The opposition Iraqiya bloc says the allegations demonstrate the need to ensure al-Maliki does not succeed in staying in office through the political dealmaking that has dragged on since March 7 national elections that failed to produce a clear winner.
"The kind of practices and violations committed by al-Maliki is what makes us insist on a mechanism to participate in the decision-making because al-Maliki wants to have all powers in his hands," said Iraqyia spokeswoman Maysoun al-Damlouji.
"Putting all the security powers in the hands of one person who is the general commander of the armed forces have led to these abuses and torture practices in Iraqi prisons."
There was an attack on a UN office in Afghanistan. By those standard-bearers for the Religion of Peace, of course.
A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and burqas attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.
The Afghan Ministry of Interior said three guards working at the compound were injured.
DADT being fought against by Republicans? Actually, yes.
The decorated Iraq war veteran had been serving in the Army, with some in his unit aware that he was gay. And yet, he said, no one had ever tried to get the officer discharged under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"This is not an example of why the policy works, it's an example of why it is broken," he said.
Almost two years later, Cooper finds himself leading a 19,000-member group for gay Republicans that has managed to accomplish what its fellow gay rights activists on the left have not — bring the 1993 Clinton-era law closer than it has ever been to being abolished.
A federal judge ruled last month in a lawsuit brought by the Log Cabin Republicans in 2004 that the ban on openly gay troops was unconstitutional, and ordered the Pentagon to stop its enforcement. An appeals court has temporarily frozen that order while it considers a government request to suspend it pending an appeal of the case.
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