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...Scandal at Abu Ghraib As details of the horrible torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by U.S. soldiers and interrogators continue to emerge [May 17], they fit into a pattern of abuse shown in reports from Afghanistan and Guantánamo. Such a consistent approach can only be explained by direction from the top, not by anarchy from below. As a psychologist, I can state that some of the methods are well-known psychological procedures of behavior control. The attempt by the Bush Administration to blame individual soldiers for these abuses is ridiculous. Guido F. Gebauer Niedersachsen, Germany...
...expressed contrition for the inhumane treatment of Iraqi detainees in prisons controlled by American forces. Will it now demonstrate contrition by releasing the detainees at Guantánamo Bay or by bringing them immediately to an independent and impartial trial? Magnus Nielsen London...
...determining factor in detention." Colonel MATTHEW BEEVERS, chief spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, explaining why juveniles are in custody there and in Guantánamo...
...Salzburg this month. But that success was overshadowed by the victory in neighboring Carinthia of Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. One step left, two steps right. Free at Last U.K. The U.S. released five Britons held as terror suspects for two years at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The five were briefly detained by British antiterrorist police on their arrival back in the U.K., and then released without charge. One of the men, Jamal Udeen, said he had been subjected to beatings and ?psychological torture? in the camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime...
...guns aren't pointed at each other, stable government can still be a matter of life and death - By Chris Thornton Britons Freed U.K. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that five of nine British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism for two years at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay are to be released. Straw said it would be up to police and prosecutors to decide whether the men would face any charges in the U.K. Families Find Fault AUSTRIA Relatives of the 155 people who died in a ski train fire in 2000 reacted with anger...