Top bin Laden operative escaped U.S. custody
Top bin Laden operative escaped U.S. custody, prosecutor says The Associated Press, Nov. 1, 2005 by Alicia Caldwell FORT BLISS, Texas An Afghan prisoner believed to be a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, prosecutors said Tuesday. Omar al-Farouq, considered Osama bin […]
Troops tortured detainees, Human Rights Watch alleges
September 24, 2005 Troops tortured detainees, Human Rights Watch alleges NEW YORK (AP) — Soldiers in the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division vented their frustration by systematically torturing Iraqi detainees from 2003 into 2004, hitting them with baseball bats and dousing them with chemicals, a U.S. rights group alleges in a new report. The Human […]
Lawyers fight firearm charge – Augusta Chronicle
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Court-martial testimony begins
Coercive Police Interrogations In The United States One factor that continues to attract the interest of lawyers and law enforcement authorities is coercive interrogation by the police and its influence on false confessions by innocent suspects. Concern about false confessions has reached the point where large police consultancies’ use of interrogation techniques has been discredited […]