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washingtonpost.com

• New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge (May 21, 2004)
  "Abu Ghraib Detainees' Statements Describe Sexual Humiliation And Savage Beatings"
  • Iraq: New Abuse Details
    "Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. was online Friday, May 21 at Noon ET, to discuss the new evidence of detainee abuse and The Post's decision to make the documents, photos and video available to the public."
• Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
  "These documents, obtained by The Washington Post, are the offical English translations of previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq."
• Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee (May 7, 2004)
  "U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the the treatment of Iraqi Prisoners Friday...The transcript follows..."
  Includes both video and text.

White House

• Bush Reaffirms Commitments in Iraq (May 10, 2004)
  Statement at the Pentagon.
• Bush, Jordanian King Discuss Iraq and the Middle East (May 6, 2004)
• Bush Meets with Alhurra Television (May 5, 2004)
  Re: Prisoner abuse. Text and video available.
• Bush Meets with Al Arabiya Television (May 5, 2004)
  Re: Prisoner abuse.

DefenseLINK News - Speeches
U.S. Department of Defense

• Testimony of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
  Testimony as Prepared by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Before The Senate and House Armed Services Committees, Friday, May 7, 2004.

CBS News - 60 Minutes II

• Court Martial in Iraq (April 28, 2004 episode)
  "Includes graphic photos of U.S. troops mistreating and humiliating Iraqi POWs."
  Episode that first aired the pictures.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - The ICRC in Iraq
"The ICRC's main priority in Iraq is to ensure that the rights of civilians and persons deprived of their freedom are respected and that the occupying powers are aware of and fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law."

• Protecting Life and Dignity: "No War is Above International Law" (May 19, 2004)
  By Jakob Kellenberger, ICRC President.
  Originally published in the Financial Times (UK).
• Iraq- ICRC explains position over detention report and treatment of prisoners (May 8, 2004)
• Report by the ICRC on the coalition forcesí treatment of persons held in Iraq - (dead link)
  May 7, 2004 Press Release.

Baltimore Sun

• Photos Etched in Arab Minds
  Op-Ed by Shibley Telhami, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, May 9, 2004.

Christianity Today

• Weblog: Rounding Up the Few Christian Voices on the Iraq Prison Scandal (May 11, 2004)
  Compiled by Ted Olsen

• Abu Ghurayb Prison - (dead link)
  • Taguba Report - (dead link)
    Hearing Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade
  • • BG Karpinski Rebuttal to AR 15-6 Investigation of the 800s' Military Police Brigade - (dead link)
    • 
      April 1, 2004.
  • Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (CRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq - (dead link)
    February 2004

Human Rights Watch

• Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Iraq: Reprisal Killing of Civilian [Nicholas Berg] is a War Crime (May 13, 2004)
    "The brutal killing in Iraq of Nicholas Berg constitutes a wanton and cruel act of murder with no conceivable justification, Human Rights Watch said today."
  • Iraq: U.S. Prisoner Abuse Sparks Concerns Over War Crimes (April 30, 2004)
    "Investigation Should Probe Role of Superiors, Private Contractors"

NPR [National Public Radio]

• Report: Iraqi Prisoners Victims of 'Criminal' Abuse
  Feature Story, May 4, 2004.
  "NPR has obtained a copy of the classified internal military report, completed two months ago, which details physical and sexual abuse of Iraqi inmates."
  • Military's Report on Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison [.pdf]
• Rumsfeld Denies Cover-Up of Iraqi Prison Abuses
  All Things Considered, May 4, 2004.

The New Yorker

• The Gray Zone
  "How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib."
  By Seymour M. Hersh, Issue of 2004-05-24.
• Hearts and Minds
  "The real failures at Abu Ghraib."
  By David Remnick, Issue of 2004-05-17.
• Torture at Abu Ghraib
  "American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?"
  By Seymour M. Hersh, Issue of 2004-05-10.

The New Yorker

• The Gray Zone
  "How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib."
  By Seymour M. Hersh, Issue of 2004-05-24.
• Torture at Abu Ghraib
  "American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?"
  By Seymour M. Hersh, Issue of 2004-05-10.

PBS - Online NewsHour

• Bending The Rules? (May 13, 2004)
  "Legal experts debate whether the U.S. military broke rules of the Geneva Convention in its interrogation of Iraqi detainees."

PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

• Is Torture Every Justified? (May 14, 2004)
  Interview with Reverend Barbara K. Lundblad, Associate Prof. of Preaching, Union Theological Seminary.

See Also

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Poynter Online - Geneva Convention Links
"Poynter Online's Links to the News column compiles valuable Web resources on current and previous news topics. This week we have compiled a list of resources about the Geneva Conventions."

Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions
- Society of Professional Journalists

Uniform Code of Military Justice
"Congressional Code of Military Criminal Law applicable to all military members worldwide."

Georgetown University - National Security Archive

• Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From the Past
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122, May 2004.
  "CIA interrogation manuals written in the 1960s and 1980s described 'coercive techniques' such as those used to mistreat detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to the declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive."
  • Secret 1992 Report
    Written by then Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney.

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