Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
23 July 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News
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Current Operations
Deployments
US Policy
- Bush, Iraqi Leader Expected To Review Baghdad Security Plan Washington File 23 Jul 2006 -- President Bush's meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq July 25 will be an opportunity for the leaders to evaluate progress in the areas of security, political reconciliation and economic reform in Iraq, according to a senior administration official.
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
- Saddam Hussein Hospitalized RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was today hospitalized, 17 days into a hunger strike.
Foreign Reactions
News Reports
- IRAQ: Torture of detainees is commonplace, says rights group IRIN 23 Jul 2006 -- The Iraqi government has called for an investigation after New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Sunday that US military personnel regularly torture and abuse Iraqi detainees under interrogation.
- Prisoner Abuse Reportedly Continued After Abu Ghraib RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- The group Human Rights Watch says in a new report that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of Iraqi detainees even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called public attention to the issue in 2004.
- Report: US Superiors Authorized Abuse of Iraqi Detainees VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- A U.S.-based human rights organization alleges that detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were routinely subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other forms of abuse by American interrogators.
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