Word: ghraib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just for fun, kind of venting their frustration." PAUL ARTHUR, U.S. Army investigator, testifying at a hearing for U.S. Private Lynndie England on what motivated soldiers to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
Kerry seemed to stand down after he marched through the primaries. To the consternation of many Democrats, he played rope-a-dope as the Bush campaign spent more than $80 million on mostly negative ads against him. Kerry muted his attacks on Bush during the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal and the Marines' embarrassing retreat from Fallujah. I suspect these moves were intentional--part of the newly confident Kerry's grand design for the campaign: to lie low until July, when he announced his running mate in exactly the manner that he intended, and then to make the grand step...
...violence raged in several Sunni towns west of Baghdad on April 8, Mohammed Rifat steered his green Jeep Cherokee out of the gates of Abu Ghraib prison, where he worked as a construction foreman for a Kellogg Brown & Root subcontractor. Rifat, 41, who returned to Iraq in February after 24 years in Toronto, was heading home to care for his aging mother. He never made it. Somewhere in the night, his family believes, kidnappers stopped his vehicle and spirited him away. This is everyone's worst nightmare in the new Iraq. A bewildering variety of groups--some seeking money, some...
...June 21]. Torture is torture. Period. Honor is honor. Period. There are no shades of gray. If the U.S. wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil rights, it must maintain moral principles in all situations. Punishment of the soldiers directly involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse is pure hypocrisy if we do not also bring to justice everyone in the military chain of command, as high up as necessary. The U.S.'s standing in the world community requires this. MICHAELENE PENDLETON Moab, Utah...
...Beret named Jonathan (Jack) Idema in Kabul last week, they were startled to find a makeshift prison. Inside were three Afghan prisoners hanging from their feet. Five more men were locked up and badly beaten. Another example of prison abuse by U.S. forces? No, this do-it-yourself Abu Ghraib was a private jail being run by Idema and two other Americans who, along with several Afghan helpers, appear to have set themselves up as antiterrorist bounty hunters. "They pretended they were fighting terrorism," said Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali, after the three Americans were arrested. "But they were outlaws...