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Spanish judge launches new torture probe of Bush officials - World Socialist Web Site
Spanish judge launches new torture probe of Bush officials
World Socialist Web Site, MI - Paul Mitchell, Chris Marsden
He wrote that previously classified Bush Justice Department memos released last month by the Obama administration indicated the existence of a torture program at the US prison at Bagram air base in Afghanistan as well as at Guantánamo that had been ...
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Airmen mobilize to confront Afghan insurgency - Arctic Sentry
Airmen mobilize to confront Afghan insurgency
Arctic Sentry, AK - Shawn J. Jones, Shawn J. Jones
by Staff Sgt. Shawn J. Jones 4/30/2009 - SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, NC (AFNS) -- More than a dozen F-15E Strike Eagles, two DC-10s and a C-17 Globemaster III met the rising sun over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, ...
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Torture, State Secrets and Spanish Prosecution - Institute for Public Accuracy (press release)
Torture, State Secrets and Spanish Prosecution
Institute for Public Accuracy (press release), DC
The denial of the rule of law and the abuse of detainees continues at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan." In his news conference last night, Obama claimed regarding state secret cases: "we don't have the time to effectively think through" the issue. ...
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4/30 Major Demo/Arrest Action @ White House Demand Torture ... - Bay Area Indymedia
4/30 Major Demo/Arrest Action @ White House Demand Torture ...
Bay Area Indymedia, CA
The April 30th demonstration will highlight a final theme of the 100 Days Campaign: the continued denial of the rule of law and abuse of detainees under the Obama administration at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The DOJ recently indicated it will ...
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United Fight: Vehicle Maintainers Travel Rough Road - Systems
United Fight: Vehicle Maintainers Travel Rough Road
Systems, GA - Stacia Zachary
This program essentially opens a work order on a vehicle, forwards the problem up to headquarters at Bagram Air Field and places an order for the parts required to fix the vehicle. "This was a challenge simply because it is a system separate to how the ...
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At Home in Guantánamo Bay - The Guatemala Times
At Home in Guantánamo Bay
The Guatemala Times, Guatemala
Instead, they drove me to Bagram Air Base and handed me over to the Americans stationed there. I found out later that the Americans were offering bounties of several thousand dollars for Taliban and "foreign fighters." At first, I was happy to be in ...
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Declassified DOD Documents Say Detainees Killed During Interrogations - The Public Record
Declassified DOD Documents Say Detainees Killed During Interrogations
The Public Record, California
The documents state that the interrogation and deaths of detainees held at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan was “clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance.” “We suspected that these two pages [from the ...
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United Fight: Combat Medics Provide Aid, Support to PRT Mission - Systems
United Fight: Combat Medics Provide Aid, Support to PRT Mission
Systems, GA - Stacia Zachary
On one mission traveling to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, the medics and security forces element were traveling in mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles for a supply run. It was the dead of night, visibility was limited and travel was slow. ...
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How much has really changed? - Socialist Worker Online
How much has really changed?
Socialist Worker Online, IL - Sharon Smith
But detainees imprisoned at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan still can't challenge their confinement. On health care, remember all of the time spent on the minor differences between Obama's plan and Hillary Clinton's plan during the election campaign ...
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OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE GEITHNER - KFSM
OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE GEITHNER
KFSM, AR
What's more, unlike with Guantanamo, Obama has adopted Bush's policies regarding the enemy prisoners being held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. -- Torture accountability. Obama has said he wants to look forward and not back, ...
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POLITICS-US: Rights Groups Still Waiting for Obama to Deliver - Inter Press Service
POLITICS-US: Rights Groups Still Waiting for Obama to Deliver
Inter Press Service, Italy
And she questioned the wisdom of the administration's position that detainees at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detention. She also cautioned that there are a number of "unknowns", including the issue of what to ...
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The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush's Torture Programs - OpEdNews
The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush's Torture Programs
OpEdNews, PA
The Senate Armed Services Committee meticulously documents the abuses that were chronicled at Abu Ghraib, Bagram Air Base, and other sites and links them directly to techniques that were approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other senior ...
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Activists to protest torture, Guantanamo outside White House - Axis of Logic
Activists to protest torture, Guantanamo outside White House
Axis of Logic, MA
“President Obama has been reluctant to investigate possible, past crimes, and many of the immoral and illegal policies of the Bush administration — from the denial of habeas rights at Bagram Air Base, to the continued detention of innocent men in ...
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FIRST 100 DAYS - AlterNet
FIRST 100 DAYS
AlterNet, CA
President Obama has been reluctant to investigate possible, past crimes, and many of the immoral and illegal policies of the Bush administration -- from the denial of habeas rights at Bagram Air Base, to the continued detention of innocent men in ...
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Civil Disobedience at White House - RINF.COM
Civil Disobedience at White House
RINF.COM, UK
President Obama has been reluctant to investigate possible, past crimes, and many of the immoral and illegal policies of the Bush administration — from the denial of habeas rights at Bagram Air Base, to the continued detention of innocent men in ...
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Spanish judge orders Guantanamo probe - CNN
Spanish judge orders Guantanamo probe
CNN
The alleged plan at Guantanamo and other prisons, including a detention facility at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, "acquire almost an official level and therefore generate penal responsibility in the different structures of execution -- command, ...
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FIRST 100 DAYS - AlterNet
FIRST 100 DAYS
AlterNet, CA
President Obama has been reluctant to investigate possible, past crimes, and many of the immoral and illegal policies of the Bush administration -- from the denial of habeas rights at Bagram Air Base, to the continued detention of innocent men in ...
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Halvorson back from visit to Afghanistan - Southtown Star
Halvorson back from visit to Afghanistan
Southtown Star, IL
Halvorson's trip to Afghanistan included stops at the US embassy in Kabul and military hospitals in Jalalabad , Kalagush and Bagram Air Base. It included a ride in a Blackhawk helicopter, a night in the barracks at Bagram that Halvorson confessed made ...
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Amnesty: Obama sends mixed message on human rights - The Associated Press
Amnesty: Obama sends mixed message on human rights
The Associated Press
Amnesty also points out that Obama has not changed the US policy on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where hundreds of detainees are thought to be held with no access to the outside world. "The closure of Guantanamo must mark the end of the policies and ...
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Soldiers Bring Light to Afghan Marketplace - Systems
Soldiers Bring Light to Afghan Marketplace
Systems, GA
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - A busy marketplace is a common sight in the city of Nangalam during the day, but as night falls, the lack of electricity turns the bustling Konar province commercial center into a ghost town. "By 6 pm all the shops would ...
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