Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. full story ![]()
BAGHDAD (AP) — In Baghdad's maximum-security Karkh prison, Shawki Omar is triply damned, his supporters say.
boston.com (25 days ago)
BAGHDAD (AP) -- In Baghdad's maximum-security Karkh prison, Shawki Omar is triply damned, his supporters say....
ap.org (25 days ago)

Al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for car bombings that killed 37 in Baghdad Shiite areas
abcnews.com (3 months ago)

BAGHDAD—Al-Qaida's local franchise in Iraq has claimed responsibility for car bombings that killed at least 37 people in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad.
denverpost.com (3 months ago)
BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's local franchise in Iraq has claimed responsibility for car bombings that killed at least 37 people in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad.
boston.com (3 months ago)
BAGHDAD (AP) — An al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a carefully planned assault on the Justice Ministry in downtown Baghdad last week. The attack, involving car bombs and gunmen disguised as police, killed at least 24 people.
boston.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Iraqi wing claimed responsibility on Monday for attacks that killed 28 people in Shi'ite Muslim districts in Baghdad, saying it was taking revenge for perceived state repression of Sunni Muslims.
reuters.com (3 months ago)

One soldier reported he had seen a prisoner beaten around the head with his own prosthetic limb at Camp Nama, which was at the centre of one of the most serious human rights abuses since the Iraq invasion.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 16 days ago)

Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnessesView Baghdad's secret torture facilityBritish soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 17 days ago)
Operative Claims Liberal Group Behind Secret McConnell Recording
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