Iraq prisoner abuse went on until July-US magazine

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04211771.htm

LOS ANGELES, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners continued at least three months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was revealed, according to accounts by alleged victims published on Tuesday in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

Vanity Fair writer Donovan Webster, in a report on 60 hours of interviews he conducted with 10 former detainees including a 15-year-old boy, quoted several accounts of mistreatment that included Iraqi prisoners being sexually assaulted by American soldiers or being hooded, beaten, subjected to electric shock and kept in cages or crates. snip

In one example cited in the article, a 15-year-old Iraqi identified only as N said he was pulled from a wooden crate he'd been forced to crouch inside, wearing handcuffs and blacked-out ski goggles, for 11 days and taken to the bathroom against his will where he was sexually assaulted.

He said he was again sexually assaulted two days later in the prison north of Baghdad but let go later in the day when a soldier apologized to him for being illegally detained and gave him $50. N had been held with several members of his family who also said they were mistreated.

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[purduejake]

1. And I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is STILL happening.

[Benhurst]

2. Yeah, like it's ever stopped. The administration is planning

permanent structures in Cuba and considering the use of others around the world in countries with like-minded (fascist) governments.

I'm sure our new Attorney General will be a big help in the torture department.

Why do they hate us? It must be our freedoms. Yeah. Sure.

[struggle4progress]

4. But without cameras present now ... eom

[Barrett808]

3. Yes, I'm quite convinced that it's still happening -- on a huge scale

I sometimes talk about Rumsfeld's "privatized torture achipelago." I should trademark that. Looks like this kind of horror is an integral part of the PNAC mafia's terror playbook.