Emboldened by a fresh piece of congressional legislation requiring the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation to release the names of its students and instructors for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, the civil rights activists behind the annual School of the Americas protest are more confident than ever the Fort Benning-based institute will be shuttered in the coming year.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Defense Department says a Fort Benning soldier from Colorado Springs has died in Iraq of injuries from a noncombat incident.
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation was established in 2001 when the U.S. Congress passed — and then President Bill Clinton signed — the Defense Authorization Act. The institute provides professional education and training for civilian, military and law enforcement students from nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to the institute’s Web site.
