Reply #4: Mercenaries not hired by DOD Gale Norton is their boss

[seemslikeadream]

but working on a cookbook on the side for extra cash!


CWebster

Follow Torture Trail at Abu Ghraib


The actual interrogators accused of encouraging U.S. troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in the Iraqi tortures, it now turns out, attended an "anti-terror" training camp in Israel and, earlier this year, was presented with an award by Shaul Mofaz, the right-wing Israeli defense minister.

According to J.P. London's company, CACI International, the visit of London -- sponsored by an Israeli lobby group and including U.S. congressmen and other defense contractors -- was "to promote opportunities for strategic partnerships and joint ventures between U.S. and Israeli defense and homeland security agencies."

The Pentagon and the occupation powers in Iraq insist that only U.S. citizens have been allowed to question prisoners in Abu Ghraib but this takes no account of Americans who may also hold double citizenship. The once secret torture report by U.S. Gen. Antonio Taguba refers to "third country nationals" involved in the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq.

Taguba mentions Steven Staphanovic and John Israel as involved in the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Staphanovic, who worked for CACI -- known to the U.S. military as "Khaki" -- was said by Taguba to have "allowed and/or instructed MPs (military police), who were not trained in interrogation techniques, to facilitate interrogations by 'setting conditions' ... he clearly knew his instructions equated to physical abuse." One of Staphanovic's co-workers, Joe Ryan -- who was not named in the Taguba report -- now says he underwent an "Israeli interrogation course" before going to Iraq.



http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0526-05.htm


seemslikeadream

"John Israel" from earlier posts

finecraft

Abu Ghraib civilian interrogator's diary online


From Billmon (http://billmon.org ) - "Bernhard, a Whiskey Bar reader in Germany, has made a spectacular catch - or cache, I should say, since it comes from the bowels of the Google data base.

What he stumbled across is the diary of one Joe Ryan, a frequent caller and on-air personality at station KSTP, a conservative talk radio station in Minneapolis. More recently, Joe has been serving as a military interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and KSTP has been posting his diary on their web site."

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:XYYOCOWnu_8J:www.am1500.com/perso ...



orthogonal

Here's a bit of that diary that gives me pause


From that diary link: "CW3 Dan Adkins said to the television, 'kill 1,000 for every hostage killed. No need to discriminate either.'"

Much as I wholeheartedly support our troops, I have to be honest and say that this idea of mass reprisals -- and without discrimination, which apparently means just rounding up insurgents or civilians -- for the deaths of American troops reminded me of this:

In some occupied areas in which the Nazis had to contend with well organized and active guerrilla units, they applied a simple rule: they would massacre one hundred nearby civilians for every German soldier killed; fifty for every one wounded. Often this was a minimum that might be doubled or tripled. They thus killed vast numbers of innocent peasants and townsfolk, possibly as many as 8,000 in Kraguyevats, 1,755 in Kraljevo, and overall 80,000 in Jajinci, to name just in a few places in Yugoslavia alone. Most executions were small in number, but day by day they added up. From an official German war diary: 16 December 1942, "In Belgrade, 8 arrests, 60 Mihailovich supporters shot;" 27 December, "In Belgrade, 11 arrests, 250 Mihailovich supporters shot as retaliation." A German placard from Belgrade announced that the Nazis shot fifty hostages in retaliation for the dynamiting of a bridge. On 25 May 1943 the Nazis shot 150 hostages in Kraljevo; in October they shot 150 hostages in Belgrade; fifty hostages in Belgrade in August 1943; 150 Serbs at Cacak in October; and so on. In Greece, as another example, the Nazis may have burned and destroyed as many as 1,600 villages each with populations of 500 to 1,000 people, no doubt massacring many of the inhabitants beforehand. Overall, the Nazis thus slaughtered hundreds of thousands in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and France; and millions overall in Poland and the Soviet Union.


(from: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM )


NewYorkerfromMass


http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=888

from: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=ascii&q=torture+Iraq+p ...


Nordic65

Civilian interrogator at your service...

Wow, talk about spilling their beans...


#1 - Evidence from the horses mouth. No mention of any military involvement thou.

"I worked the guy from the Ar Ramadi area again tonight. I got home about 3:00am after writing reports and putting together the associations with the others in his group. It was great because my guy knows where the forged citizenship papers are made and by who and the real names and origins of the other detainees captured with him. It is hard for the other guys to lie when I already know all about their backgrounds, but they sure are trying."


#2 - Anyone associated with this prisoner can just log on the net and take the necessary precautions - very unprofessional and bordering on giving information to enemy. Of course he's a civilian and probably cannot be charged with treason.

"My smuggler friend just keeps on talking. I have nick-named him Han Solo since he is a smuggler extraordinaire. I have received information regarding the entire network from start to finish on how foreign fighters are coming into Iraq; who is paying for it; how they communicate; how they get their weapons once here; and how they move to their target locations. This will never make the papers, but it sure is exciting to know the information."


THIS IS BAD!

Tinoire

About these 3rd party nationals

<snip>

Speculation that "John Israel" may be an intelligence cover name has fueled speculation whether this individual could have been one of a number of Israeli interrogators hired under a classified contract. Because U.S. citizenship and documentation thereof are requirements for a U.S. security clearance, Israeli citizens would not be permitted to hold a Top Secret clearance. However, dual U.S.-Israeli citizens could have satisfied Pentagon requirements that interrogators hold U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance. Although the Taguba report refers twice to Israel as an employee of Titan, the company claims he is one of their sub-contractors. CACI stated that one of the men listed in the report "is not and never has been a CACI employee" without providing more detail. A U.S. intelligence source revealed that in the world of intelligence "carve out" subcontracts such confusion is often the case with "plausible deniability" being a foremost concern.

In fact, the Taguba report does reference the presence of non-U.S. and non-Iraqi interrogators at Abu Ghraib. The report states, "In general, US civilian contract personnel (Titan Corporation, CACI, etc), third country nationals, and local contractors do not appear to be properly supervised within the detention facility at Abu Ghraib."

The Pentagon is clearly concerned about the outing of the Taguba report and its references to CACI, Titan, and third country nationals, which could permanently damage U.S. relations with Arab and Islamic nations. The Pentagon's angst may explain why the Taguba report is classified Secret No Foreign Dissemination.

<snip>

During his testimony before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Rumsfeld was pressed upon by Senator John McCain about the role of the private contractors in the interrogations and abuse. McCain asked Rumsfeld four pertinent questions, ". . . who was in charge? What agency or private contractor was in charge of the interrogations? Did they have authority over the guards? And what were the instructions that they gave to the guards?" When Rumsfeld had problems answering McCain's question, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Central Command, said there were 37 contract interrogators used in Abu Ghraib. The two named contractors, CACI and Titan, have close ties to the Israeli military and technology communities. Last January 14, after Provost Marshal General of the Army, Major General Donald Ryder, had already uncovered abuse at Abu Ghraib, CACI's President and CEO, Dr. J.P. (Jack) London was receiving the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah's Albert Einstein Technology award at the Jerusalem City Hall, with right-wing Likud politician Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski in attendance. Oddly, CACI waited until February 2 to publicly announce the award in a press release. CACI has also received grants from U.S.-Israeli bi-national foundations.

Titan also has had close connections to Israeli interests. After his stint as CIA Director, James Woolsey served as a Titan director. Woolsey is an architect of America's Iraq policy and the chief proponent of and lobbyist for Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. An adviser to the neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, Project for the New American Century, Center for Security Policy, Freedom House, and Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Woolsey is close to Stephen Cambone, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, a key person in the chain of command who would have not only known about the torture tactics used by U.S. and Israeli interrogators in Iraq but who would have also approved them. Cambone was associated with the Project for the New American Century and is viewed as a member of Rumsfeld's neo-conservative "cabal" within the Pentagon.

<snip>

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen05102004.html

Steven Staphanovic we were talking about him before but his name was spelled differently and some did not know if it was the same person. Would you happen to know another spelling or the thread from awhile back? There was some good stuff there.


PaDUer

Steven Stefanowicz


http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11776879&BRD=2185&PAG=461&de...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11776865&BRD=2185&PAG=461&de...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11776867&BRD=2185&PAG=461&de...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11776869&BRD=2185&PAG=461&de...

seemslikeadream

Diary of an interrogator: After a tough day's questioning, a relaxing evening of jail-roof golf

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
09 May 2004



Among the golfers is a civilian accused by a US Army report of being "directly or indirectly responsible for the abuse" at the prison. The diary also reveals the pressure on interrogators and the extremely right-wing views of some.

Joe Ryan, a former Green Beret working in Abu Ghraib for CACI International, a defence IT contractor, had been keeping the diary for a conservative talk-show radio station in Minneapolis, KSTP 1500. The diary was posted on the station's website until, Mr Ryan said, military authorities requested its removal. On 25 April, Mr Ryan wrote: "We have foreign fighters from Morocco, Syria, Jordan, and other countries detained here. They are not sponsored by their respective countries to come here, but it is due to their individual choices, be it religious or stupidity ... I got to take the rest of the day off after our long booth time. This gave us a nice evening after dinner to head to the roof and play a round of golf.

"Scott Norman, Jeff Mouton, Steve Hattabaugh, Steve Stefanowicz, and I all took turns trying to hit balls over the back wall and on to the highway. Since the club is a left-handed 3 iron, I had an unfair advantage and missed a dump truck by only about 10 feet ... We do what we can to make it fun here."

Mr Stefanowicz, 35, a former naval reserve officer also employed by Arlington-based CACI International as an interrogator, became a reservist in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 2001. A CACI official said last week that Mr Stefanowicz was "by all accounts doing a damn fine job". But Major General Antonio Taguba, who carried out an investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib, believed Mr Stefanowicz was one of the people "either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib".
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=519434


seemslikeadream

Joe in his own words

Anyway, here's Joe in his own words:

For those of you who do not know my military and civilian background, let me give a little bio to maybe clarify how I look at things while I am here.
I was in Air Force Junior ROTC in high school and went to University of Colorado for two years on Air Force ROTC scholarship. I decided that Aerospace Engineering was not for me and left college.

I enlisted into the Army as a PFC for an interrogator position with an airborne slot. My language wish list consisted of Russian, German, or Spanish. In the army's omnipotence, they chose to send me to the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC to learn Swahili. My first assignment was with 3rd Special Forces Group where I was in-processed a whole 13 days prior to going on my first deployment with a team to Uganda. I have spent time in 10 African countries with the teams and earned my "S" identifier after completion of selection and qualifying course for weapons specialist (18B), but was never released by MI branch since I was one of two Swahili linguists in the army, so carried the 18B as a secondary specialty. I went through the DOD Strategic Debriefer Course, Israeli Interrogation Course, and the SCAN Course. In 1994, I went into Haiti with two SF teams into La Cayes on the southern peninsula. After securing our objective, we were informed the invasion was canceled. This meant no further reinforcements for 28 days and forever resentful to the philandering president. In Haiti I performed more than 80 interrogations and conducted the force protection assessments.

Since MI Branch would not release me, I reclassified to 98C (Signals Intelligence Analyst) so I could advance my career. So a Swahili linguist was sent to Korea for a year upon completion of the school. The blessing is that I met my wonderful wife in 98C school and spent the year in Korea with her. I was in charge of the two Trojan Spirit systems for the 2nd Infantry Division.

Needing a desk to try on for size, I went to work for the National Security Agency for the last 17 month of my active duty. As the only military person in the department and the only one to have spent time in Eastern Africa, I had four civilians making MUCH more money than I working for me during the height of the Sudanese civil war.
more
http://billmon.org/archives/001450.html



".....In order to avoid going back to active duty, I signed on with a defense contractor and am now over here as an interrogator."

LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.interce ...


Octafish

Right wing ideologue. Tortures for a living. Plays reckless golf.


The entire man's life is devoted to killing.

Plus, as a civilian contractor, he gives his boss "plausible deniability."

From the article:

Elsewhere he says: "'Wild' Bill Armstrong is one of our interrogators. Bill is married with five kids and a devout Christian, father, and husband ... Politically, Bill makes (the right wing radio host) Rush Limbaugh look like a flaming liberal."

Thanks for finding this article, seemslikeadream! It wasn't in my Sunday paper today.

These fellows are the same as the NAZIs.

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

seemslikeadream

text from the memory hole - JCMach1


JCMach1

Here is the text from the memory hole

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000856.htm



Octafish
The boy's a right-wing NUTJOB...

... raised on Reagan. The guy makes clear his hatreds, even when they're superior officers. He also blames the media for distorting the picture -- just like Ollie and 'Nam. "We'd a won if it weren't for the pictures in the living rooms." This stuff needs be archived. From the link -- one entry of MANY:

"Meanwhile, While We Were Torturing: Joe Ryan's Iraq Diary (from Abu Ghraib)"

EXCERPT...

I ask that everyone say a prayer or two over the next 48 hours for PFC Keith Maupin, KBR employee Thomas Hamill, and for the Marines in our area. God willing, all three will make the media and give a good story to report for a change. Enough said about that.

Work is fast and furious, but we are more productive right now than we have been since I have been here. Some intelligence things are really coming together and could shift a few things to our advantage, at least west and north of Baghdad. The Al Fallujah situation is being guided by results from the intelligence gleaned from here as well as at their division cage. We are making progress on rooting out foreign fighters as well as those individuals that are helping/hiding them.

Christine Chaney is another of our three CACI females here. She left the army last fall and was actually in the 202nd MI BN that we are working with here. Christine is tall like my sister-in-law, so my posture always improves like when I am around my sister-in-law. She also was in Afghanistan last year with the 202nd and is a fluent Farsi and Pashto linguist in addition to being an experienced interrogator. It is impressive because the three women we have here are all former army and hard chargers. They are more professional and tougher than most of the female soldiers here.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000856.htm



nolabels

No need for stories we have some real ones

YOU GET EXCATLY WHAT IT SAYS IN THE BROCHURE !

INFACT YOU’LL LIKE IT SO MUCH

YOU WON’T WANT TO GO HOME

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=myspace.chez.tiscali.fr/Large_C ...

Nordic65

Here is the diary...

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:XYYOCOWnu_8J:www.am1500.com/perso ...


seemslikeadream

A few revealing entries from his diary - daleo

daleo A few revealing entries from his diary - hard to read this stuff

Here he is advocating genocide and murdering journalists:

"We watched the Al Jazeera footage of the two American soldiers that are being held hostage. CW3 Dan Adkins said to the television, "kill 1,000 for every hostage killed. No need to discriminate either." We know they were captured right down the road from our location. We also know they are still in the general area. The first thing that needs to happen is to stake every Al Jazeera reporter in the middle of the desert and let the buzzards have them. "

Here he describes a "contractor" who forgets she is not in charge of the soldiers she works with:

"Berryl Jackson is one of the three females we have here. She is a retired Chief Warrant Officer 3. To show you what a small world it is, she was my interrogation instructor when I went through the school 13 years ago. BJ is from Costa Rica originally and is a real character. She sometimes forgets that she is no longer in the military and is not in charge of the soldiers that she works with, but she is a wealth of knowledge and one heck of an interrogator."

Here he is, keeping the Iraqi Governing Council in the dark:

Today was a short day. There were six of us that had to come in early and conduct long interrogations to ensure that certain detainees were only able to be seen, but not talked to. The Iraqi Governing Council came and looked through our mirrors into the booths to see some of the foreign fighters we have detained. They wanted to talk to them and film to show the international media, but we refused, due to not being able to interrupt interrogations. They were much more patient than we thought they would be so they tried to wait us out. Five and a half hours in the booth was a long time, but we finally outlasted them. The IGC left with only the satisfaction that we have foreign fighters from Morocco, Syria, Jordan, and other countries detained here.

Here is a pretty chilling comment given what we now know:

"Christine Chaney is another of our three CACI females here. She left the army last fall and was actually in the 202nd MI BN that we are working with here. Christine is tall like my sister-in-law, so my posture always improves like when I am around my sister-in-law. She also was in Afghanistan last year with the 202nd and is a fluent Farsi and Pashto linguist in addition to being an experienced interrogator. It is impressive because the three women we have here are all former army and hard chargers. They are more professional and tougher than most of the female soldiers here."

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000856.htm


starroute

More on Steven Stefanowicz

He comes from the next town down the road from me, and the local papers have been full of the story. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11614603&BRD=1674 ...

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_2abusemay08,0,2804243.story?col ...


seemslikeadream

Telford abuzz about man ID'd in abuse report

By Pervaiz Shallwani
Of The Morning Call
May 9, 2004


Steven Stefanowicz played volleyball and basketball and belonged to student government groups at Souderton Area High School in the late 1980s. Four years ago he joined the Naval Reserve, and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he volunteered for active duty and served in the Middle East.

Now, the 34-year-old from Franconia Township, near Telford, has been named as one of four men who might be responsible for the humiliation and attempted murder of Iraqi prisoners inside the


Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

The allegations are outlined in an Army report that details soldier abuse at the prison between October and December. It lists near-death beatings, electric torture and threats to rape male Iraqi detainees, and mentions a photo of a woman soldier holding a dog chain or strap that's tied around a naked detainee's neck.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_2abusemay08,0,2804243.story?col

seemslikeadream

Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum Steven Stephanowicz

Under suspicion

BETH COHEN , Staff Writer 05/08/2004

Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum of Snyder Road in Towamencin was suspended from his duties as commander of the 320th Military Battalion on Jan. 17‚ 2004‚ according to a U.S. Army report on the investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba.
Also named is civilian intelligence contractor Steven Stefanowicz‚ who has been cited in various published reports although there is a discrepancy in the spelling of his last name‚ with it also listed as Stephanowicz.


The U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Information Office at the Pentagon in Arlington‚ Va.‚ on Thursday said they had no record of a Steven Stephanowicz‚ but did have records showing that a Steven Anthony Stefanowicz enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Feb. 20‚ 1998.

He became an Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class‚ U.S. Naval Reserve‚ on Feb. 8‚ 2002‚ according to information supplied by Lt. Mike Kafka‚ Navy spokesman. Stefanowicz also received numerous awards‚ ribbons and medals during his service.


Page 29 of Taguba’s 34-page report‚ available at on the Internet at www.politrix.org/foia/iraq/taguba/html ‚ states that Steven Stephanowicz‚ contract U.S. civilian interrogator‚ CACI‚ 205th Military Intelligence Brigade‚ should be officially reprimanded‚ terminated from his Army job‚ and that his his security clearance be revoked based on the following allegations:

“Made a false statement to the investigating team regarding the locations of his interrogations‚ the activities during his interrogations‚ and his knowledge of abuses.”

“Allowed/and or instructed MPs‚ who were not trained in interrogation techniques‚ to facilitate interrogations by ‘setting conditions’ which were neither authorized and in accordance with applicable regulations/policy. He clearly knew his instructions equated to physical abuse.”

http://www.thereporteronline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11615058&BRD=227 ...


saltara

propaganda and/or...

PR literature touting the money to be made "playing golf" and working as an interrogator for the likes of CACI?

"I got to take the rest of the day off after our long booth time. This gave us a nice evening after dinner to head to the roof and play golf." (quote from Whiskey Bar blog - link below)

"Like his military masters, Ryan is also obsessed with the idea that 'foreign fighters' are responsible for the insurgency in Iraq.... In Joe's world, Fallujah is a city held hostage by foreign terrorists - even though the aftermath of the Marines' withdrawal brought jubilant victory celebrations in the streets.... All this raises the unsettling idea that the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were abused and tortured simply so the idiots at the top of this lunatic enterprise could have their own pet theories falsely confirmed."

http://billmon.org/archives/001457.html

Also, here's an interesting quote to ponder from a right-wing source whose name came up in an article written by Justin Raimondo ("The S&M War" on his site antiwar.com). In an article from October 24, 2003, David Leo Gutmann, a professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at "North-Western university Medical School, in Chicago" writes:

"If we are to defeat terror, a kind of regime change is required: on our campuses, in our press, and in Hollywood. And responses to that need, previously silenced voices are being heard. Organizations like Students for Academic Freedom, FIRE, Campus Watch, ACTA and the National Association of Scholars are fighting the good fight for free speech on our thought-policed campuses; and networks like Fox News are providing pulpits for informed conservative opinion on TV. Perhaps most hopeful of all, a lively and uninhibited blogger's Samizdat offers new internet outlets, unmonitored by the Thought Police, for a new generation of gifted commentators who gleefully and intelligently refute the pious orthodoxies of the pro-jihad Left."

"Shame, Honor and Terror in the Middle East"
by David Leo Gutmann
http://frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=10489

Would Joe's blog do the trick? When did Joe's blog first appear and how widely was it read, quoted, anyone know?

(For more on Gutmann's pet theories and their appearance in a study published by the military, see "The S&M War" on antiwar.com)


seemslikeadream

Steve Stefanowicz

I got to take the rest of the day off after our long booth time. This gave us a nice evening after dinner to head to the roof and play a round of golf. Scott Norman, Jeff Mouton, Steve Hattabaugh, Steve Stefanowicz, and I all took turns trying to hit balls over the back wall and onto the highway. Since the club is a left handed 3 iron, I had an unfair advantage and missed a dump truck by only about ten feet. Not bad since the highway is about 220 yards. We do what we can to make it fun here.

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000856.htm

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=275 .


seemslikeadream

CHAIN OF COMMAND (Sy Hersh New Yorker 5/17)

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.
Issue of 2004-05-17
Posted 2004-05-09
In his devastating report on conditions at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq, Major General Antonio M. Taguba singled out only three military men for praise. One of them, Master-at-Arms William J. Kimbro, a Navy dog handler, should be commended, Taguba wrote, because he “knew his duties and refused to participate in improper interrogations despite significant pressure from the MI”—military intelligence—“personnel at Abu Ghraib.” Elsewhere in the report it became clear what Kimbro would not do: American soldiers, Taguba said, used “military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.”

Taguba’s report was triggered by a soldier’s decision to give Army investigators photographs of the sexual humiliation and abuse of prisoners. These images were first broadcast on “60 Minutes II” on April 28th. Seven enlisted members of the 372nd Military Police Company of the 320th Military Police Battalion, an Army reserve unit, are now facing prosecution, and six officers have been reprimanded. Last week, I was given another set of digital photographs, which had been in the possession of a member of the 320th. According to a time sequence embedded in the digital files, the photographs were taken by two different cameras over a twelve-minute period on the evening of December 12, 2003, two months after the military-police unit was assigned to Abu Ghraib.

more at
http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2

http://newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison_02?fal ...


seemslikeadream

Joe Ryan is likely a witness to

maybe an accomplice to multiple felonies. He should be arrested and taken into custody as soon as he enters the U.S

JCMach1
Link to the almost complete WEBLOG

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000856.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic...