David Edwards, LewRockwell.com, May 13, 2010
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan.
New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced plans for a military strike on Iran.
At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Hersh criticized President Barack Obama, and alleged that US forces are engaged in “battlefield executions.”
Continues >>
Tags: Afghanistan, journalist Seymour Hersh, prisoners, Taliban
This entry was posted on May 13, 2010 at 4:50 pm and is filed under Afghanistan, Commentary, Uncategorized, US policy, USA, war. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Peace and Justice Post
Seymour Hersh Says US Troops Executing Prisoners in Afghanistan
David Edwards, LewRockwell.com, May 13, 2010
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan.
New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced plans for a military strike on Iran.
At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Hersh criticized President Barack Obama, and alleged that US forces are engaged in “battlefield executions.”
Continues >>
Share this:
Related
Tags: Afghanistan, journalist Seymour Hersh, prisoners, Taliban
This entry was posted on May 13, 2010 at 4:50 pm and is filed under Afghanistan, Commentary, Uncategorized, US policy, USA, war. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.