Nearly 200 Pentagon photos show abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Pentagon has released 198 photographs on February 5 showing abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq by U.S. personnel.

Many of the photographs released by Pentagon show close-ups of cuts and bruises on the arms and legs of the prisoners.

According to Pentagon, the photographs came from investigations into 56 allegations of misconduct by U.S. personnel.

Pentagon also added that 14 of those allegations were sustained and led to disciplinary action against 65 U.S. service members, including life imprisonment.

Meanwhile, the Amnesty International, said hundreds more photographs and documents pertaining abuse of prisoners in the two countries, remain withheld.

http://nation.com.pk/international/06-Feb-2016/nearly-200-pentagon-photos-show-abuse-of-prisoners-in-afghanistan-and-iraq

 

200 images released by US military depict Bush-era detainee abuse

Bruises, reddened marks and bandaged body parts featured in nearly 200 images of US detainee abuse that the Pentagon was forced to release on Friday, the result of a court battle that has lasted more than a decade.

While the American Civil Liberties Union – which has fought for the publication of the photos of Bush-era torture in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2003 – hailed the belated disclosure, it pledged to keep fighting for approximately 1,800 more images the Pentagon continues to withhold, which it believes documents far more graphic detainee torture.

The photos are part of a cache relevant to investigations of detainee abuse at two dozen US military sites around Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps Guantánamo Bay.
Many showed detainees in states of undress having their bodies inspected, with rulers and coins held up for comparison and placement of injuries

http://nation.com.pk/international/07-Feb-2016/200-images-released-by-us-military-depict-bush-era-detainee-abuse

Boko Haram:The trouble with the war (2)

 It is a riddle that every responsive administration will want to solve. Like a modern-day paradox, the Nigerian military is suffering, perhaps, its worst arsenal depletion at a time the defence sector has enjoyed its heaviest allocations, prompting debates on what went wrong with the votes over the years. Apart from the $1 billion loan secured last year to prosecute the insurgency war by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, a whopping N3 trillion has been sunk into the military in the last five years, when the insurgency crisis reached the depths of despair. Yet, insecurity haunts the land, a development that has prompted President Muhammadu Buhari to raise a 13-member panel to dig into the country’s weapon procurement from 2007 todate.

http://thenationonlineng.net/boko-haramthe-trouble-with-the-war-2/

Anti-graft war One economy, one account

 For those who are still wondering how the President Muhammadu Buhari government would unravel, it is all in the open. In the last three months since he mounted the saddle, event watchers are indeed convinced that there is a new sheriff in town in a manner of speaking, judging by some of the far-reaching measures already being taken  by his administration.

http://thenationonlineng.net/anti-graft-war-one-economy-one-account/

‘Treasury Single Account ‘ll block leakages’

Its Director-General, Mr. Muda Yusuf, also said the regime will check the recklessness of some ministries and departments (MDAs) and make available more revenue for the government to run its operations. He decried a situation where agencies collect revenues and spend same at will without recourse to the budget or government.

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