Sidebar: Obama About-Face Goes to High Court

NY Times: "First the Justice Department decided it would not ask the Supreme Court to block the release of photographs showing the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then it changed its mind."

CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program

truthout: "A number of new reports have, in recent weeks, highlighted evidence of illegal human experimentation on US-held "terrorism" prisoners undergoing torture. Those reports come on the heels of a "white paper" by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), "Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated", in the May 2004 inspector general's report.

This article looks at those recent charges, and reveals that experiments by a CIA researcher on human subjects undergoing SERE training went unreported in the legal memos the Bush administration drafted to approve their torture program. It will also connect major military and intelligence figures to the SERE experiments and tie some of them to major science and "experimental" directorates at the CIA and Special Operations Command."

Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by Guards

NY Times: "Prosecutors charge Blackwater guards repeatedly shot into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians."

'Weekend jihadis'

BBC: "In the villages of Afghanistan, many young men are working for the government during the week, but fighting for the Taliban at weekends."

Afghanistan: Doubt Grows Over Another Distant War

Huffington Post: "KENT, Ohio — The demonstrations, the troops, the fresh anger are all long gone. Where anti-war protests raged, today a granite plaza invites peaceful reflection. On the spots where four young people fell in a spray of National Guard bullets, lanterns stand in remembrance."