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...enjoy as U.S. Secretary of State, as the sharp antipathies of the Iraq war have dissipated. Instead, Rice will find European publics and politicians full of fresh anger about how the U.S. is conducting the war on terror: not just old complaints about Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, but new ones about cia "black sites" in Europe that allegedly house secret prisoners, and an active program of shuttling captured terrorist suspects around using European airports. Some European countries are investigating exactly what the U.S. has been up to on their territory. E.U. officials are threatening dire punishments...
...Iraqis. Another Iraqi operative is Abu Abdullah, who had worked on the security detail for one of Saddam's inner circle and joined an insurgent group formed from the Republican Guard following the U.S. invasion in 2003. After he was captured by the U.S. and sent to Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Abdullah enrolled in a prison-yard madrasah, or religious school; by the time he was released, he identified himself as a holy warrior for Islam. Today he is what the military calls a tier-two al-Qaeda leader, commanding cells in and around Baghdad...
Your piece on Iraqi prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi, nicknamed the Iceman, who died at Abu Ghraib while in U.S. custody, should alert all conscientious Americans that a gestapo-style secret police is operating in our society [Nov. 21]. The CIA orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form, by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened up the can of worms that...
...troubling, it sets a disturbing precedent, that the U.S.’ moral imperative to act against international terrorism can justify a breaking of commitments to human rights. Exempting the CIA from any anti-torture measures effectively legalizes the types of behavior that led to the atrocities of Abu Ghraib, and so scandalized the U.S. public...
...dead--it's on you." Another guard later said the agents "didn't know what the hell to do." A CIA employee reported being told by a colleague to "keep his mouth shut about the incident and not say anything about it in e-mail." When Abu Ghraib's military-intelligence commander showed up, a witness heard him say, "I'm not going down for this alone." To avoid roiling the other prisoners and prevent decomposition of the body, al-Jamadi's corpse was iced down and held in the interrogation room overnight. The next day, wrapped in a body...