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Jury in Abu Ghraib trial says it is deadlocked; judge orders deliberations to continue

Newsday 26 Apr 2024
— A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago.
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Jury in Northern Virginia contractor’s Abu Ghraib trial says it is deadlocked; judge orders deliberations ...

Wtop 26 Apr 2024
(AP) — A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago.
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Jury in Abu Ghraib trial says it is deadlocked; judge orders deliberations to resume

Tulsa World 26 Apr 2024
A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago. The… ...
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US state department: worsening human rights in Iraq, IKR

The New Arab 25 Apr 2024
... against journalists persisted in Iraq and Kurdistan, with reports indicating 345 cases of abuses documented by the Press Freedom Advocacy Association by May, mainly concentrated in Baghdad and Erbil.
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The long shadow of US and UK torture in the Middle East

The New Arab 25 Apr 2024
These revelations reflect how the failure to address past violations in the ‘war on terror’ - notably during heightened attention on abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison - has enabled US-backed torture practices to re-emerge.
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US neither confirms nor denies regular meetings with Assad

The New Arab 25 Apr 2024
The Caesar Act, accompanied by a slew of US sanctions on Syrians close to Assad, aimed to force accountability for human rights abuses and to encourage a political solution ... US forces in Iraq or Syria.
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US seeks 36 months' jail for Binance founder Zhao

GDN Online 24 Apr 2024
authorities have said Binance failed to report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions with designated terrorist groups including Hamas, al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
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Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army

The Virginian-Pilot 23 Apr 2024
Al-Ejaili, a former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, has described to jurors the type of abuse that is reminiscent of the scandal that erupted there 20 years ago ... Twenty years earlier, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S.
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Jury deliberates in Abu Ghraib detainee lawsuit

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 23 Apr 2024
-- A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. "If you believe they were abused ... invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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Jury deliberates in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army

Stars and Stripes 22 Apr 2024
— A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. “If you believe they were abused ... invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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Israel’s war on Gaza live: Deaths, injuries from fresh Israeli attacks

Al Jazeera 22 Apr 2024
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah resumes attacks on US forces ... The Reuters news agency, citing Iraqi sources, reported that at least five rockets were fired from Zummar, in northern Iraq, towards a US military base in northeastern Syria.
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Biden tells Zelensky US will move quickly

The Hill 22 Apr 2024
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter. {beacon}. Defense &. National Security. Defense &. National Security.   ...   ... Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army (The Associated Press).
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Retired Army General's testimony links private contractor to Abu Ghraib abuses

Sott 19 Apr 2024
An Army general who investigated the abuse of prisoners 20 years ago at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison testified Tuesday that a civilian contractor instructed prison guards to "soften up" detainees for interrogations.
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Civilian Interrogator Defends Work At Abu Ghraib, Tells Jury He Was Promoted

MENA FN 19 Apr 2024
(MENAFN - Live Mint) " ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq denied abusing detainees Thursday, and told jurors he was ... .
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Comparing Chibok And Yazidi Girls. Ten Years After, The Freed And Not Freed.

This Day 19 Apr 2024
Army records of human rights abuse stinks to the high heavens as evidenced by the recent bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Iraq killing 22 patients and medical personnel comprising of 12 staffers of ...
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