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War in Iraq Costs: A Half-Trillion-Dollars and Counting
Receipts for the war in Iraq to will soon be ringing up to $564 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. That's more than ten times the $50 billion that the Bush administration once predicted before the war started in March 2003. "It's worth it," Bush said last May, when the tab was about $320 billion. "I wouldn't have [...]
Willing to Please
There once was a line of thinking that the sign of a good manager is when one knows his or her weaknesses and compensates those weaknesses with the strengths of a well-rounded staff. Good presidents also go out of their way to find the strongest thinkers of opposing views to help probe policies for their weaknesses and figure out where solutions [...]
Hearing Begins for Former Iraq Prison Commander
Some in Iraq say his code name is Cold Steele. Others say he is facing charges for "being too nice" to Iraqi prisoners. U.S. Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele's hearing began today in Baghdad on charges that he aided the enemy while in command of the prison at Camp Cropper in Iraq. Steele's chief attorney, Maj. David G. Barrett, complained during [...]
private security
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/mercenaries/index.htm http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20&ItemID=12686 http://www.fayobserver.com/article_ap?id=104392 This week, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri and Rep. David Price of North Carolina, both Democrats, asked the Government Accountability Office [...]
Forced Labor More Wide Spread than Sex Trafficking?
The global trafficking for forced labor may be a bigger problem than the higher profile problem of sex trafficking: So says Kristiina Kangaspunta, the chief of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ). "We don't know, but it seems that it might be that forced labor is a bigger part of the human trafficking [...]
Investigation of Former Camp Cropper Commander
The Article 32 Investigation for Lieutenant Colonel William H. Steele, will be held on Camp Victory starting April 30 and is estimated to last two to three days. Portions, but not all of the investigation hearing is open to press. No video cameras, cameras or other recording devices are allowed in the courtroom, nor will photos or video of the [...]
Steele Sex Offender?
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Charges Against Lt. Col. William H. Steele — Commander of Camp Cropper Prison, Iraq
posted by David Phinney The Charges Against Steele: RELEASE No. 20070426-01 April 26, 2007 Charges announced Multi-National Corps - Iraq PAO Baghdad, Iraq- Lt. Col. William H. Steele has been charged with offenses under the provisions of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. These charges are merely an accusation of wrongdoing. [...]
Lt. Col. William Steele, Commandant at Camp Cropper Prison Arrested in Iraq
by David Phinney April 25, 2007 -- A former top prison commander at a prison known for "high-value" detainees, Camp Cropper, Iraq, has been quietly under arrest for weeks and detained in Kuwait under charges that he was aiding the enemy, according to numerous independent sources. U.S. officials arrested Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, 51, [...]
Spooky Business in a Strange World
by David Phinney April 25, 2007 -- The flood of emails continues pouring in about the short news story retelling Donald Vance's three-month imprisonment at Camp Cropper in Iraq. Vance says he was acting as an FBI informant while working for an Iraqi-owned private security company. He claims he was witnessing the possible illegal sales of [...]
