Blackwater guards pumped on steroids, lawsuit alleges --Suit accuses Blackwater of fostering "culture of lawlessness." A quarter of Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq use steroids and other "judgment-altering substances," according to a lawsuit filed by the families of several Iraqis killed or wounded in a Baghdad shooting in September.
Afghanistan Cannabis Crop Up 40 Percent Cannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year, to 173,000 acres from 123,550 in 2006, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its 2007 opium survey. The crop is being grown in at least 18 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, according to the survey released last month.
Weeping Habib tells of G-Bay torture --Australians and Americans present at a number of interrogations and interviews. Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib says he was injected with drugs in front of an Australian official while being interrogated in Pakistan. Mr Habib was visibly distressed while giving evidence today at a second-stage defamation hearing in the NSW Supreme Court, weeping and at one point asking for a break as he spoke of his alleged torture.
Afghanistan Cannabis Crop Up 40 Percent Cannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year, to 173,000 acres from 123,550 in 2006, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its 2007 opium survey. The crop is being grown in at least 18 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, according to the survey released last month.
Weeping Habib tells of G-Bay torture --Australians and Americans present at a number of interrogations and interviews. Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib says he was injected with drugs in front of an Australian official while being interrogated in Pakistan. Mr Habib was visibly distressed while giving evidence today at a second-stage defamation hearing in the NSW Supreme Court, weeping and at one point asking for a break as he spoke of his alleged torture.
Top State Dept lawyer seeks US clarity on torture The United States, accused of using torture on terrorism suspects, should make clearer what it permits during interrogation and what it does not, the State Department's top lawyer [John Bellinger] said on Tuesday.
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