Beheaded Man Detained by US for 13 Days
From the Associated Press
Excerpt: ... Michael Berg lashed out at the U.S. military and Bush administration, saying his son might still be alive had he not been detained by U.S. officials in Iraq without being charged and without access to a lawyer.

Nick Berg, a small telecommunications business owner, spoke to his parents on March 24 and told them he would return home on March 30. But Berg was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul on March 24. He was turned over to U.S. officials and detained for 13 days.

His father, Michael, said his son wasn't allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer.

FBI agents visited Berg's parents in West Chester on March 31 and told the family they were trying to confirm their son's identity. On April 5, the Bergs filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military. The next day Berg was released. He told his parents he hadn't been mistreated.

Michael Berg said he blamed the U.S. government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death. He said if his son hadn't been detained for so long, he might have been able to leave the country before the violence worsened...

Flashback Washington Post - December 26, 2002
Stress and Duress Tactics used on Terrorism Suspects
Excerpt: ... Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interrogation center are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in black hoods or spray-painted goggles, according to intelligence specialists familiar with CIA interrogation methods. At times they are held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights -- subject to what are known as "stress and duress" techniques.

Those who cooperate are rewarded with creature comforts, interrogators whose methods include feigned friendship, respect, cultural sensitivity and, in some cases, money. Some who do not cooperate are turned over -- "rendered," in official parlance -- to foreign intelligence services whose practice of torture has been documented by the U.S. government and human rights organizations ...

Flashback Guardian - June 1, 2003
Army to Face New Torture Claims
Excerpt: ... Gary Bartlam, 18, from Dordon, Warwickshire, is being questioned after pictures apparently showing the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners were found on a film he handed in for processing on returning home on leave last week. The images are believed to show one Iraqi prisoner bound with rope and suspended in a net cradle from a forklift truck driven by a British soldier. Others show Iraqis being forced to simulate sex acts with British troops or each other ...

Flashback Japan Today - July 25, 2002
US Fails to Block UN Anti-Torture Vote
Excerpt: The United States failed to block a U.N. vote Wednesday on a plan to strengthen a treaty on torture, and was widely criticized by allies for trying to do so. The United States argued that the measure, known as a protocol, could pave the way for international and independent visits to U.S. prisons and to terror suspects being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. ...

Flashback London Mirror- March 12, 2004
My Hell in Camp X-Ray
Excerpt: ... The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted with fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection ... He said detainees were shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin ...
... Prisoners who had never seen an "unveiled" woman before would be forced to watch as the hookers touched their own naked bodies. The men would return distraught. One said an American girl had smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act of humiliation ...

Flashback CNN - January 28, 2002
Bush Says No POW Status for Detainees