Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/international/middleeast/19abuse.html

As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004,
an elite Special Operations forces unit converted
one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near
Baghdad into a top-secret detention center.

There, American soldiers made one of the former
Iraqi government's torture chambers into their
own interrogation cell. They named it the Black Room.

The Black Room was part of a temporary detention
site at Camp Nama, the secret headquarters of a
shadowy military unit known as Task Force 6-26.

Located at Baghdad International Airport, the camp
was the first stop for many insurgents on their way
to the Abu Ghraib prison a few miles away.

Placards posted by soldiers at the detention area advised,
"NO BLOOD, NO FOUL." The slogan, as one Defense Department
official explained, reflected an adage adopted by
Task Force 6-26: "If you don't make them bleed,
they can't prosecute for it."

According to Pentagon specialists who worked with the unit,
prisoners at Camp Nama often disappeared into a detention
black hole, barred from access to lawyers or relatives,
and confined for weeks without charges. "The reality is,
there were no rules there," another Pentagon official said. ...