON of Joe Lieberman, editorial on Rumsfeld in WallStreetJournal today.

    05/14/2004 3:06:53 PM PDT · by IPWGOP · 28 replies · 253+ views
    www.iowapresidentialwatch.com ^ | 5/14/2004 | IPWGOP
    Joe Lieberman goes out on a limb today in his editorial in the Wall Street Journal, saying Rumsfeld should stay as Secretary of Defense. And that's quite a feat for a Democrat, although Lieberman has taken heat for months over his 'un-Dem' position regarding the War in Iraq & the War on Terror. Today's editorial will no doubt cause some Dems to holler even louder...
  • No Excuses Lynndie England’s story doesn’t gel.

    05/14/2004 1:26:56 PM PDT · by txradioguy · 81 replies · 646+ views
    NationalReview.com ^ | 14 May 2004 | W. Thomas Smith Jr.
    Private First Class Lynndie England's contention that she was ordered to abuse Iraqi detainees, thus justifying her actions, simply won't wash. England and some of her fellow Army Reserve comrades are facing court martial for mistreating captured Iraqi soldiers at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison compound where Saddam Hussein's henchmen once mercilessly tortured and killed inmates. Jessica Klinestiver, England's sister has stated that she is "outraged" because undue blame has been heaped upon England. "That's not like my sister to do anything like that at all," she said. But the images tell a different story. Perhaps England was ordered to...
  • I Got'cher Apology, Right Here

    05/14/2004 11:57:03 AM PDT · by CovenBuster · 9 replies · 129+ views
    JD's Bunker ^ | J. D. Pendry
    I Got'cher Apology, Right Here J. D. PendryIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. - from The Man Upstairs, P. G. Wodehouse, 1914 I had a great week. My bride and I spent our 31st wedding anniversary at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Thanks to those of you that sent your condolences to my wife. We were unplugged for a week. No computers, no phones, no news and no concerns. The toughest decision we made all week was if we...
  • Information Warfare 101

    05/14/2004 9:11:38 AM PDT · by JusticeTalion · 44+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | 05/14/04 | Douglas Hanson
    Disinformation is information disseminated primarily by intelligence organizations or other covert agencies designed to distort information, or deceive or influence United States decisionmakers, United States forces, coalition allies, key actors, or individuals by indirect or unconventional means. It is a form of propaganda directed toward decisionmakers to confuse them into making incorrect decisions. Disinformation can cause rifts in coalitions by playing off historical ethnic, racial, and cultural biases of coalition partners. Adversaries can direct disinformation indirectly, such as through third-party communications broadcasts. US Army Field Manual 3-13 Information Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, Procedures The laser-like focus of the American media...
  • SHOCKING PICTURES SHOW HOW SOLDIERS TREATED IRAQI PRISONERS IN SADDAM'S JAIL

    04/30/2004 7:17:36 AM PDT · by ZULU · 212 replies · 1,223+ views
    Drudge Report ^ | Apr 30, 2004 | UK DAILY MAIL
    TORTURED, ABUSED AND HUMILIATED - SHOCKING PICTURES SHOW HOW SOLDIERS TREATED IRAQI PRISONERS IN SADDAM'S JAIL Fri Apr 30, 2004 UK DAILY MAIL FOR decades, Saddam Hussein's infamous Abu Ghraib dungeon was the scene of unspeakable cruelty against Iraqi prisoners. Now the Americans are in charge - but the torture has continued. Photographs have emerged showing Iraqis being sexually abused and bullied by their U.S. captors. One, shown on Page One, depicts a hooded prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his hands. He was wrongly given to believe that if he fell off the box he would...
  • WHY THE TROOPS DON'T TRUST RUMMY (THE VIEW FROM AN IDIOT)

    05/14/2004 5:36:10 AM PDT · by OESY · 46 replies · 95+ views
    New York Post ^ | May 14, 2004 | RALPH PETERS
    <p>According to his handlers, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad to "boost troop morale." The best way the SecDef could improve morale would be to resign.</p> <p>In Operation Iraqi Freedom, Rumsfeld and his apparatchiks boldly defended Washington while our troops fought overseas. Now that the battle's shifted to Capitol Hill in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the SecDef's in Iraq.</p>
  • SICK ROMPS AT PORNY PRISON

    05/14/2004 12:10:38 AM PDT · by kattracks · 210 replies · 2,111+ views
    New York Post ^ | 5/14/04 | BRIDGET HARRISON
    <p>May 14, 2004 -- Iraq's feared Abu Ghraib jail was one big sex romp - sometimes by candlelight with an audience watching, U.S. troops said yesterday. Sex and alcohol were commonplace, and soldiers frequently set up candlelit rooms for voyeuristic sex shows, said a soldier who served at the notorious prison.</p>
  • Abu Ghraib...A Little Perspective

    05/14/2004 1:20:35 AM PDT · by rdb3 · 3 replies · 206+ views
    Townhall via FPM ^ | May 14, 2K4 | Larry Elder
    Abu Ghraib...A Little PerspectiveBy Larry ElderTownhall.com | May 14, 2004 Scandal! Shocking! Shame! A public relations setback for the war! The world no longer trusts America with her loss of the moral high ground! Yes, the pictures at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad show coalition American soldiers taunting, humiliating and apparently physically abusing Iraqi prisoners. British soldiers also face similar accusations. Both President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair recently apologized for the soldiers' behavior, and promised investigations, with several already underway. In America, officials already appeared before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees. No one justifies...
  • See More Hersh

    05/14/2004 1:14:16 AM PDT · by rdb3 · 1 replies · 219+ views
    FPM ^ | May 14, 2K4 | Lowell Ponte
    See More HershBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | May 14, 2004 A GHOST HAS BEEN SEEN IN THE IRAQI PRISON reportage about Abu Ghraib. Gray and disheveled, this specter reportedly has the glazed eyes and rattling chains seen in its previous hauntings of other news stories during the past 35 years. This apparition’s moanings have already made other national and world news coverage about American treatment of Abu Ghraib prisoners much more negative and dire.  But should this spirit be believed, or is it a lost soul condemned forever to walk the earth in perpetual pursuit of glory lost and its bete...
  • Don't confuse guards (in Iraq) with real terrorists ("must read")

    05/13/2004 11:38:45 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 145+ views
    Lufkin Daily News ^ | May 14, 2004 | MARC R. MASFERRER
    The scandal enveloping the military, and salivating the political and media critics of the Bush administration, over the treatment of Iraqi prisoners is a critical moment for the U.S. mission in Iraq, possibly affecting the prospects for long-term success. But you don't have to be an apologist for the the offending soldiers, or their commanders, to wonder whether we have gone overboard with all the attention and ensuing hand-wringing the scandal has brought. Tragically, it took the execution of an American citizen, caught on videotape and posted on the Internet, to provide some needed perspective. The beheading of 26-year-old Nick...
  • Rumsfeld dismisses criticism

    05/13/2004 10:57:11 PM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 62+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Friday, May 14, 2004 | By Guy Taylor
    <p>ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told troops in a surprise trip to the Abu Ghraib prison yesterday that he is "a survivor" who knows better than to take too seriously a score of calls from the press and politicians for his resignation over prisoner-abuse charges.</p>
  • Want a Different Abu Ghraib Story? Saddam had their hands cut off. America gave them new ones.

    05/13/2004 10:47:51 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 31 replies · 2,771+ views
    WSJ Opinion Journal ^ | May 14, 2004 | DANIEL HENNINGER
    It is the story of Americans, in and out of the U.S. government, who moved mountains to help seven horribly maimed Iraqi men. As perfect justice, the story in fact begins in Abu Ghraib prison, in 1995. With Iraq's economy in a tailspin, Saddam arrested nine Iraqi businessmen to scapegoat them as dollar traders. They got a 30-minute "trial," and were sentenced, after a year's imprisonment, to have their right hands surgically cut off at Abu Ghraib prison. Last year, after we liberated Iraq, a veteran TV news producer named Don North--who has worked for major U.S. broadcasters--was in Baghdad...
  • The Abu Ghraib Panic

    05/13/2004 10:09:56 PM PDT · by bin2baghdad · 7 replies · 82+ views
    Washington Post+ ^ | May 14, 2004 | Charles Krauthammer
    We are obsessing about the wrong question. It is not: Is our purpose in Iraq morally sound? Of course it is. The question today, as from the beginning, remains: Is that purpose achievable? Doability does not hinge on the pictures from Abu Ghraib. It hinges on what happens on the ground with the insurgencies. The greater general uprising that last month's panic-mongers had predicted has not occurred. The Sadr insurgency appears to be waning. Senior Shiite clerics, local leaders and demonstrators in the streets of Najaf have told Moqtada Sadr to get out of town. Meanwhile, his militia is being...
  • What to Do about the Abuses at Abu Ghraib? In the Army, Ignorance is No Excuse

    05/13/2004 9:52:58 PM PDT · by Congressman Billybob · 8 replies · 161+ views
    Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 15 May, 2004 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
    First, we put the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in proper context. One meaning of this story is to demonstrate that we are in a battle between two civilizations. Ours is a modern one, in which people who violate civilized standards on treatment of prisoners will be prosecuted and punished. On the other side is a barbaric civilization, in which graft, torture and mass murder are not only not punished, the perpetrators are praised and supported. No one should doubt at this point that we face a conflict as clear as that between the Romans and the Goths....
  • Troops Cheer Rumsfeld's Blast at Media

    05/13/2004 6:17:16 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 96 replies · 207+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 5/13/04 | NewsMax
    "I've stopped reading newspapers," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today to the troops in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. "You've got to keep your sanity somehow. I'm a survivor." The wire services did relate that remark. What they didn't admit was the loud cheers rising from the GIs. Fortunately, we saw (and heard) the footage on Fox News.
  • Off with Their Heads: Avenging Nick Berg

    05/13/2004 5:48:46 PM PDT · by Lando Lincoln · 49 replies · 504+ views
    Opinion Editorials ^ | 13 May 2004 | Karen Hathaway Pittman
    If anyone in America “caused” the beheading of Nick Berg, it was those few sanctimonious, cynical Congressmen (like Teddy Kennedy) who were looking to “decapitate” Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers--they are the ones with blood on their hands. Why, in time of war, could they not just accept the General’s plausible assertion that he sought to delay (not obstruct) the release of those photos from Abu Ghraib precisely in order to prevent such a “retaliatory” riposte? Well, for one thing, that kind of responsible, forward-thinking behavior just isn't masochistic and self-flogging enough for these ruthless politicos who are forever...
  • RatherBiased.com Reveals CBS Hypocrisy

    05/13/2004 3:44:52 PM PDT · by txradioguy · 18 replies · 545+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 13 May 2004 | Staff Writer
    "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather has decreed that the video showing al-Qaida terrorists beheading American contractor Nick Berg will not be shown in its entirety on his network, though the network has had no such problem in the past broadcasting other grisly images. Reports the Web site dedicated to monitoring Rather's broadcasts, RatherBiased.com: "The decision - made first by the staff of the CBS Evening News, including managing editor Dan Rather - now an official news division policy, came on the same night [Tuesday] that the network announced it was going to air footage of an American casually talking...
  • Accountability: Time for Rumsfeld to leave his post (triple-bagger BARF alert)

    05/13/2004 6:48:31 AM PDT · by Moose4 · 11 replies · 152+ views
    PRESIDENT BUSH WENT to the Pentagon on Monday to publicly tell Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he is doing “a superb job.” A superb job? Mr. Rumsfeld has been overseeing a Defense Department where such outrages as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have taken place, and there are disturbing hints that it is not an isolated incident. The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been frustrated for months in trying to get Pentagon action on prisoner abuse problems. As the independent Army Times newspaper observed: “This was a failure that ran straight to the top.” The impact...
  • Interrogation Rules Were Issued Before Iraq Abuses

    05/13/2004 6:18:16 AM PDT · by OESY · 11 replies · 188+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 13, 2004 | CARLA ANNE ROBBINS, GREG JAFFE and DAVID S. CLOUD
    WASHINGTON -- Shortly before U.S. troops photographed a series of abuses against Iraqi prisoners last fall, their commander issued guidelines allowing interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and the presence of military dogs -- if written permission was given. Pentagon officials say the commander, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, never granted such written permission. But the now-infamous photos of U.S. forces abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison demonstrate that sometimes extreme versions of techniques were used after the orders were issued in October 2003. A report by the International Red Cross organization, moreover, says that some of the techniques were...