AP – A commission investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending has found serious deficiencies in training and equipment for hundreds of Ugandan guards hired to protect U.S. military bases in Iraq, The Associated Press has learned. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon will soon release “hundreds” of photographs showing alleged abuse by US personnel of “war on terror” detainees during the Bush administration, a US official said Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday travels to a military base in North Carolina to visit US Marines preparing for combat against insurgents in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and quickly authorized at high levels of the US government, a Senate investigation has found. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The CIA’s harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda detainees provided “valuable” information but are not needed to keep America safe, the US intelligence chief said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Pentagon chief Robert Gates on Thursday urged Congress to support his proposed defense budget, warning against wasteful spending that he said would come at the expense of soldiers on the frontline of the Afghan war. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – It will take Iraq “considerable” time to finish putting down extremists, General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the region said Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
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