Red Cross Report Describes Abuse in Iraq
The Red Cross saw American officers mistreating Abu Ghraib prisoners by keeping them naked in total darkness in empty cells, and up to 90 percent of Iraqi detainees were arrested by mistake, according to a report disclosed Monday.
Associated Press 5/10/2004

British soldier gives new details of abuse of jailed Iraqis
British military chiefs were last night confronted with further damaging allegations about the behaviour of their troops, with fresh claims of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war.
The Guardian  5/7/2004

Photos of Dead May Indicate Graver Abuse
Grisly photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison of two dead men may indicate that the violence at the prison went far beyond degrading treatment of detainees. The Bush administration has provided only limited information about one of the men; the other remains a mystery.
New York Times 5/7/2004

Army Probes 42 Cases of Abuse of Iraq Civilians
The U.S. Army is investigating possible abuse by Americans of 42 Iraqi civilians in addition to ongoing probes of abuse of prisoners in Iraq (news - web sites), the Army's top civilian said on Friday.
Reuters 5/7/2004

Red Cross Says Repeatedly Warned U.S. on Iraq Jail
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had repeatedly urged the United States to take "corrective action" at a Baghdad jail at the center of a scandal over abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
Reuters 5/6/2004

Groups Say They Cited Iraq Prison Abuse
Iraq (news - web sites)'s oldest human rights group and the international Red Cross said Thursday that they complained repeatedly last year about mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, long before the U.S. Army began investigating abuse allegations.
Associated Press  5/6/2004

Red Cross Sought Action on Prisoner Abuse
The international Red Cross said Thursday that it had repeatedly asked U.S. authorities to take action over alleged prisoner abuse at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison before recent revelations about the way detainees were treated.
Associated Press 5/6/2004

New Prison Images Emerge
The graphic images, passed around among military police who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, are a new batch of photographs similar to those broadcast a week ago on CBS's "60 Minutes II" and published by the New Yorker magazine.
Washington Post  5/6/2004

Iraq Prisoner Abuses Widespread, Rights Groups Say
Photo images of U.S. soldiers abusing and humiliating prisoners in Iraq (news - web sites) may be just the tip of the iceberg and only a non-military inquiry will expose the full extent of the problem, human rights groups said on Thursday.
Reuters 5/6/2004

Ex-Detainee Tells of Anguishing Treatment at Iraq Prison
Lazim, 34, was prisoner No. 15227, according to his release papers. He said he was one of the hooded men in the photographs taken inside an Abu Ghraib cellblock that have generated worldwide revulsion.
Washington Post  5/6/2004

Washington’s hypocrisy over Iraq torture
Forced to confront the catastrophic impact that the photographs of naked and hooded Iraqis being sexually abused and tortured by US troops has had in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, official Washington has feigned horror.
World Socialist Web Site 5/5/2004

U.S. Troops Said to Mistreat Elder Iraqi Woman
U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday.
Associated Press  5/5/2004

U.S. abuse undermines treaties
As images of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners spread to television sets around the globe, human rights organizations are increasingly concerned that a century of building steady support for international treaties banning torture could be irreparably damaged.
The Baltimore Sun 5/5/2004

U.S. Resident Claims Torture by Troops
A U.S. resident has alleged in a legal claim that he was tortured by U.S. troops in Iraq in April 2003 while held as a prisoner at Camp Bucca, a U.S. detention center in Umm Qasr.
Washington Post  5/5/2004

A Wretched New Picture Of America
Among the corrosive lies a nation at war tells itself is that the glory -- the lofty goals announced beforehand, the victories, the liberation of the oppressed -- belongs to the country as a whole; but the failure -- the accidents, the uncounted civilian dead, the crimes and atrocities -- is always exceptional.
Washington Post  5/5