Short Takes: News From All Over: February 24, 2005
February 24, 2005
February 2005
Staff Utne.com
The Other Abused Prisoners
By Emily Bazelon, Mother Jones, and Tara McKelvey, The American Prospect
The Abu Ghraib scandal erupted after photographs offered irrefutable evidence that U.S. military personnel tortured Iraqi prisoners. But a host of stories 'without art,' based on military investigations that have documented similar abuses, have nary registered a blip on the moral-outrage radar. One such story, as told by Emily Bazelon in Mother Jones, examines how the military intelligence unit that presided over Abu Ghraib first honed its skills at the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, where two prisoners' deaths were ruled by military officials to be homicides. Another, by Tara McKelvey in The American Prospect, tells of mistreatment, including sexual abuse, of female prisoners at Abu Ghraib. -- Hannah Lobel
http://www.mojones.com/news/feature/2005/03/03_2005_Bazelon.html
http://tinyurl.com/6blwj
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Happiness is back
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Peek: The Blog of Blogs
By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet
Need help navigating the blogosphere? AlterNet offers its expertise by launching a new ... blog! Associate editor Evan Derkacz wades through the daily blog smog and points readers to the best of what's out there. -- Hannah Lobel
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