December 21, 2004 | 9 Dhu-l-Qidah 1425 Hijriah
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The ClipboardJustice's new image
Three ideas about justice are fundamentally American: Every person is born with rights the government cannot take away unfairly; no one, not even the president, is above the law; America is a beacon for freedom and the rule of law...
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The ClipboardDisgraced by Silence
The cascading allegations of prisoner abuse, of which these are but a few examples, long ago demolished the president's claim that only a few bad apples were responsible. So did reports that soldiers and officers who complained to their superiors...
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veiled4allah'We have so much in common'
"Behold! The angels said: 'O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and in (the company of)...
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The Clipboard56 Percent in Survey Say Iraq War Was a Mistake
President Bush heads into his second term amid deep and growing public skepticism about the Iraq war, with a solid majority saying for the first time that the war was a mistake and most people believing that Defense Secretary Donald...
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The ClipboardACLU: President authorized torture
An FBI document suggests the president authorized inhumane interrogation methods against Iraqi detainees, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday. The document is among those obtained from the government by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in...
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The ClipboardTorture: Shock, Awe and the Human Body
The United States has never before officially practiced torture. It was not deemed necessary in order to defeat Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Its indirect costs are enormous: in their effect on the national reputation, their alienation of international opinion,...
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The ClipboardHow we really could support troops
Stuck behind a Hummer in a convoy of holiday shoppers, I found myself wondering what the driver had in mind when he put three of those now-ubiquitous support-our-troops vinyl ribbons on the billboard-sized tailgate of his gas hog. Is he...
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The ClipboardFBI Claims More Arab Prisoners Abused
FBI agents are increasingly complaining about what they consider abusive physical and mental torture by military officials against prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, including lighted cigarettes stuck in detainees' ears and Arab captives being humiliated with Israeli flags wrapped...
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The ClipboardNew jail abuse allegations hit US
Fresh allegations have emerged of serious mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by US military personnel. Documents detailing abuses, some dated months after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, were released as part of a legal case against the US government. Others allege...
