A trail of torture at hands of US forces (AUS Report)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11957842%255E2703,00.html

Sarah Baxter
January 17, 2005

THE picture of Charles Graner, the convicted ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, giving the thumbs-up in front of a dead Iraqi is not as famous as those of detainees stacked in a human pyramid of naked flesh, held on a dog leash or hooded for mock execution.

Yet the image of the corpse wrapped in polythene, his right eye bandaged, his nose broken and his mouth open as if gasping for his last breath, signifies that darker practices than sadistic games have taken place in US-run jails in Iraq.

It is part of growing evidence that some detainees have been tortured and beaten to death by US forces.

Graner, 36, was sentenced to 10 years in jail yesterday after being convicted at a court martial of assault, battery, maltreatment, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty. To the last, he insisted that he was just following orders to soften up prisoners prior to their interrogation. This week, his girlfriend and smiling accomplice, Lynndie England, faces her own court martial. England, 21, recently gave birth to Graner's child.

Neither of them was responsible for any deaths of detainees. But away from the media spotlight, an unidentified Navy Seal lieutenant was accused in pre-trial hearings in San Diego, California, last week of assaulting and maltreating the Iraqi in the photograph, Monathel al-Jamaily, who died in November 2003.
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