US officers knew of abuse, officials say

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NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WASHINGTON

US military officials in Baghdad said this week that military lawyers and some colonels had received internal documents that reportedly cited complaints of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison starting in November, about two months before top military officials say they were alerted to the abuse.

The disclosure of the documents has raised new questions about whether top military officers knew about the abuse before January, when a soldier alerted them to photographs of abused prisoners at the facility just west of Baghdad.

At least 20 complaints of abuse were reported in the routine memos, according to interviews of military intelligence personnel, including the beating of five former Iraqi generals in November who were blamed for causing prisoner riots. After reviewing 106 of the memos this week, the military officials said they found only one complaint, in which a prisoner said he had been handcuffed too long, but said that thousands of additional files had not been reviewed.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/06/20/2003175834

[Disturbed]

1. The knew and did nothing about it!

War Crimes were approved and sanctioned by the Pres, VP, Sec. of Defense, State Dept, Justice Dept. and others. congress knew about this way before the photos were shown on TV. All of this outrage is phony.My guess is that they thought that they could keep the photos from coming out. Someone forgot to burn them and destroy the discs. What they also didn't figure on is that they would be circulating on the Net. The photos and videos are what BushCo are outraged with, not the "abuse" and torures.

[BeHereNow]

2. Yup, Yup and

Yup.
Absolutely.
BHN

[donsu]

3. Prison for all those who knew about it and did nothing to stop it

to know and not do anything makes the person just as guilty as the person doing the torture.