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Showing posts with label Abu Ghraib. Show all posts
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December 29, 2015

2013 - Abu Ghraib & Other Captive Torture Iraq - US Govt Contractor to Pay Tortured Captives

Article
SOURCE
Archived News - 2013


Times of Israel 
/ AP  - 2013

Summary:

Engility Holdings Inc
Chantilly, Virginia, USA
US government defence contractor

lawsuit:  conspiring to torture detainees
at:   Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

Paid $5.28 million
to 71 former inmates held Abu Ghraib
(& at other US-run detention sites)
between 2003 and 2007

L-3 Services Inc.
(now an Engility subsidiary)
provided translators to US military in Iraq
over  6,000 translators in Iraq
(at $450 million per annum contract)

CACI International Inc.
Arlington, Virginia, USA
(another US government defence contractor)
case expected to go on trial

  • each of the 71 Iraqis received a portion

Torture - Iraq
  • mock execution (trigger pulling)
  • wall slammed until unconscious
  • stripped, bound (chain) & hooded, threatened with rape
  • forced to consume so much water, vomited blood
  • several captives raped & beaten
  • kept naked extended periods of time

2003 to 2006
USA Defence Department
paid $30.9 million to Iraqi & Afghan civilians

re killings, injuries, property damage
due to US or coalition forces' military actions


US government is immune from lawsuits
stemming from combatant activities of the military at war



2013 - Times of Israel:

"Courts are still sorting out whether contractors in a war zone should be accorded legal immunity from being sued, just as the government is immune."

In its defense four years ago against the lawsuit, L-3 said the fact that the claims in the case “cannot be brought against the government means that they also cannot be brought against L-3.”

No court in the United States has allowed aliens — detained on the battlefield or in the course of postwar occupation and military operations by the US military — to seek damages for their detention,” the company told the federal court four years ago. “Yet these plaintiffs bring claims seeking money damages for their detention and treatment while in the custody of the US military in the midst of a belligerent occupation in Iraq.”

Allowing the case to proceed “would require a wholly unprecedented injection of the judiciary into wartime military operations and occupation conduct against the local population, in particular the conditions of confinement and interrogation for intelligence gathering,” L-3 added.



http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-defense-contractor-pays-over-5-million-to-ex-abu-ghraib-inmates/



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COMMENT

The Iraqi torture victims didn't receive much:  $5.28 million between 71 victims is peanuts.

Maybe the whole of Iraq should mount a class action lawsuit and get restitution for decades, seeing the entire Iraq war was illegal.

If the US cannot be sued re 'war' military actions, why have US taxpayers paid:  $30.9 million to Afghans and Iraqis?

And check out the $450-million American taxpayer money that went to the interpreters.

And let's not forget the 2010 monthly costs borne by the American taxpayer, that's in the BILLIONS (and, no, that's not a typo):

February 2010
Cost of War to USA Taxpayers
  • Afghanistan - $6.7 billion per month
  • Iraq - $5.5 billion per month


Bankers must love war

USA debt clock:

Over $18 Trillion dollars payable to bankers
by US taxpayers for generations ahead

More US debt clocks:




*I think that's 'trillions' ... but I'm no good at reading big numbers.




GIF - Free Assange


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Melinda Taylor, Lawyer
Geneva Press Club
26 January 2015


How Is Julian Assange being detained?

"Now, if you're in a castle surrounded by a moat with crocodiles, obviously you're free to leave if you're willing to swim across that moat and get eaten by crocodiles.

Similarly, as a matter of law and as Señor Garzon said, it's very clear under the European Court of Human Rights, it's very clear under the Human Rights Commission and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, you cannot be compelled to put your life at risk [and] you cannot be compelled to give up a fundamental right such as a right of asylum.

For this reason, for example, if you have asylum seekers in an airport, who are trying to claim asylum:  yes, they can go back to where they came, but if they have to stay there for months or years, while their asylum application is being processed, that can be detention, because it's not a real choice to leave and expose yourself to a risk of persecution, a risk of harm, or a risk of torture.

And that is exactly what would happen to Mr Assange:  the day he steps outside that door, he exposes himself of a risk of extradition to the united States, where he will face an unfair and illegal investigation.  He will face a similar fate to Chelsea Manning, who was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment, and that's just not a choice.

So, yes, he is detained."

SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qILMyxer80



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Journalist
Editor, WikiLeaks


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August 22, 2015

PageLink - Gen Stanley A. McChrystal


Gen Stanley A. McChrystal

"known for saying and thinking what other military leaders were afraid to"

*one of the reasons cited for his appointment*
to lead all forces in Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN post
fm:  June 15, 2009 - June 23, 2010
Defence Secretary Robert Gates:

"perhaps the finest warrior and leader of men in combat I (have) ever met."
Last assignment:
  • Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
  • Commander, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)
  • Director, Joint Staff fm Aug 2008 - Jun 2009
  • Commander, Joint Special Operations Command fm 2003 - 2008
*criticized for alleged role in cover-up of the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident.
reportedly:
unflattering (and unprofessional) remarks about Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials

attributed to McChrystal and his aides in a Rolling Stone article
McChrystal recalled to Washington, DC
Obama accepted his resignation as commander in Afghanistan
ISAF COMMAND - Afghanistan

assumed by:
deputy commander, British Army General Sir Nicholas "Nick" Parker
{ pending the confirmation of a replacement }
General David Petraeus = McChrystal's replacement

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serving in the Pentagon as member of the Joint Staff, start of Iraq War in March 2003
{vice director of operations, J-3, since July 2002}

McChrystal
delivered nationally televised Pentagon briefings on US military operations in Iraq

April 2003 shortly after the fall of Baghdad:
announced, "I would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over."

Commanded the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for five (5) years
Sep 2003 to Feb 2006
Commander, Joint Special Operations Command/ Commander, Joint Special Operations Command Forward, fm Feb 2006 to Aug 2008

Most of assignment in Afghanistan
at US Central Command forward headquarters in Qatar & in Iraq
{nominally assigned Fort Bragg, Nth Carolina}

Success: capture by JSOC forces of Saddam Hussein in December 2003

McChrystal's Zarqawi unit, Task Force 6-26
= well known for interrogation methods, Camp Nama
= accused of abusing detainees
= taskforce disciplined after Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal became public in April 2004

criticized for his role in aftermath of 2004 death by friendly fire of Ranger and former professional football player Pat Tillman.

McChrystal
= one of eight officers recommended for discipline by a subsequent Pentagon investigation.

= Army declined to take action against him.

late spring 2007
JSOC and CIA Special Activities Division teams launch new series of highly effective covert operations that coincided with the Iraq War troop surge of 2007

killing or capturing many of the key al-Qa'ida leaders in Iraq

joint efforts of JSOC and CIA paramilitary units said to be: most significant contributor to the defeat of al-Qa'ida in Iraq

McChrystal credited with
= transforming and modernizing JSOC
= into a "force of unprecedented agility & lethality"
= key factor success of JSOC in success of war Iraq

George W. Bush
failed to promote McChrystal
assigned 3-star: Dir. Joint Staff, Feb 2008

Senate Armed Services Committee
stalled McChystal confirmation
more info sought: alleged mistreatment detainees by Special Ops under McChrystal command in IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN
June 10, 2009
Senate approval to take command
McChrystal was promoted to general
assumed command of NATO ops
Operation Khanjar commenced
largest offensive op and beginning of deadliest combat month for NATO forces since 2001

LEAKED REPORT
McChrystal
submitted a 66-page report to Defense Secretary Robert Gates calling for more troops in Afghanistan
"We are going to win."
public: Sept 20, 2009

*warned that the war Afghanistan may be lost if more troops are not sent

*30,000 - 40,000 more troops needed in Afghanistan

Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq (Scott Ritter)
stated McChrystal:
should be fired for insubordination for disclosing info he should have said only in private to the President of USA

leaked report - aka the "McChrystal risk"
boxed Obama into a corner about boosting troop levels in Afghanistan

MICHAEL HASTINGS
freelance journalist
Article: "The Runaway General",
Rolling Stone magazine, July 8–22, 2010 issue

McChrystal and his staff reportedly mocked:

*civilian government officials
*Joe Biden
*National Security Advisor James L. Jones
*US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry
*Special Representative for Afghanistan & Pakistan Richard Holbrooke

McChrystal's staff
= contacted prior to release of article and did not deny validity of the article

= Hastings: bemused at degree to which soldiers were free when speaking to him

= senior members of his staff dispute this
= accused Hastings of exaggerating seniority of aides quoted & breaking the "off the record" trust of private conversations
McChrystal
apology to Joe Biden:

"I extend my sincerest apology for this profile."

McChyristal called in by Obama
= McChrystal tendered his resignation | Obama accepted

Obama statement re resignation:
"... certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military and for our country."

WHITEHOUSE - 4-STAR RANK
WH announced that McChrystal would retain his four-star rank in retirement
{law generally requires a four-star officer to hold his rank for three years in order to retain it in retirement}

RETIREMENT CEREMONY
McChrystal awarded the:
  • Distinguished Service Medal
by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey
  • Defence Distinguished Service Medal
by Secretary of Defence Robert Gates
PENTAGON INQUIRY
Pentagon report
= challenged accuracy of article "The Runaway General" (Michael Hastings)
= disputing key incidents or comments reported in Hastings' article.

Rolling Stone:
= "... Pentagon’s inspector general offers no credible source—or indeed, any named source—contradicting the facts as reported in our story, 'The Runaway General."

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At Yale University faculty, teaching courses in International Relations
Chairman of the Board of Siemens Government Systems

On the strategic advisory board of Knowledge International
a licensed arms dealer whose parent company is EAI
a business "very close" to UAE govt

co-founded / partner
McChrystal Group LLC
Alexandria, Virginia-based consulting firm

2011 - advocated instituting a national service program in USA

2013 - endorsed stronger US gun control laws
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OTHER

McChrystal is the son of Major General Herbert Joseph McChrystal, Jr. (1924–2013)

Entirely military family / and married into military family

McChrystal
said to:
  • run 11-13 km daily
  • eat one meal per day
  • sleep four hours a night

source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal
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COMMENT

I know this isn't PC, but ... 

Ummmm, I sort of like the sound of McChrystal (on first impressions).

Seems strong, tough, and forthright.
Sounds like some kind of superman.  Swoon ... lol