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U.S. arming of Iraqi police skates close to legal line -
Leahy crafted the restrictions after disclosures in the 1990s of abuses by U.S.-supported forces in Latin America. The disclosures included the public release of training manuals that advocated abusive techniques and were employed to train Latin American officials in their home countries and at the former U.S. Army School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Ga.   4/15/06

Roots of Abu Ghraib in CIA techniques -
50 years of refining, teaching torture found in interrogation manuals   11/5/04

Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past -
  5/12/04

Textbook Repression: US Training Manuals Declassified -
Several recently declassified US military training manuals show how US agents taught repressive techniques and promoted the violation of human rights throughout Latin America and around the globe. The manuals provide the paper trail that proves how the US trained Latin American and other militaries to infiltrate and spy upon civilians and groups, including unions, political parties, and student and charitable organizations; to treat legal political opposition like armed insurgencies; and to circumvent laws on due process, arrest, and detention.   9/1/97

Army's Project X Had Wider Audience -
Clandestine Operations Training Manuals Not Restricted to Americas   3/6/97

Be All That You Can Be: Your Future as an Extortionist -
Through the 1980’s, the United States Army trained Latin American police and military officers in techniques that the Pentagon now acknowledges were “clearly objectionable and possibly illegal”: torture, extortion, censorship, false arrest, execution and the “neutralizing” of enemies.   10/6/96

Manuals for Murderers -
Father Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest doing time in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, is vindicated -- and angry. He is steaming in his cell because the Army has finally admitted something he knew all along -- namely, that the School of the Americas trained its students to torture, execute and "disappear" fellow citizens who disagreed with them.   9/26/96

U.S. Trainers Cited Possible Executions -
The School of the Americas, a United States military academy for Latin American officers, used training manuals that contained references to executing guerrillas and beatings as methods of obtaining information.   9/21/96

U.S. Instructed Latins on Executions, Torture -
U.S. Army intelligence manuals used to train Latin American military officers at an Army school from 1982 to 1991 advocated executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion against insurgents, Pentagon documents released yesterday show.   9/21/96