The New Yorker on the torture at Abu Ghraib
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Medical professionals complicit in Abu
Ghraib torture, says bioethicist
Medical professionals complicit in Abu
Ghraib torture, says bioethicist
08/20/2004 01:08 AMDr. Stephen Miles wrote a scathing editorial for UK medical journal
The Lancet which says that U.S. military medical personnel were
complicit in detainee torture incidents that took place in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to the University of
Minnesota bioethicist, "The US military medical system failed to
protect detainees' human rights, sometimes collaborated with
interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report
injuries or deaths caused by beatings." Based on data gleaned from
government documents, he details cases of alleged abuse participation
by medical personnel, and calls for a formal inquiry.
There are isolated reports that medical personnel directly
abused detainees. Two detainees' depositions describe an incident
where a doctor allowed a medically untrained guard to suture a
prisoner's lacertation from being beaten. The medical system failed to
accurately report illnesses and injuries. Abu Ghraib authorities did
not notify families of deaths, sicknesses, or transfers to medical
facilities as required by the Convention. A medic inserted a
intravenous catheter into the corpse of a detainee who died under
torture in order to create evidence that he was alive at the hospital.
In another case, an Iraqi man, taken into custody by US soldiers was
found months later by his family in an Iraqi hospital. He was
comatose, had three skull fractures, a severe thumb fracture, and
burns on the bottoms of his feet. An accompanying US medical report
stated that heat stroke had triggered a heart attack that put him in a
coma; it did not mention the injuries.
Death certificates of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq were falsified
or their release or completion was delayed for months. Medical
investigators either failed to investigate unexpected deaths of
detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan or performed cursory evaluations and
physicians routinely attributed detainee deaths on death certificates
to heart attacks, heat stroke, or natural causes without noting the
unnatural aetiology of the death. In one example, soldiers tied a
beaten detainee to the top of his cell door and gagged him. The death
certificate indicated that he died of "natural causes . . . during his
sleep." After news media coverage, the Pentagon revised the
certificate to say that the death was a "homicide" caused by "blunt
force injuries and asphyxia."
Link to Miles' editorial in the
August 21 edition of
The Lancet (registration required; o
bugmenot, where foreart thou?).
Link to
Washington Post story with partial synopsis of
the report.
Link to
Miles' home page at the University of Minnesota Bioethics school, and
Link
to his latest book,
The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of
Medicine, which looks like a worthy read.
The administration and its Republican
allies have settled on a way to deflect
attention from the torture of prisoners
at Abu Ghraib
The administration and its Republican
allies have settled on a way to deflect
attention from the torture of prisoners
at Abu Ghraib
05/13/2004 05:05 AMan absurd tantrum-cum-editorial like this one: .. Meanwhile,
Republican's spin .. NY
Times
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Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
06/12/2004 04:45 AMSeymour Hersh Talks of Child Torture, Looks Frightened .. The scariest
part .. getting E-mail .. How low? ..
Click
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"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
06/08/2004 08:23 PMThieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
Thieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
05/06/2004 10:04 AMBush Privately Chides Rumsfeld (washingtonpost.com) .. The Washington
Post
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More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
05/06/2004 04:44 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5623-2004May5.html
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Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
06/04/2004 03:58 PM
Torture and Truth
and
The
Logic of Torture--Mark Danner writes about
Article 15-6
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba
Report) and
Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of
War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation in the former and
concludes thusly in the latter:
Behind the exotic
brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple
tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and
months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple
truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that
since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United
States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in
Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been
torturing prisoners. (More Within) The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report br
The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report br
05/03/2004 09:26 AMalbasrah.net/images/iraqi-pow/iraqi-pow
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"The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report..."
"The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report..."
05/03/2004 03:25 PM"the New Yorker"
"the New Yorker"
12/03/2003 04:08 AM"The New Yorker"
"The New Yorker"
01/08/2004 07:18 PMThe New Yorker
The New Yorker
02/12/2004 09:57 AMContract Sport: What did the Vice-President do for Halliburton? ..
Dick Cheney's relationship with Halliburton .. comprehensive
piece
newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040216fa_fact
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New Yorker on Dorkbot
New Yorker on Dorkbot
06/02/2004 06:28 PMDorkbot, a group of "people doing strange things with electricity"
that meets in various cities worldwide, was profiled in this recent
New Yorker story:
Dorkbot was founded by a young man
named Douglas Repetto, who teaches computer music at Columbia. "The
idea of dorkbot was to reach people who had nowhere to talk about
these projects," Repetto says. "Some might appear in a gallery,
perhaps, but many are too odd, or they're unfinished, or it's not even
clear what they are." Dorkbot presentations typically feature novel
ways of using electrical devices, especially uses that don't require
much money. "Dorkbot is about what you can do on the cheap in a back
room somewhere," he says. The name encourages humility.
Linknew yorker on boondocks
new yorker on boondocks
04/13/2004 02:17 PMi loves me some McGruder
The New Yorker: From the Archives
The New Yorker: From the Archives
12/22/2004 01:05 AM“A Visit from Saint Nicholas (In the Ernest Hemingway
Manner)” ..
FICTION
newyorker.com/archive/content/?031222fr_archive01
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New Yorker on Obama, from May
New Yorker on Obama, from May
07/28/2004 12:58 PMa good profile, if you're not familiar with him
The New Yorker: Fact
The New Yorker: Fact
11/11/2003 04:42 AMWesley Clark's Celebrated—and Controversial—military Career (Long, But
Gives Insight Into Why So Many Military People Don't Like Clark) ..
Peter J. Boyer interviews asshat brasshat Wesley Clark .. New Yorker
profile .. lunghissimo
pezzo
newyorker.com/fact/content/?031117fa_fact
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"The New Yorker: Fact"
"The New Yorker: Fact"
05/04/2004 09:00 PM"New Yorker article"
"New Yorker article"
08/06/2004 04:36 AM"Hersh's New Yorker piece"
"Hersh's New Yorker piece"
05/07/2004 03:29 AMThe New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs
The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs
07/19/2004 06:22 PMAs a quick-thinking senatorial aide switched on the Senate€™s
public-address system and cued up the infamous €śSeven Minutes of
Funk€ť break, Mr. Leahy and Mr. Cheney went head-to-head in what can
only be described as a €śtake no prisoners€ť
freesty
newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040726sh_shouts
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Google Cartoon in the New Yorker
Google Cartoon in the New Yorker
12/13/2002 02:10 PMThe New Yorker recently ran a cartoon featuring Google and they've
just now put it up on their site. (Thanks, Kiruba!)...
The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
11/11/2003 05:55 AMRemember the banjo boy in the 1972 film "Deliverance"? .. soon be in a
theater near you
newyorker.com/talk/content/?031117ta_talk_friend
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the new yorker on Neck Face
the new yorker on Neck Face
04/09/2004 04:06 PMi want to stick figure my way into a conde nast publication
The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
06/22/2004 10:59 AMLouis Menand .. more» .. Bad Comma ..
more
newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1
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New Go-L Laptop: Who Makes the New
Yorker?
New Go-L Laptop: Who Makes the New
Yorker?
05/18/2004 03:00 PMSo Liebermann has a new version of its New Yorker model that is a dead
ringer for an Apple Powerbook 15-inch, which according to the
misleading flash splash page will have both a Pentium-M, Centrino,
Pentium 4, and Athlon64 inside. Amazing! Since the previously
announced New Yorker was a Centrino,...
"article that Hersh had written for the
New Yorker"
"article that Hersh had written for the
New Yorker"
03/13/2003 10:25 AMNew Yorker punts haunted Nintendo NES
New Yorker punts haunted Nintendo NES
03/14/2005 04:39 PMParanormal eBay madness
PERLE SUING OVER NEW YORKER ARTICLE
PERLE SUING OVER NEW YORKER ARTICLE
03/13/2003 10:21 AMRight Wing New York Newspaper Says Perle is Suing Hersh in England
Because It is Easier to Win There. Watch for Perle to Drop the Suit
After the War Starts. 3/13 .. suing
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CityCynic.com: The life of a New Yorker
who doesn't know when to quit.
CityCynic.com: The life of a New Yorker
who doesn't know when to quit.
01/18/2004 08:08 AMwww.citycynic.com/ .. citycynic .. Anthony
citycynic.com
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"The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic
At Large"
"The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic
At Large"
01/27/2004 02:55 PMThe New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At
Large
The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At
Large
12/18/2003 03:27 AMcomparing and contrasting the two "rings" - Wagner's "Ring of the
Nibelung" and Tolkein's Ring triology .. a certain conspiracy of
silence concerning Wagner .. the current New Yorker .. more» ..
comparison
newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?031222crat_atlarge
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The New Yorker: Online Only: Cover
Gallery
The New Yorker: Online Only: Cover
Gallery
05/02/2004 12:37 PMPhotos of Systematic Torture of Iraqi Prisoners by US Army ..
Photos
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Computer Programmer appears in a New
Yorker story
Computer Programmer appears in a New
Yorker story
06/05/2005 11:56 PMThe May 9, 2005 New Yorker magazine contains the final
installment of Elizabeth Kolbert's series of articles on climate
change. The series started off with interesting accounts of
scientists at work and people living in the Far North. It ends
with boring government officials negotiating and a prediction that the
human race will go extinct due to climate change. Kolbert's lack
of faith in human adaptability stems perhaps from her not seen Peter
Ginter's show at SlideWest 2005 in which he documented the life of
folks living in one of Manila's flooded ghetto. The Filipinos in
the photos don't seem to enjoy wading through knee-high water to get
from house to house but the cycle of birth, education, marriage, and
reproduction seems to continue unabated. Even if one isn't
despairing for the survival of the species, however, it might not be
wise to buy a beach house 10' above sea level with the expectation
that one's grandchildren will enjoy it...
The good news from the rest of the issue is that a computer
programmer makes it into a story as the main character for the first
time in memory. "Along the Highways" by Nick Arvin starts with
Graham, a "thin and bald" thirtysomething guy who "studied computer
science in college" and is in love with his brother's widow
Lindsey. Graham is disturbed to find Lindsey riding down the
highway in a convertible with a big pudgy guy named Doug. He
pursues them for many hours, punctuated by mobile phone conversations
among the parties, and finally the story ends at the side of the road
with Lindsey encouraging Doug to beat up our programmer
protagonist. Graham ends up in a heap by the side of the road
while Doug and Lindsey drive off.
80 Years of The New Yorker to Be Offered
in Disc Form
80 Years of The New Yorker to Be Offered
in Disc Form
06/05/2005 10:45 PMThe New Yorker will publish its entire 80-year archives on searchable
computer discs this fall under the title "The Complete New Yorker."
New Yorker dreams of a city where he can
sleep (Reuters)
New Yorker dreams of a city where he can
sleep (Reuters)
01/16/2004 10:56 AMReuters - Fledgling Manhattan-based composer Aaron Friedman finally
decided he'd had enough about a year ago
after he was rudely awakened late one night for the umpteenth time by
the woeep-bloeep-doeep of a car alarm.
Alex Ross (New Yorker music critic) has
a bl0g
Alex Ross (New Yorker music critic) has
a bl0g
06/28/2004 04:38 PMgoooo, typepad!
The New Yorker: THE CANDIDATE How the
son of a Kenyan economist became an
Illinois Everyman
The New Yorker: THE CANDIDATE How the
son of a Kenyan economist became an
Illinois Everyman
07/29/2004 10:03 AMWarfel's methods were out of
line
newyorker.com/fact/content/?040531fa_fact1
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New Yorker Posing as Princess Accused of
Scam (Reuters)
New Yorker Posing as Princess Accused of
Scam (Reuters)
05/10/2004 10:27 AMReuters - A New York woman who posed in
high-society circles as a Saudi Arabian princess was indicted
on charges she stole more than a quarter of a million dollars
in an insurance scam.
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