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Today on Flashpoints:
Wide-spread Torture, Rape and Murder of Iraqi prisoners held
by the US: We’ll feature a report from Baghdad on how
this is nothing new except the pictures: Also we’ll
look at the potential legal ramifications of US torture in
Iraq and we will hear from the families of soldiers outraged
by the war: we’ll also feature an interview on the rejection
of Sharon’s plan to leave Gaza. And of course, the Knight
Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Robert Knight Report
5:05 PM PST
Report from Baghdad with Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Dahr Jamail
The administration scrambles to find scapegoats while Bush
and Blair insist they were shocked by the photo evidence of
torture and murder of Iraqi civilians. CBS
delayed reporting Iraqi prison abuse after General Myers
called Dan Rather. Release of May 10 New
Yorker article by Seymour Hersh was the prod to release
the photos.
Mainstream media downplays what Mr. Jamail, Human
Rights Watch, and Occupation
Watch have reported has been widespread abuse in Abu Ghraib,
Baghdad Airport, Tikrit and other cities in Iraq since the
beginning of the Occupation. The abuse is rampant, it is not
isolated.
Ref: Torture
at Abu Ghraib American soldiers brutalized Iraqi detainees.
How far up does the blame go?
New
Yorker Online Photo Gallery
Dahr documents the details of a 57 year old healthy man beaten,
electrocuted, whipped and tortured who slipped into a coma
from the abuse. Under the custody of military doctor Michael
C. Hodges the Iraqi man was dispatched as a 'heart attack/heat
stroke' victim.
5:25 PM PST
Interview with Michael Ratner, International
Human Rights Lawyer.
Attorney Ratner describes the legal ramifications and remedies
to these clear war crimes. NPR reported that the abuses do
not rise to war crime because of the flimsy excuse that 'there
was not a war going on'.
Geneva Convention legally defined 'grave breaches' apply
our Occupation forces in Iraq, their military commanders,
private contractors and the U.S. officials behind them. Offenses
are criminally prosecutable under U.S. public courts. The
seven rushed 'reprimands' clearly does not begin to address
the criminality.
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials apply to this Illegal War,
a War of Agression targeting civilians. Detainees without
access to Red Cross constitutes crimes against humanity.
5:36 PM PST
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of ElectronicIntifada
5:49 PM PST
Nancy Lessen and Alice Brown of Military
Families Speak Out and Bring
Them Home Now
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