Members phkrause Posted August 4, 2023 Members Share Posted August 4, 2023 Abu Ghraib Contractor Torture Case Likely Heading to Trial After US Judge's Order "The ruling has cleared the way, almost 20 years hence, for our clients to tell their story in open court," said the legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed suit on behalf of detainees. https://www.commondreams.org/news/caci-abu-ghraib? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 12 Author Members Share Posted April 12 20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in court Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world. Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment. Read more. Key points: The defendant in the civil suit, CACI, supplied the interrogators who worked at the prison. The plaintiffs seek to hold CACI responsible for setting the conditions that resulted in the torture they endured. CACI, though, has said the U.S. military is the institution that bears responsibility for the conditions at Abu Ghraib. There is little dispute that the abuse was horrific. The photos released in 2004 showed naked prisoners stacked into pyramids or dragged by leashes, a soldier smiling and giving a thumbs up while posing next to a corpse and detainees being hooded and attached to electrical wires. The U.S. government may present a wild card in the trial. Both the plaintiffs and CACI have complained that their cases have been hampered by government assertions that some evidence, if made public, would harm national security. Government lawyers have said they will be at the trial ready to object if witnesses stray into territory they deem to be a state secret. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Biden to host Iraqi leader with talks underway on winding down coalition against the Islamic State 20 years after the United States invaded Iraq, Iraqis are still trying to emigrate to the US Death and suffering in Iraq a painful legacy of 9/11 attacks Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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