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Lies of Our Times Posted: Monday, June 21, 2004 Haiti After the Press Went Home Bush Administration using torture in U.S. The ghastly court appearance here in Columbus, Ohio, of Nuradin Abdi has underscored the high likelihood that the Bush Administration used variations of torture to break this impoverished Somali immigrant. And his dubious indictment may well have been used to overshadow a campaign visit here by John Kerry. Using, abusing 9/11 fears to set national security policy The Sour Smell of Spoiled Ballots US tactics in raid raise concerns American soldiers stormed into Sajid Kadhum Bouri al-Bawi's house three hours after midnight on May 17, breaking two doors and rousing the dozen children who live there. An hour later, family members recalled, the soldiers led a hooded man from the house and told the family they were arresting Bawi. Only after the soldiers left with what appeared to be a prisoner did Bawi's brother find his bloodied body, shot five times and stuffed behind a refrigerator underneath a pile of mattresses. UK troops accused of mutilating Iraqi bodies Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers mutilated the bodies of Iraqi insurgents after a firefight last month near the southern Iraqi town of Majar al Kabir. Iraq Insurgents Gun Down 4 U.S. Marines Kerry: a Lighter Shade of Bush Court Condones Media Lies Lies of Our Times U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |