US gave electric shocks to Iraqi prisoners

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/international/middleeast/14ABUS.html?pagewanted=2&hp

Two detainees reported having been given electric shocks at other holding facilities before arriving in Abu Ghraib, according to the interviews. One prisoner's file included photographs of burns on his body. "We didn't want people to know that we knew about it and didn't report it," the soldier said.

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The reports of abuse made by the Detainee Assessment Branch were often limited to one or two paragraphs in the "circumstances of capture" section of a memorandum recommending whether detainees should be released. Military officials acknowledged that the memorandums were read by judge advocates.

From there, military officials said, the lawyers reviewed a detainee's file, added some documents and sent it to a three-member Review and Appeal Board made up of General Karpinski, General Fast and a lawyer.

[thebigidea]

1. they hate us for our freedom!

http://www.terminalproduct.com/steadytorture.rm

[Eric J in MN]

2. interesting campaign commericial (nt)

nt

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Don't get hung up on testicalities

This is scrotal warfare.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Don't they have an entire wing devoted to the study of that

..at the school of the Americas?

You know, the Anastasio Somoza Memorial Department of High Voltage Gonadism.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Bush promised to turn the electric back on in Iraq!

That must have been what he meant!

[Warren DeMontague]

6. If those Iraqis had been in California...

They would have been paying $250 a (%@&ing $*@($@* mega&^#&#^ingwatt hour for the electricity coursing through their genitalia, Just like "Grandma %&@*&@%ing Millie"..