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Today's Topics:

  1. Reuters NBC Staff abused by US troops in Iraq - reuters -
     18/05/2004 (Julie-ann Davies)
  2. Powell aide scolded after trying to cut interview -
     washington post - 16/05/2004 (Julie-ann Davies)
  3. The prisoner-abuse scandal at home in the US - Salon -
     10/05/2004 (Julie-ann Davies)


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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:36:19 +0100
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Media-watch] Reuters NBC Staff abused by US troops in Iraq -
 reuters - 18/05/2004
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Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq
Tue May 18, 2:30 PM ET
By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and
subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their
detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said
Tuesday.

The three first told Reuters of the ordeal after their release but only
decided to make it public when the U.S. military said there was no evidence
they had been abused, and following the exposure of similar mistreatment of
detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.


An Iraqi journalist working for U.S. network NBC, who was arrested with the
Reuters staff, also said he had been beaten and mistreated, NBC said
Tuesday.


Two of the three Reuters staff said they had been forced to insert a finger
into their anus and then lick it, and were forced to put shoes in their
mouths, particularly humiliating in Arab culture.


All three said they were forced to make demeaning gestures as soldiers
laughed, taunted them and took photographs. They said they did not want to
give details publicly earlier because of the degrading nature of the abuse.


The soldiers told them they would be taken to the U.S. detention center at
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, deprived them of sleep, placed bags over their
heads, kicked and hit them and forced them to remain in stress positions for
long periods.


The U.S. military, in a report issued before the Abu Ghraib abuse became
public, said there was no evidence the Reuters staff had been tortured or
abused.


Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq (news - web
sites), said in a letter received by Reuters Monday but dated March 5 that
he was confident the investigation had been "thorough and objective" and its
findings were sound.


The Pentagon (news - web sites) has yet to respond to a request by Reuters
Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger to review the military's findings
about the incident in light of the scandal over the treatment of prisoners
at Abu Ghraib.


Asked for comment Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said only:
"There are a number of lines of inquiry under way with respect to prison
operations in Iraq. If during the course of any inquiry, the commander
believes it is appropriate to review a specific aspect of detention, he has
the authority to do so."


The abuse happened at Forward Operating Base Volturno, near Falluja, the
Reuters staff said. They were detained on January 2 while covering the
aftermath of the shooting down of a U.S. helicopter near Falluja and held
for three days, first at Volturno and then at Forward Operating Base St
Mere.


The three -- Baghdad-based cameraman Salem Ureibi, Falluja-based freelance
television journalist Ahmad Mohammad Hussein al-Badrani and driver Sattar
Jabar al-Badrani -- were released without charge on Jan. 5.


"INADEQUATE" INVESTIGATION


"When I saw the Abu Ghraib photographs, I wept," Ureibi said Tuesday. "I saw
they had suffered like we had."


Ureibi, who understands English better than the other two detainees, said
soldiers told him they wanted to have sex with him, and he was afraid he
would be raped.


NBC, whose stringer Ali Muhammed Hussein Ali al-Badrani was detained along
with the Reuters staff, said he reported that a hood was placed over his
head for hours, and that he was forced to perform physically debilitating
exercises, prevented from sleeping and struck and kicked several times.


"Despite repeated requests, we have yet to receive the results of the army
investigation," NBC News Vice President Bill Wheatley said.


Schlesinger sent a letter to Sanchez on January 9 demanding an investigation
into the treatment of the three Iraqis.

The U.S. army said it was investigating and requested further information.
Reuters provided transcripts of initial interviews with the three following
their release, and offered to make them available for interview by
investigators.

A summary of the investigation by the 82nd Airborne Division, dated January
28 and provided to Reuters, said "no specific incidents of abuse were
found." It said soldiers responsible for the detainees were interviewed
under oath and "none admit or report knowledge of physical abuse or
torture."

"The detainees were purposefully and carefully put under stress, to include
sleep deprivation, in order to facilitate interrogation; they were not
tortured," it said. The version received Monday used the phrase "sleep
management" instead.

The U.S. military never interviewed the three for its investigation.

On February 3 Schlesinger wrote to Lawrence Di Rita, special assistant to
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying the investigation was "woefully
inadequate" and should be reopened.

"The military's conclusion of its investigation without even interviewing
the alleged victims, along with other inaccuracies and inconsistencies in
the report, speaks volumes about the seriousness with which the U.S.
government is taking this issue," he wrote.

ABUSE SCANDAL

The U.S. military faced international outrage this month after photographs
surfaced showing U.S. soldiers humiliating and abusing Iraqi detainees at
Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad.

An investigation by Major General Antonio Taguba found that "numerous
incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on
several detainees" in Abu Ghraib.

Seven U.S. soldiers have been charged over the Abu Ghraib abuse and the
first court martial is set for Wednesday.

U.S. officials say the abuse was carried out by a small number of soldiers
and that all allegations of abuse are promptly and thoroughly investigated.





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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 03:07:04 +0100
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Media-watch] Powell aide scolded after trying to cut
 interview - washington post - 16/05/2004
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31020-2004May16.html

Powell Scolds Aide After Interview Botch

The Associated Press
Sunday, May 16, 2004; 3:16 PM


Secretary of State Colin Powell chastised a press aide for trying to cut
short the taping of a television interview Sunday. Powell, speaking from a
Dead Sea resort in Jordan, was listening to a final question from moderator
Tim Russert, who was in the Washington studio of NBC's "Meet the Press."

In the broadcast, aired several hours after the interview was conducted,
Powell abruptly disappears from view. Briefly seen are swaying palm trees
and the water, backdrops for the interview.

Powell can be heard saying to the aide, "He's still asking a question." The
secretary then told Russert, "Tim, I'm sorry I lost you."

NBC identified the aide as Emily Miller, a deputy press secretary.

Russert responded: "I don't know who did that. I think that was one of your
staff, Mr. Secretary." The host added: "I don't think that's appropriate."

With the cameras still on the water, Powell snapped, "Emily get out of the
way." He then instructed the crew to "bring the camera back," and told
Russert to go ahead with the last question.

After Powell answered, Russert thanked the secretary for his "willingness to
overrule his press aide's attempt to abruptly cut off our discussion."

State Department spokeswoman Julie Reside said Powell had scheduled five
interviews, one after another, and that NBC went over the agreed upon time
limit. She said every effort was made to get NBC to finish up, but that
other networks had booked satellite time for interviews with Powell.

The executive producer of "Meet the Press," Betsy Fischer, said Powell was
45 minutes late for the interview and that "everyone's satellite schedules
already had to be rescheduled" anyway.

She said the exchange was not edited out because most taped interviews are
not altered before airing.

Fischer said Miller called right after the taping to "express her displeasur
e" that the interview ran long. Fischer also said Powell called Russert a
few hours later to apologize.

The State Department would not confirm either call or that Miller was the
aide addressed by Powell.


© 2004 The Associated Press




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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:12:30 +0100
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Media-watch] The prisoner-abuse scandal at home in the US -
 Salon - 10/05/2004
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/19/maddy/index.html

The prisoner-abuse scandal at home
The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated
by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad.

By Michelle Goldberg

May 19, 2004 | BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The American guards took Mohamed Maddy's
glasses before they slammed him into the wall. A portly middle-aged father
of two, Maddy was crying, trying to move his shoulder in front of him so it
would take the blow, but they kept smashing him into the concrete, leaving
him with dark purple bruises. Then they told him to strip, and when he
balked at removing his underwear -- "I am Muslim, I can't do it," he said --
they screamed, "Fucking Muslim! Take them off!"

They made him bend over and said, "Take your hand and open your ass." He
sobbed harder as they performed a cavity search. Afterward, they told him to
get dressed and put him in handcuffs and leg irons connected by a chain to
his waist. They ordered him to run and then stepped on his leg chain so he'd
fall down, only to be yanked back up and forced to run again, over and over.
Without his glasses, Maddy couldn't see where he was going, but he thinks he
was running in circles.

Finally he was thrown in a cell. For the first month, the light was left on
24 hours a day. If he tried to shield his eyes and snatch a moment of sleep,
the guards would kick the doors. On the rare occasions when he was taken
out, he was strip-searched, often twice in the same day, even if he hadn't
been out of the guards' sight. Sometimes they did the searches in public.
Sometimes they laughed and jeered. An official report later concluded that
many of these searches had nothing to do with safety -- they were about
punishment and humiliation.

Stories like Maddy's have lately been pouring out of Iraq and Afghanistan,
but he's never been to those countries. Maddy's ordeal took place at the
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where 84 of the 762 Muslim
immigrants who were detained after Sept. 11 were held. The torture there
wasn't nearly as severe as it was at Abu Ghraib, and, according to recent
reports, at Guantánamo in Cuba. But there are striking similarities,
suggesting that what happened in Iraq may be an escalation of a pattern of
human rights violations that began almost as soon as the World Trade Center
crumbled.

In April 2003, as the war in Iraq dominated the headlines, the Justice
Department's Office of the Inspector General issued a 239-page report titled
"The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on
Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11
Attacks." Then, in December, the Inspector General's Office issued a
supplemental 49-page report detailing abuses at the Metropolitan Detention
Center, where Maddy was held. In its May 24 issue, Newsweek revealed that
attorneys for two detainees are pressing to release 300 hours of videotape
that captured the abuses -- tapes that were cited in the reports on the
detention center, but that have never been made public.

As the reports document, prisoners being held at MDC in connection with
Sept. 11 were regularly stripped and sexually humiliated. Prolonged sleep
deprivation was common. Guards regularly slammed inmates against walls.
Several detainees claimed they were also punched and kicked. In Passaic
County Jail, prisoners were menaced with dogs. At several prisons, people
were put in solitary confinement for weeks or even months. They were denied
access to visitors. Many were never charged with any crime.

The reports paint a picture of mass roundups conducted without probable
cause, followed by "prolonged confinement for many detainees, sometimes
under extremely harsh conditions." It lists some of the rather specious
justifications given for classifying people as Sept. 11 detainees. One man
was "arrested, detained on immigration charges, and treated as a September
11 detainee because a person called the FBI to report that the [redacted]
grocery store in which the alien worked, is operated by numerous Middle
Eastern men, 24 hrs -- 7 days a week. Each shift daily has 2 or 3 men ...
Store was closed day after crash, reopened days and evenings. Then later on
opened during midnight hours. Too many people to run a small store."

Something similar seems to have happened in Iraq, where the Red Cross
estimated that between 70 and 90 percent of the inmates at Abu Ghraib were
innocent. On May 5, a U.N. working group on arbitrary detention issued a
statement saying, "According to the information received by the Working
Group, the majority of persons in detention in Iraq have been arrested
during public demonstrations, at checkpoints and in house raids. They are
being considered 'security detainees' or 'suspected of anti-Coalition
activities'. The Working Group's Chairperson-Rapporteur is seriously
disturbed by the fact that these persons have not been granted access to a
court to be able to challenge the lawfulness of their detention, as required
by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."

Policies of arbitrary detention often lead to coercive interrogation and
abuse, says David Cole, professor of law at Georgetown University and author
of "Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on
Terrorism." In both America and Iraq, he says, "the approach was to sweep
broadly, to pick people up on little or no evidence other than their
religious or ethnic identity. That process puts a premium on interrogation
because the whole idea is that we don't know who the bad guys are, so your
job as an interrogator is to find out who they are through interrogation.
When they say we don't know anything about it, it's going to put pressure on
interrogators to use coercive methods. Anytime you abandon the presumption
of innocence and adopt a broad, sweeping detention policy
, it's going to lead to questionable interrogation tactics."

It's not clear whether the guards in Brooklyn and those in Baghdad adopted
similar tactics independently, or whether they were acting under similar
orders. As Seymour Hersh has reported in the New Yorker, the Defense
Department authorized policies in Guantánamo and Iraq that were designed to
enable interrogations. According to Hersh, they included sexual humiliation,
sleep deprivation, "exposure to extremes of cold and heat, and placing
prisoners in 'stress positions' for agonizing lengths of time."

Milder versions of these methods were employed at MDC, but there's no
evidence that guards there were acting under orders from federal officials.
Still, says Cole, "[R]eports of [abuse] are so consistent among domestic
detainees that it seems it must have been a policy choice. Assuming the best
of the policy makers, would assume they're doing it for interrogation
purposes."

Regardless of who ordered the abuse, prison officials were operating under
loosened legal constraints that encouraged mistreatment. "There was a
perception of guilt imposed in both cases," says Nancy Chang, senior
litigation attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Those detained
in America, like those in Guantánamo and Iraq, "were abused as enemy
combatants or potential enemy combatants. They were treated quite
differently from regular prisoners. They were placed under the most extreme
conditions of confinement without any prior determination that they posed a
danger."

In both the United States and Iraq, the tactics were similar, even if the
severity was not.

Images of the abuse at Abu Ghraib have forced Mohamed Maddy to relive the
eight months he spent in American prisons, and especially the months he
spent at the special housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center. "I
can see that it is almost the same," he writes in an e-mail from Cairo,
where he's lived with his two sons since being deported in May 2002. "[W]e
were all pushed viciously against the wall, hands tied behind back, chains
on both legs, lots of hits on the face and the rest of the body, severe
humiliation like I never saw before, they were cursing us almost every
minute of the day and prevented us from sleeping. In brief, the treatment
was very inhuman and against all human rights and ethics."

Of course, this may sound like the hyperbole of a traumatized man, but the
inspector general's report on conditions at MDC confirm most of what he
says. "[W]e concluded that it was inappropriate for staff members in the
ADMAX SHU [Administrative Maximum Special Housing Unit] to routinely film
strip searches showing the detainees naked, and that on occasion staff
members inappropriately used strip searches to intimidate and punish
detainees," the report says. It cites videotapes of the strip searches in
which the voices of female officers can clearly be heard, confirming
detainees' reports that they were stripped
in front of women. On some tapes, the report says, "staff members laughed,
exchanged suggestive looks and made funny noises before and during strip
searches."

The report also found evidence of routine physical abuse. "[W]e concluded,
based on videotape evidence, detainees' statements, witnesses' observations,
and staff members who corroborated some allegations of abuse, that some MDC
staff members slammed and bounced detainees into the walls at the MDC and
inappropriately pressed detainees' heads against walls," the report says.
"We also found that some officers inappropriately twisted and bent
detainees' arms, hands, wrists, and fingers, and caused them unnecessary
physical pain; inappropriately carried or lifted detainees; and raised or
pulled detainees' arms in painful ways. In addition, we believe some
officers improperly used handcuffs, occasionally stepped on compliant
detainees' leg restraint chains, and were needlessly forceful and rough with
the detainees -- all conduct that violates [Bureau of Prisons] policy."

There were also numerous reports that, in addition to the lights being left
on in the cell for 24 hours a day, officers went out of their way to keep
detainees awake. "For example, one detainee claimed that officers kicked the
doors non-stop in order to keep the detainees from sleeping," the inspector
general's report says. "He stated that for the first two or three weeks he
was at the MDC, one of the officers walked by about every 15 minutes
throughout the night, kicked the doors to wake up the detainees, and yelled
things such as, 'Motherfuckers,' 'Assholes,' and 'Welcome to America.' ...
Another detainee said that officers would not let the detainees sleep during
the day or night from the time he arrived at the MDC in the beginning of
October through mid-November 2001."

Almost all the 9/11 prisoners at MDC were being held for interrogation, not
because police had any evidence connecting them to terrorism. Maddy was one
of the few in the unit who had actually committed a crime -- while working
for a passenger services company at JFK airport, he had smuggled his wife
and sons into the country.

Today, Maddy lives in a cacophonous Cairo suburb where car horns compete
with mournful Arab pop singers and small boys driving donkey carts clatter
down dusty side streets. He's a hospitable man who cooks me a dinner of
grilled chicken and Greek salad while his teenage sons, Eslam and Karim,
play a James Bond video game on their Xbox and listen to the soundtrack from
Eminem's "8 Mile." Friendly as he is, though, he can't hide a sadness that's
made him lose interest in everything in the world except his boys and his
misfortunes.

In prison, he was questioned "six, seven or eight times," he says, usually
about how often he went to the mosque and whether he knows any "bad people
in the USA." Not being a radical man -- he has a picture of Bill Clinton
hanging on the wall of his Cairo apartment -- he was
little help. "I tell them the truth, but they say, 'You are liar,'" he
says.

Indeed, several detainees say it was their professions of innocence that led
to weeks of solitary confinement and other torments.

Khaled Betar, 34, is a happy-go-lucky blue-eyed bachelor from Amman, Jordan,
whose friends know him as a bit of a womanizer. Radical Islam holds no
attraction for him -- he's an agnostic who tends to see both his Arab and
Muslim identity as an accident of birth. The first time he prayed to Allah
was when he was thrown in prison by FBI agents who accused him of membership
in al-Qaida.

Before arriving in America, Betar spent time working in both South Africa
and Hamburg, Germany. He traveled to America in April 2001 for the same
reason many immigrants do -- to earn money. A Jordanian family he knew owned
a gas station in Stony Point, N.Y., and they gave him a job that paid around
$2,000 a month -- nearly 10 times what he could make at home.

Betar had a six-month tourist visa that was still valid in late September
2001, when FBI agents showed up at his apartment to question him. "They
asked me if I know any people who give speeches in the mosque, if I'm
religious or not," he says. "They spoke to me for, like, half an hour and
they asked me about my passport. I showed them my visa." The visa would
expire in a week.

Knowing that, the agents waited 10 days before visiting Betar again. When
they returned, there were two immigration agents with them. "They told me,
your visa expired and you have to go with us to the detention," he says.

Betar would spend the next nine months in Passaic County Jail, where he was
held as a material witness to the Sept. 11 attacks. "He was never charged
with terrorism, never charged with being a threat to national security,"
says his attorney, Sin Yen Ling of the Asian American Legal Defense and
Education Fund. "There were never any formal charges."

But there were many interrogations. Seven of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers spent
time in Hamburg, a city with a Muslim population of 130,000. Betar had lived
there, too, and investigators were convinced there was a connection.

During his first interview, there were four FBI agents. They showed him
pictures of some of the hijackers, and asked if he knew them. "They told me
one of the hijackers was in Germany," he says. "They said, 'How come you are
Muslim and you don't know this guy?' That's what they told me! I told them,
man, I can't know every Muslim!"

A few weeks later, the agents asked him if he would take a polygraph. He
readily agreed, but after hours of questioning, he was told that he failed
(he's never seen the transcript, and it wasn't given to his attorney).
Several days later, he was given a second polygraph. Again, he was told that
he failed, and he was taken to the hole. The guard told Betar he was acting
on the FBI's orders.

"I was in a small cell. It's closed. There was an iron bed and mattress and
blanket, that's all that you have. I stayed there 24 days. All the time,
they keep the light on. Every day they came with dogs. The dogs made noise.
Every day they took me from the room to search me. I'm in the room, how can
I get anything?"

When he returned to the prison's general population after 24 days, "It was
like a paradise for me," he says. "You can't imagine. The hole is terrible.
It was the worst 24 days of my life. They make you crazy, really."

There was pressure, he says, to admit to some role in Sept. 11. "They just
want me to say I know one of these people," he says. "They want anybody. If
you are innocent, it doesn't matter for them. They just want to put anybody
in the jail, to show people that they are working. If this happened in
Syria, Iraq, it's normal, but in America it's different, really."

Eventually, though, the FBI cleared Betar of any terrorist ties, and he was
deported back to Jordan.

A resilient man, Betar seems to have largely put his ordeal behind him.
"Now, I'm all right," he says in Amman, where he and a friend have started a
business selling nuts. "Sometimes you remember, you get depressed, but I'm
normal now. I'm OK."

Maddy, who's found a job as an Internet marketing manager for a Cairo
tourism company, hasn't done as well. He has memory lapses and trouble
concentrating. "Sometimes at my job, it goes in my mind, everything that
happened in the USA. I get nervous and have to leave what I'm doing. Never I
forget. Everything's like videotape. I remember even when I'm sleeping. I
don't feel safe when I'm sleeping. I don't feel good about my life." He
wants to sue the Justice Department, but knows little about the American
legal system, and isn't sure where to look for a lawyer to represent him pro
bono.

When the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, something further seemed to break in him.
Shortly after the first pictures of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqis were
published, he fired off an uncharacteristic message full of profanity and
rage. "How much the American people hate the Muslim people!" he writes.
"[W]e hate the stupid Bush and I will be happy when he go to the hell in
November and I want tell him go, not come back. Fuck you Bush and your
government."

Two days later, he was mortified by his outburst. "I would like to express
my apology for using an inappropriate language, but I have bitter feelings
that squeeze my heart and soul," he writes in a second e-mail. "It sounds
like it is a policy for the American government to treat Arabs, especially
Muslims, as bad as they can, and it is totally untrue that the behavior was
individual incidents carried [out] by several guards."

"What I have saw with the Iraqi people made me feel very sick. It was really
disgusting and made me review all that happened to me," he says.

Maddy wasn't terribly religious before, but in prison he moved closer to
God, he says. Now, he fantasizes about suing the United States for what it
put him through, and using the money to build a big mosque, white, with a
green light shining from the minaret.

But first, he says, "I will give some money to my sons, so they don't need
to go to the USA."





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