'Shame on the Americans'
01/05/2004 21:57 - (SA)
American soldiers pose behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners.
(AP/Courtesy The New Yorker)
Baghdad, Iraq - A member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council
demanded on Saturday that Iraqi authorities investigate reports that
American guards abused inmates in the very prison where Saddam
Hussein's regime tortured its opponents.
The scandal broadened after Britain's Daily Mirror published new
photographs of a hooded Iraqi prisoner who reportedly was beaten by
British troops. The newspaper's front-page picture showed a soldier
apparently urinating on the prisoner.
Also on Saturday, The New Yorker magazine said it had obtained a US
Army report that Iraqi detainees were subjected to "sadistic, blatant
and wanton criminal abuses" at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
Sodomised with a light
Those abuses included threats of rape and the pouring of liquid from
chemical lights on detainees, said the internal report by Major
General Antonio Taguba. Detainees were beaten with a broom handle and
one was sodomised with "a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick,"
the report said, according to the magazine's May 10 issue.
The pictures have not been widely published by Iraqi newspapers, but
many Iraqis have seen them on Arabic satellite television stations.
"After what we saw, all Iraqis will attack the Americans now," said
Abdulilah Mohammed, 55, a Baghdad street vendor.
Some photos, aired first on CBS' 60 Minutes II showed two US soldiers
standing near the prisoners, clowning for the camera. Another showed a
hooded prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his hands.
CBS said the prisoner was told that if he fell off the box, he would
be electrocuted, although the wires were not connected to a power
supply.
"The Governing Council should investigate this because it is the
legitimate authority responsible of protecting the Iraqis," Governing
Council member Sondul Chapouk said. "During Saddam's time we rejected
such acts and after the liberation we still reject them."
Another council member, Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, said the
perpetrators must be punished "as war criminals" because "the dignity
of an Iraqi citizen is no less than the dignity of an American".
The Daily Mirror report quoted soldiers as saying the unarmed captive
shown in its photograph had been threatened with execution during
eight hours of abuse, and was left bleeding and vomiting. They said
the captive was then driven away and dumped from the back of a moving
vehicle, and it was not known whether he survived.
Even those Iraqis who have been most supportive of the American effort
here have been quick to speak out against the brutality at Abu Ghraib.
Governing Council member Mahmoud Othman, a member of the pro-US
Kurdish minority, warned the allegations had harmed the image of the
US military in Iraq.
"The Saddam era was full of executions and torture and we want the new
Iraq clean of such images," he said.
Another council member, former judge Dara Nor al-Din, described the
pictures as a "shame on the Americans."
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02 May 2004 12:18:13 PM |
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In article <4gk990dujvrqldbdpj5tjgmj6qpa0hc71l@4ax.com>, wrote:
'Shame on the Americans'
01/05/2004 21:57 - (SA)
American soldiers pose behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners.
(AP/Courtesy The New Yorker)
Baghdad, Iraq - A member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council
demanded on Saturday that Iraqi authorities investigate reports that
American guards abused inmates in the very prison where Saddam
Hussein's regime tortured its opponents.
And so the cover-up begins. According to Amnesty International, the US-led
Coalition Authority had been told of the abuses and ignored them.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.prisoner.reax/index.html
God Bless the soldier(s) with the guts to get those photos out to the media.
Woods
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03 May 2004 06:43:08 AM |
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On Sun, 02 May 2004 17:18:13 GMT, (Woodswun)
wrote:
In article <4gk990dujvrqldbdpj5tjgmj6qpa0hc71l@4ax.com>, wrote:
'Shame on the Americans'
01/05/2004 21:57 - (SA)
American soldiers pose behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners.
(AP/Courtesy The New Yorker)
Baghdad, Iraq - A member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council
demanded on Saturday that Iraqi authorities investigate reports that
American guards abused inmates in the very prison where Saddam
Hussein's regime tortured its opponents.
And so the cover-up begins. According to Amnesty International, the US-led
Coalition Authority had been told of the abuses and ignored them.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.prisoner.reax/index.html
God Bless the soldier(s) with the guts to get those photos out to the media.
Woods
And if they are smart, they will leave Iraq or better yet mutiny
against their commander before the rest of them are sent home in
bodiebags, oh yeah, the media will cover that up as well.
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