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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 1/22/2009

Obama, The Crawford Torture Admission & The Army Field Manual Lie

— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — Graphic by Darkblack In an earlier post I discussed the startling direct admission that the United States... tortures terror detainees made public in last Wednesday's blockbuster Bob Woodward piece in the Washington Post . As the Bush ... (more) Obama, The Crawford Torture Admission & The Army Field ...

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longwarjournal.org - 1/21/2009

Iraqi Field Artillery: The missing link

— longwarjournal.org — New Iraqi Howitzer. The most significant deficiency of the Iraqi Security Forces is its missing artillery. Artillery... is called the "King of the Battlefield" because it is the single largest casualty maker in conventional war. ... (more) Iraqi Field Artillery: The missing link

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longwarjournal.org - 1/24/2009

Iraqi Army Movements In Kirkuk and Salahadin

— longwarjournal.org — Iraqi Army Movements in Kirkuk, Salahadin and Sulaymaniyah. On January 23, 2009, the Kurdish Globe published an... article titled "Iraqi army moves closer to Kurdistan" . The very first hand-wringing statement was: "Kurds ... (more) Iraqi Army Movements In Kirkuk and Salahadin

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Examining Today's Executive Orders
Daily Kos — ... . It sets up a task force to ensure that the Army Field Manual and the Geneva Convention Common Article Three are strictly adhered to during interrogations. But here that problem of the potential loophole reappears. Greg Sargent writes about it at his new blog: ...

Hmmm
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — by Patrick Appel Greg Sargent thinks that Obama left wiggle room on torture.

On Obama Ending Torture And Why a Torture Loophole Would Be a Terrible Idea
Open Left - Front Page — ... It did create, however, a task force to study whether there are times when interrogators could, uh, torture people.  This doesn't mean a loophole exists now, just that a task force will consider whether or not to create one. There are several ways to read this move by Obama: ...

1/23: This Wasn't What We Had In Mind...
Blogometer — ... appointing to the Senate: OBAMA: Making The Constitution Cool Again Liberal bloggers are praising Obama for signing executive orders "effectively ending the [CIA]'s secret interrogation program, directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year and setting up a sweeping, high-level review of the best way to hold and question terrorist suspects in the future": While pleased about Obama's executive orders, other liberal bloggers have some nagging questions about them. OBAMA II: Where's He Gonna Put The Prisoners? Conservative bloggers are ...

Rendition With a Human Face
Neptunus Lex — ... Torture: Criminal under the Bush regime. Human rights groups say that President Obama left himself some wriggle room to continue to use aggressive techniques in “counter-terrorist” operations. ...

The Return of the Stasi
Neptunus Lex — ... Obama famously declared that, unlike Bush, government agents will no longer use coercive interrogation techniques that some have called tantamount to torture. And left room in his statement for precisely that result. ...