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Media wars With the Pentagon planting "good news" stories in the Iraqi media, and al-Qaeda launching a sophisticated CD, the adversaries share a keen desire to communicate ...

Berlin's Double Standards in Terror War German ministers past and present are fast becoming embroiled in an affair over how much they knew about the CIA's kidnapping and detention of terrorism suspects. Some newspaper commentators smell a ...

War crimes made easy

"A Leaderless, Directionless Superpower" Lawrence Wilkerson, 60, was instrumental in helping then Secretary of State Colin Powell assemble the dossier against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Now, however, is one of the Bush Administration's sharpes...

"Torture" takes on new meaning in post-9/11 U.S.

Saddam trial witnesses tell of torture Witnesses gave harrowing accounts of being tortured, pistol-whipped and given electric shocks by Saddam Hussein's men as the trial of the ousted Iraqi dictator over a Shiite massacre 23 years ago continued.

Secret CIA Prisons Moved From Europe to North Africa The United States held captured Al-Qaeda suspects at two secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe until last month when the facilities were shut down after media reports ...

Palestinians cheer Saddam as a hero

Tyrant or hero, Saddam steals the show in trial Whether Iraqis hate or love Saddam Hussein they agree the toppled dictator has taken control of his high-profile trial with ...

US reshapes forces to pick up the pieces after war A broad Pentagon directive issued this week orders the US military to be sure, the next time it goes to war, to prepare more thoroughly for picking up the pieces afterwar...

Accountability not a part of Iraq strategy

Man sues CIA over torture claims

'Tortured' Australian speaks out

Rice says US does not condone torture* Claims US will work to rectify mistakes in terror war * Declines to comment on the alleged CIA abduction of a German man

Textbook withdrawn for praising Bush The Pakistan government has ordered school textbooks to be withdrawn after it emerged they included a crudely written poem in praise of US President George Bush.

Saddam invites court to 'visit my cage' after witnesses tell of torture Saddam Hussein shouted that he would not return "to an unjust court" after spending the fourth day of his trial listening stony-faced to a woman describe horrific tortures inflicted on her by Iraqi interrogators.

The questions Condoleezza must answer You say the US does not permit torture under any circumstances. So why are you bending the torture rules?

Bush speech to emphasize Iraq reconstruction gains U.S. President George W. Bush will detail progress in Iraqi reconstruction on Wednesday as he tries to counter deep mistrust of his Iraq policy before elections in the war-ravaged country next week.

al-Qaida Chief: Iraq Insurgents Must Unite