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...Gaza in January rages as fiercely as ever. Earlier this month, Amnesty International published the findings of its inquiry into the conflict, accusing both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. Just this week, Britain announced that it had banned the sale to Israel of spare parts for its Saar 4.5 class corvette, because of the way the missile vessel had been used by Israel during the Gaza operation. An official U.N. inquiry visited Gaza in June and plans to issue its own report in September (Israel accuses the international body of bias and has declined to cooperate with...
...unborn child, but they should be obliged to listen to an expert for an hour or so in order to make a correctly informed decision about whether to carry a pregnancy to term. Every child deserves that chance, regardless of his or her genetic constitution. Wolfram Henn, M.D. Homburg-Saar, Germany...
TIME INTERNATIONAL Managing Editor: Karsten Prager Assistant Managing Editor: Jose M. Ferrer III Senior Editors: Christopher Redman, George Russell, John Saar Senior Writers: Michael S. Serrill, James Walsh Associate Editors: William R. Doerner, Barbara Rudolph Staff Writer: Emily Mitchell Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon Reporters: Sinting Lai, Lawrence Mondi, Megan Rutherford, Sribala Subramanian Art: Jane Frey (Senior Associate Director); James Elsis (Associate Director); Nomi Silverman (Assistant Art Director); Victoria Nightingale (Designer...
...fetal position for 24 hours without food or water and left in their own excrement, another gagged with duct tape that covered much of his head and another who had torn out his hair after being chained all night in a hot room. Former Army Sergeant Erik Saar, who served at Gitmo and wrote Inside the Wire with TIME correspondent Viveca Novak, has described an instance in which a female interrogator smeared fake menstrual blood on a captive's face. It may have been a measure of how detainees are treated that when Army Specialist Sean Baker played the role...
...months starting in December 2002, Army Sergeant Erik Saar served as an Arabic translator and a military intelligence specialist at the detention facility for suspected terrorists that the U.S. operates at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He recounts his experiences in a new book, Inside the Wire, co-written by TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. In the following excerpt, Saar, now retired from the Army, deals with the issue of suicide attempts among the detainees and the military's use of the Initial Reaction Force (IRF). An IRF team, Saar explains, is a five-person unit responsible...