[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: This week on NOW

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>NOW
>Friday, April 29, 2005 on PBS
>(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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>This week on NOW:  
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>* A Few Bad Men?  Those infamous photos from Abu Ghraib: the hoods, the
>electrodes, the beatings.  For the first time on TV, a prisoner's
>story...in his own words.  
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>Read what the Associated Press is saying about this week's NOW:
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>PBS' 'NOW' VISITS GUANTANAMO PRISON
>By Frazier Moore, AP
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>A former prisoner who says he was the man under the black hood in the
>gruesome photo from Abu Ghraib speaks out on this week's edition of the
>PBS newsmagazine "Now."
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>"I remember the box, the pipes, even the two wires," Haj Ali says in
>reference to the photo which, with others like it, showed the world how
>U.S. soldiers were abusing Iraqi inmates.
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>"They made me stand on a box with my hands hooked to wires and shocked
>me with electricity," Ali recalls through an interpreter in his first
>in-depth American TV interview. "It felt like my eyeballs were coming
>out of their sockets. I fell, and they put me back up again for more."
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>Then mayor of a Baghdad suburb and a member of the ruling Baath Party,
>he was snatched off the street in late 2003 and transported to the
>prison, despite denying involvement in the insurgency. During his almost
>three months at Abu Ghraib, Ali's family had no idea where he was.
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>The NOW story, which airs 9 p.m. EDT Friday (check local listings),
>examines legal and human rights issues surrounding U.S. policy for
>handling suspected terrorists.
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>"How we treat those we regard as our enemies says a lot about who we are
>as Americans, and as ethical people who live by our own rules," says
>host David Brancaccio, reporting from the U.S. military camp at
>Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 500 suspected terrorists are being
>held indefinitely in what he calls a "legal blackhole."
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>Meanwhile, FBI e-mails allege that many of those detainees have been
>physically abused, possibly even tortured, as part of their
>interrogation.
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>"We were shocked," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the
>American Civil Liberties Union, which successfully sued to get the
>documents made public. "Our worst fears about what was going on in Iraq
>and Afghanistan and elsewhere were confirmed in the government's very
>own reports."
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>Some of the allegations regarding Guantanamo Bay are similar to those
>from Abu Ghraib: Prisoners chained in painful positions, deprived of
>sleep for days and exposed to extremes in temperature.
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>NOW is granted a tour of the Guantanamo Bay prison, which for the past
>year has been under the command of Brig. Gen. Jay Hood.
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>"The detainees under our charge are well cared for, physically and
>mentally," Hood tells Brancaccio, who notes that it's unclear whether
>any abuses alleged in the e-mails occurred during Hood's watch.
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>But attorney Tom Wilner, who has filed suit on behalf of several
>detainees, argues they "are being held in conditions that are worse than
>the worst convicted murderer or rapist in the United States. Charles
>Manson lives in much better conditions than these people, and they
>haven't even been charged with a crime."
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>Haj Ali was released from Abu Ghraib as abruptly as he was arrested, NOW
>reports - he was tossed off the back of a truck. He now runs a program
>to document accounts of continuing torture at the prison.
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>NOW continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now).  Log on to hear more
>from Haj Ali; to read the military and administration documents on
>torture and prisoner's rights; to find out what the Supreme Court has to
>say about the rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay; to explore the
>history of the Geneva Conventions; and more.
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>Hosted by David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...must-see,
>make-your-blood-boil television..." by Newsday and "...public television
>at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Each week, the series sheds
>light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation and explores
>American democracy and culture through investigative reporting and
>interviews with major authors, leading thinkers, and artists. 
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Paul Etxeberri

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