Hersh: US executes Afghan prisoners
Sat, 15 May 2010 16:48:27 GMT
As the Afghan occupation continues to prove troublesome for the Obama administration, a report says US-led troops torture and execute prisoners in the country.
Seymour Hersh, an investigative journalist with the New Yorker, made the revelation during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in
"I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in
He also alleged that US forces were engaged in 'battlefield executions' and other heinous offences, Raw Story reported.
"They're being executed on the battlefield. It's unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn't necessarily get reported. Things don't change," Hersh noted.
Hersh who worked for many years at The New York Times also helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in
The report comes as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently confirmed reports about the existence of a secret detention facility at a
Human rights groups say Bagram and other US-ran jail facilities have remained
However, US officials claim that all inmates in the facility are treated humanely.
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Chomsky barred from
MIT professor turned away at
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | May 17, 2010
Noam Chomsky, an outspoken voice on the political left and a fierce critic of Israeli foreign policy, was denied entry by Israeli officials into the West Bank yesterday, where he was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a Palestinian university.
Chomsky, a renowned linguistics professor at MIT, was seeking to cross the border between
An Israeli official said in published reports that border officials barred Chomsky because they mistakenly thought he was also planning to visit other places in
“We are trying to contact the military to clear things up, and if they have no objection, we see no reason why he should not be allowed in,’’ Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told Reuters.
In an e-mail to the Globe, Chomsky said he believed he was being singled out for his criticism of
Chomsky, 81, said he believes he was also targeted because his trip did not include any engagements at Israeli universities, as he has often done in the past. He predicted that
In a live television interview with Al Jazeera, Chomsky said the Israeli government “does not like the kind of things I say, which puts them into the category of every other government in the world.’’
In
“A democratic state, which considers freedom of expression a guiding principle, does not close itself off to criticism or uncomfortable notions and does not refuse entry to visitors whose views it does not accept, but rather deals with them through public discourse,’’ the group said in a statement.
Chomsky, who is Jewish, is a frequent critic of Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories and of
On its website,
Chomsky’s daughter — Aviva Chomsky, a professor at
In e-mails, she said that she and her father were questioned by an official from the Ministry of the Interior, who asked why Chomsky was going to Birzeit and not to an Israeli university and what he was planning to speak about.
Chomsky said he had traveled to
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Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel
Left-wing American linguist, who was scheduled to speak at
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American linguist Noam Chomsky was denied entry into
Left-wing American linguist Professor Noam Chomsky was denied entry into
Chomsky, who was scheduled to deliver a lecture at Bir Zeit University near Jerusalem, told the Right to Enter activist group by telephone that inspectors had stamped the words "denied entry" onto his passport when he tried to cross from
When he asked an Israeli inspector why he had not received permission, he was told that an explanation would be sent in writing to the American embassy.
Chomsky arrived at the
Chomsky is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is considered among the foremost academics in the world. He identifies with the radical left and is often critical of both Israeli and American policies.
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