Abu Ghraib

Full Circuit Revives Abu Ghraib Torture SuitCourthouse News ServiceBy TRAVIS SANFORD (CN) - The full 4th Circuit revived claims that defense contractors conspired with the government to cover up their abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. In an 11-3 en banc ruling, the Richmond, Va.-based federal appeals court ...Accused torturers should not get immunityReporterHerald.comall 3 news articles »  

Two U.S. companies can be prosecuted for the alleged role of their employees in torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a U.S. federal court ruled last week. The companies are CACI of Arlington, Virginia, which provided the interrogators at the prison, and L-3/Titan of New York city, which provided translators at the same location.  

(The Associated Press) RICHMOND, Va. — A divided federal appeals court in Virginia has revived two lawsuits by former Iraqi detainees who claimed civilian interrogators and translators participated in their torture at the Abu Ghraib prison.  

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing the Abu Ghraib torture lawsuits against military contractors to proceed ... for now. In an 11-3 decision after en banc rehearing, the Fourth Circuit reinstated two torture claims in Virginia and Maryland federal courts. The court did not rule on the merits......  

Indeed, by PowerPoint and by lectern ... Ominously, slide 15 of  Dooley’s “Counter-Jihad Op Design Model” called for the eventual “elimination” of any influence that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) may have within ...  

Three construction workers were killed and three others were wounded in an attack launched by gunmen on a government hospital building under construc...  

Lynndie England--Miss Abu Ghraib--says that Iraqis have better lives after the US invaded their country and murdered tens of thousands of them. Others in and out of the USG regularly say the same thing. And that the war was worth it.  But worth it for whom? She also says she misses the routine and the [...]  

A federal appeals court found that private military contractors are not immune from litigation when they engage in torture.  

When President George W. Bush proposed razing Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, this American Army judge declared it a crime scene and forbade its demolition. When five years later President Barack Obama asked the Guantánamo war court to ...  

People best know Lynndie England from the damning photographs of her that surfaced eight years ago, when she and some military colleagues tortured and humiliated Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Today, the dishonorably discharged England is an underemployed single mother living with her parents in West Virginia.  

In an interview with the Internet newspaper The Daily, the 29-year-old unemployed single mother living in rural West Virginia showed little remorse for her role in a scandal that indelibly tarnished the U.S. military presence in Iraq. "Their lives are better.  

Telegraph.co.ukSyria: UN chief encourages terrorism - World NewsSan Francisco Luxury NewsSyria has accused the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of bias and encouraging terrorism, after he blamed government forces for violating a ceasefire it agreed to earlier this month. An editorial in the state-run Tishreen newspaper said on ...Syria blames UN chief for encouraging terrorismallvoicesLocal NGO`s express Condemnation of Terrorist...  

Hindustan TimesBadal for evolving political consensus to tackle terrorismHindustan Times(Munish Byala/HT photo) In a bid to curb terrorism, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal today urged the central government to make concerted efforts to evolve political consensus at national level for the eradication of social maladies like ...Badal for evolving consensus to tackle terrorismPunjab Newslineall 54 news articles »  

USA TODAYTerrorism adviser: No security breach in Secret Service caseTbo.comBy AP WASHINGTON — The White House's top counterterrorism adviser says the Secret Service's prostitution scandal did not expose weak spots in the president's security. John Brennan says the disciplinary actions taken against the officers allegedly ...Agents' actions put president at riskTheNewsTribune.comall 2,647 news articles »  

Lone-wolf terrorism threat risesThe AustralianCOUNTER-TERRORISM police in Australia are investigating fewer plots than a decade ago, but the cases on their books are more serious and more likely to involve a genuine threat. A year after the death of Osama bin Laden, the Australian Federal Police's ...