{"id":677,"date":"2013-04-30T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/30\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:45","slug":"indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/04\/30\/indicting-the-us-government-for-crimes-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicting the US Government for crimes against humanity \u2013 unsealing the evidence \u00ab Darker Net"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…details have been released … of a 15 month investigation by the Guardian and the BBC into torture centres in Iraq, coordinated by US Special Forces commander, James Steele, and former US General Petraeus. Add in evidence of system-wide torture and massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan as compiled by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism … with additional evidence from a number of other sources…<\/p>\n

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