From The Associated Press, 5/1/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--prisonerabuse0501may01,0,2334251.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
NEW YORK --
Iraqi detainees were subject to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal
abuses" at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a U.S.
Army report obtained by The New Yorker magazine.
The internal report detailed such abuses as pouring phosphoric liquid
from chemical lights on detainees, pouring cold water on naked
detainees and threats of rape, the magazine says in an article for its
May 10 issue.
Other mistreatment of prisoners included "beating detainees with a
broom handle and a chair" and "sodomizing a detainee with a chemical
light and perhaps a broom stick," the report said, according to the
magazine.
The report, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and completed
in February, said the findings were based on "detailed witness
statements and the discovery of extremely graphic photographic
evidence," The New Yorker said.
Photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused were first broadcast
Wednesday on CBS' "60 Minutes II."
Images appeared in newspapers around the Middle East on Saturday, and
The New York Times published two in its Saturday editions.
Six U.S. soldiers facing courts-martial in the abuse allegations have
been reassigned in Iraq; their boss, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade, and at least seven
others have been suspended from their duties the prison, according to
the U.S. military.
President Bush has condemned the mistreatment, saying he shared "a
deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were
treated."
He said that is "not the way we do things in America."
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Another sickness bred by the Bush-created quagmire.
Harry
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