Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees

[IChing]

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.


In June 2004, Stephen A. Cambone, a top Pentagon official, ordered his deputy, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, to look into allegations of detainee abuse at Camp Nama. In the windowless, jet-black garage-size room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces and, in a nearby area, used detainees for target practice in a game of jailer paintball. Their intention was to extract information to help hunt down Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to Defense Department personnel who served with the unit or were briefed on its operations.

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." >>>snip

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/international/middleeast/19abuse.html?ex=1300424400&en=e8755a4b031b64a1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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1. Sgt Smith put Peanut Butter on the POWs genitals at Abu Ghraib

And his Military attack dog Belgian shepherd then chowed down on the Peanut Butter

You won't see that on Faux News

[Mabus]

3. There is video

at least of the dog licking peanut butter off of fellow soliders

Soldiers Made Game of Scaring Prisoners

Associated Press | March 15, 2006
FORT MEADE, Maryland - An Army dog handler charged with abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq said he was competing with another canine team to frighten the prisoners into soiling themselves, a Soldier testified at a court-martial Tuesday.

The testimony on the second day of the trial was the most damaging evidence the government has presented against Sgt. Michael J. Smith.

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Ketzer (Sgt. John H. Ketzer, who had worked as an interrogator at the prison in Iraq, testified at trial) said Smith laughed as he told Ketzer shortly thereafter, "My buddy and I are having a contest to see if we can get them to (defecate on) themselves because we've already had some (urinate on) themselves."

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Smith is charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with five counts of maltreat of detainees, four counts of assault, two counts of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, one count of dereliction of duty and one count of indecency. The indecency allegation is that Smith had his dog lick peanut butter off the genitals of a male Soldier and the breasts of a female Soldier while another sergeant videotaped the act.

What a way to spread democracy.

[rodeodance]

2. "If you don't make them bleed, they can't prosecute for it."

.."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."