Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails - Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042301027.html

Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, April 24, 2006; Page A01

BAGHDAD -- Last Nov. 13, U.S. soldiers found 173 incarcerated men, some of them emaciated and showing signs of torture, in a secret bunker in an Interior Ministry compound in central Baghdad. The soldiers immediately transferred the men to a separate detention facility to protect them from further abuse, the U.S. military reported.

Since then, there have been at least six joint U.S.-Iraqi inspections of detention centers, most of them run by Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated Interior Ministry. Two sources involved with the inspections, one Iraqi official and one U.S. official, said abuse of prisoners was found at all the sites visited through February. U.S. military authorities confirmed that signs of severe abuse were observed at two of the detention centers.

But U.S. troops have not responded by removing all the detainees, as they did in November. Instead, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, only a handful of the most severely abused detainees at a single site were removed for medical treatment. Prisoners at two other sites were removed to alleviate overcrowding. U.S. and Iraqi authorities left the rest where they were.

This practice of leaving the detainees in place has raised concerns that detainees now face additional threats. It has also prompted fresh questions from the inspectors about whether the United States has honored a pledge by Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that U.S. troops would attempt to stop inhumane treatment if they saw it.

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1. Horrible ...

But Porter Goss, et. al. will ensure that the American Sheeple will NEVER hear of the even "more horrible" black ops secret prisons. Feel the chill fall over the entire CIA as a 61 y.o., 26 year serving CIA senior analyst is ripped into pieces and held up for the world to see? After all, it's more moral to continue to cover up war crime atrocities than to rat-out the evil in this Executive Branch. Only our Dear Leader can deem which leaks are unclassified.

Rest assured that the Red Cross will not have an opportunity to monitor black ops torture camps overseas because "The Public" will never be allowed such knowledge. Especially if an example is made of Ms. Mary McCarthy, IMO an American Patriot. :(

[lyonn]

2. So we get rid of Saddam to bring democracy and freedom

The average American must be so buried in dealing with everyday life they don't know what is really happening in Iraq. Bush's reasoning for attacking Iraq went from WMD and and Osama was Saddam's buddy and they were gonna' get us to bring democracy to the ME. It looks like the U.S.A. is torturing, attacking randomly innocent people in the pursuit of the "enemy". We left all the rockets, guns & ammo, stockpiles of weapons for the Iraqis that want us out of there to use on us, IED's, and rockets used to attack large areas including the Green Zone. This war has gone from terrible to insane and no change in sight.