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Article: THE DOGS OF WAR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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DOGS HAVE BEEN SUCH A HIDEOUS INSTRUMENT OF STATE TERROR THAT
THEIR USE ON IRAQI PRISONERS IS CAUSE ALONE FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY
DONALD RUMSFELD TO RESIGN. Nazis used dogs for everything from
intimidation to eating people alive. Bull Connor's dogs in Birmingham
were an icon of the 1960s. South African police used dogs to enforce
apartheid.
In 2002 Rumsfeld approved the use of dogs to inspire fear in
detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The government claims that dogs were not
used at Guantanamo. But they became a prime tool of cruelty at Abu
Ghraib in Iraq, clearly violating the Geneva Convention on prisoners