U.S. 'Appalled,' Bush Tells Arabs; Lawmakers Seek Abuse Hearings (Los Angeles Times)

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Lawmakers Seek Answers on Prisoner Abuse
(AP)

Lawmakers Seek Answers on Prisoner Abuse
(AP) 05/04/2004 10:49 AM
AP - Stunned by the U.S. military's abuse of Iraqi prisoners, lawmakers demanded answers Tuesday to how it happened. One senator said he feared the abuses may be more widespread than first reported.

Lawmakers seek answers on prisoner abuse

Lawmakers seek answers on prisoner abuse 05/04/2004 12:20 PM

Bush Scolds Rumsfeld on Abuse Inquiry
(Los Angeles Times)

Bush Scolds Rumsfeld on Abuse Inquiry
(Los Angeles Times) 05/06/2004 04:38 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — A clash erupted Wednesday between the White House and the Pentagon over the handling of the Iraq prison abuse investigation, with President Bush telling Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that he felt personally blindsided by the scandal and should have been more fully informed about its severity.

Bush appeal to Arabs in abuse row

Bush appeal to Arabs in abuse row 05/04/2004 11:49 PM
The US president will appear on Arab TV to try to limit the damage from an abuse scandal.

Bush Tries to Calm Arabs on Prison Abuse
(AP)

Bush Tries to Calm Arabs on Prison Abuse
(AP) 05/06/2004 01:39 AM
AP - President Bush tried to calm the anger of the Arab world over the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, promising that justice would be served. White House aides said he had chastised Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for failing to tell him about pictures of prisoner mistreatment.

Bush tries to calm Arabs on prison abuse

Bush tries to calm Arabs on prison abuse 05/06/2004 08:35 AM

U.S. Shift Undermines Efforts for
Mideast Peace, Arabs Say (Los Angeles
Times)

U.S. Shift Undermines Efforts for
Mideast Peace, Arabs Say (Los Angeles
Times) 04/16/2004 05:04 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Arab leaders charged Thursday that the United States, by recognizing Israel's claims to major settlements in the West Bank, could no longer be viewed as an honest broker for the Middle East peace process.

Justices Question Denial of Hearings for
Detainees (Los Angeles Times)

Justices Question Denial of Hearings for
Detainees (Los Angeles Times) 04/29/2004 04:47 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Wednesday to the Bush administration's claim that the president and his military commanders may hold American citizens indefinitely, and without a hearing, during the war on terrorism.

Lawmakers Vote to Allow Drug Purchases
From Canada (Los Angeles Times)

Lawmakers Vote to Allow Drug Purchases
From Canada (Los Angeles Times) 08/28/2004 05:55 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — Despite a large-scale lobbying effort by pharmaceutical companies and opposition from the Schwarzenegger administration, the Legislature on Friday gave final approval to a package of bills allowing cheaper drug imports from Canada.

U.S. Plans Abuse Trial (Los Angeles
Times)

U.S. Plans Abuse Trial (Los Angeles
Times) 05/10/2004 04:39 AM
Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — A former U.S. military policeman at the Abu Ghraib detention center will face a public court-martial here this month, military officials said Sunday, the first trial arising from the prisoner abuse scandal that has shaken the Bush administration and damaged the United States' image worldwide.

Abuse Investigation Includes 25 Deaths
(Los Angeles Times)

Abuse Investigation Includes 25 Deaths
(Los Angeles Times) 05/05/2004 05:25 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Twenty-five Iraqi and Afghan war prisoners have died in U.S. custody in the last 17 months, including two Iraqi detainees who may have been murdered by Americans, senior defense officials said Tuesday as the Bush administration moved to contain international outrage over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

Army Widens Abuse Probe (Los Angeles
Times)

Army Widens Abuse Probe (Los Angeles
Times) 05/24/2004 06:19 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — As the investigation of prisoner abuses in Iraq shifts to the role of military intelligence, two intelligence soldiers identified in the notorious pictures from the Abu Ghraib detention facility have been ordered to remain in Baghdad as part of the expanding probe, according to witness statements and commanders of the soldiers' reserve units.

U.S. Probing Alleged Abuse of Afghans
(Los Angeles Times)

U.S. Probing Alleged Abuse of Afghans
(Los Angeles Times) 09/21/2004 05:04 AM
Los Angeles Times - GARDEZ, Afghanistan — American military investigators have opened a criminal probe into allegations of murder and torture involving an 18-year-old Afghan army recruit who died while in U.S. custody last year. The new inquiry, which will also focus on the alleged torture of seven other Afghan soldiers, was confirmed Monday by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.

Wider Abuse Inquiry Sought (Los Angeles
Times)

Wider Abuse Inquiry Sought (Los Angeles
Times) 05/17/2004 07:34 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Members of Congress from both political parties called Sunday for additional investigations into the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal to determine whether responsibility lies higher up the chain of command than with the seven Army reservists who are facing criminal charges.

O.C. Priest-Abuse Talks to Resume (Los
Angeles Times)

O.C. Priest-Abuse Talks to Resume (Los
Angeles Times) 06/15/2004 05:07 AM
Los Angeles Times - Locked inside the 17th floor of a Los Angeles courthouse, two judges and a small army of attorneys worked day and night Monday attempting to craft a settlement that would pay tens of millions of dollars to as many as 100 people who said they were sexually abused by priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.

Documents Provide New Details of Abuse
(Los Angeles Times)

Documents Provide New Details of Abuse
(Los Angeles Times) 05/23/2004 06:33 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Military investigators who combed through the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq this year were told that one detainee was slammed head-first into a wall and later died, and that another was dunked in urine.

Abuse Photos Repel Members of Congress
(Los Angeles Times)

Abuse Photos Repel Members of Congress
(Los Angeles Times) 05/13/2004 04:59 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress expressed disgust and shock Wednesday after they privately viewed hundreds of additional photographs showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war by U.S. military personnel.

Abuse Brings Deaths of Captives Into
Focus (Los Angeles Times)

Abuse Brings Deaths of Captives Into
Focus (Los Angeles Times) 05/16/2004 05:03 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — An Afghan captive froze to death in a CIA-run lockup in Kabul in 2002 after he was doused with water and shackled overnight to a wall. The prisoner died, U.S. intelligence sources said, after Afghan guards apparently sought to punish him for being unruly.

FBI Agents Complained of Prisoner Abuse,
Records Say (Los Angeles Times)

FBI Agents Complained of Prisoner Abuse,
Records Say (Los Angeles Times) 12/22/2004 01:22 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — FBI agents have lodged repeated complaints of physical and mental mistreatment of prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, saying in reports that military officials have placed lighted cigarettes in detainees' ears and humiliated Arab captives by wrapping Israeli flags around them, according to new documents released Monday.

N.Y. Child Killer Who Personified Abuse
Is Paroled (Los Angeles Times)

N.Y. Child Killer Who Personified Abuse
Is Paroled (Los Angeles Times) 07/01/2004 05:27 AM
Los Angeles Times - NEW YORK — Convicted killer Joel Steinberg left prison Wednesday, focusing attention once again on a crime that shocked this city nearly 17 years ago and came to symbolize the problem of child abuse nationwide.

Poor Leadership Blamed for Abuse at U.S.
Prison in Iraq (Los Angeles Times)

Poor Leadership Blamed for Abuse at U.S.
Prison in Iraq (Los Angeles Times) 05/04/2004 05:10 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Overcrowded cellblocks, sadistic guards abusing and humiliating prisoners, inmates shot dead trying to escape down dark alleys, and detainees being spirited around the prison compound to avoid Red Cross workers.

3 Witnesses at Iraq Abuse Hearing
Refused to Testify (Los Angeles Times)

3 Witnesses at Iraq Abuse Hearing
Refused to Testify (Los Angeles Times) 05/19/2004 04:44 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Three key witnesses, including a senior officer in charge of interrogations, refused to testify during a secret hearing against an alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves.

Abu Ghraib Guard Paints Harrowing
Portrait of Abuse (Los Angeles Times)

Abu Ghraib Guard Paints Harrowing
Portrait of Abuse (Los Angeles Times) 05/14/2004 04:51 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The first soldier scheduled for court-martial in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has told military authorities a harrowing tale of abuse, including an episode in which a guard used a nightstick to beat an Iraqi detainee who had been shot in the legs and handcuffed to a bed.

Reservist Pleads Guilty in First Prison
Abuse Court-Martial (Los Angeles Times)

Reservist Pleads Guilty in First Prison
Abuse Court-Martial (Los Angeles Times) 05/20/2004 05:35 AM
Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — Choking back tears and expressing remorse, U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy Sivits pleaded guilty Wednesday to abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention center in the first court-martial of an American soldier involved in the prison scandal.

What Did Bush Do in the Guard? (Los
Angeles Times)

What Did Bush Do in the Guard? (Los
Angeles Times) 02/15/2004 07:33 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Before he was president, before he was governor, before he was an oilman or ran a professional baseball team, or was widely known as the drifting and carousing son of a famous father, George Walker Bush flew airplanes. He earned his pilot wings lifting F-102 interceptor jets off of a Texas Air National Guard tarmac in Houston.

Bush Is Praised as War Leader (Los
Angeles Times)

Bush Is Praised as War Leader (Los
Angeles Times) 08/31/2004 04:44 AM
Los Angeles Times - NEW YORK — Portraying Sen. John F. Kerry as wavering and weak, Republicans opened their national convention Monday by hailing President Bush as a leader who had made America safer and, given four more years, could extend that protection to a world shadowed by terrorism.

Gov. Keeps Distance From Bush Campaign
(Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Keeps Distance From Bush Campaign
(Los Angeles Times) 05/17/2004 06:09 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — As President Bush spends more time on the campaign trail, there is one prominent and popular Republican virtually silent in his support for the president: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Bush, CIA at Odds on Iran (Los Angeles
Times)

Bush, CIA at Odds on Iran (Los Angeles
Times) 07/20/2004 04:32 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — President Bush said Monday that his administration was investigating possible links between Iran and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a statement that distanced the president from acting CIA Director John McLaughlin, who had downplayed a possible connection a day earlier.

Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go (Los
Angeles Times)

Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go (Los
Angeles Times) 06/13/2004 05:52 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged America's national security and should be defeated in November.

Standing Bush in a Corner (Los Angeles
Times)

Standing Bush in a Corner (Los Angeles
Times) 06/26/2004 04:32 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The new commercial jabs Jeb and George W. Bush, suggesting the Florida governor call on his brother, the president, to "fix No Child Left Behind so Florida's kids can get ahead."

A Week That Could Bolster Bush (Los
Angeles Times)

A Week That Could Bolster Bush (Los
Angeles Times) 06/08/2004 06:12 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Can Ronald Reagan's political magic work in one last election — this time for President Bush?

Bush TV Ads Anger Some Relatives of 9/11
Victims (Los Angeles Times)

Bush TV Ads Anger Some Relatives of 9/11
Victims (Los Angeles Times) 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Democratic officials, a firefighters union and some relatives of Sept. 11 victims assailed President Bush on Thursday for using video images from the site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers in the first round of his reelection campaign's television advertisements.

CBS Apologizes for Its Story on Bush
Memos (Los Angeles Times)

CBS Apologizes for Its Story on Bush
Memos (Los Angeles Times) 09/21/2004 05:04 AM
Los Angeles Times - NEW YORK — In an extraordinary admission, CBS News apologized Monday for using unverified documents about President Bush's military service in a "60 Minutes" broadcast and said a key source on the story had lied to the network.

Sharon to Bush: Arafat a Target (Los
Angeles Times)

Sharon to Bush: Arafat a Target (Los
Angeles Times) 04/24/2004 04:52 AM
Los Angeles Times - JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is fighting to shore up support among hard-liners in his Likud Party, said Friday that he had told President Bush during their White House meeting last week that he no longer felt bound by an earlier pledge not to harm Yasser Arafat.

Hand-Over Is Political Gamble for Bush
(Los Angeles Times)

Hand-Over Is Political Gamble for Bush
(Los Angeles Times) 06/28/2004 05:01 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The hand-over of authority to an interim Iraqi government may offer President Bush his best opportunity before November to rebuild public confidence in his strategy for Iraq, but it also risks accelerating U.S. disillusionment with the mission there.

Bush Aims to Solidify His Base (Los
Angeles Times)

Bush Aims to Solidify His Base (Los
Angeles Times) 08/22/2004 05:46 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Even as President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry cross each other's tracks through the same battleground states, their strategies for winning November's election appear to be diverging.

On Storm, Bush Aims to Be Unlike Dad
(Los Angeles Times)

On Storm, Bush Aims to Be Unlike Dad
(Los Angeles Times) 08/15/2004 06:21 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Just as his father did 12 years before, President Bush is flying to Florida to survey the damage wrought by a major hurricane less than three months before facing a hotly contested election.

Musicians Banding Together to Beat Bush
(Los Angeles Times)

Musicians Banding Together to Beat Bush
(Los Angeles Times) 08/05/2004 05:30 AM
Los Angeles Times - NEW YORK — In one of the most ambitious efforts by entertainers to influence a presidential election, a group of marquee-level pop musicians announced Wednesday an October concert blitz aimed at mobilizing opposition to President Bush.

Gun Groups May Not Be Bush Campaign
Weapon (Los Angeles Times)

Gun Groups May Not Be Bush Campaign
Weapon (Los Angeles Times) 04/13/2004 04:47 AM
Los Angeles Times - The National Rifle Assn. sold a videotape on its website during the early days of the 2000 presidential campaign showing a top official predicting that if George W. Bush won, "we'll have a president … where we work out of their office."
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