more horrific info about torture at Abu G

[bobbieinok]

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/news/item.php?keyid=8155&category=35&scategory=0

US Govt Memo: Workers Threatened Over Prison Abuse

AP
December 7, 2004

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The special forces also monitored e-mails sent by defense personnel and ordered them "not to talk to anyone" in the United States about what they saw, said one memo written by the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, who complained to his Pentagon bosses about the harassment.

In addition, the special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner who had been punched in the face.

..much more....

[0007]

1. General Miller brought big changes to Abu Ghraib

The release of the ACLU documents comes a day after The Associated Press reported that a senior FBI official wrote a letter to the Army´s top criminal investigator complaining about "highly aggressive" interrogation techniques at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay dating back to 2002 — more than a year before the scandal broke at the Iraqi prison.
In the July 14 letter obtained by the AP, Harrington suggested that the Pentagon didn´t act on FBI complaints about four incidents at Guantanamo, including a female interrogator grabbing a detainee´s genitals and bending back his thumbs, another where most of a prisoner´s head was covered with duct tape and a third where a dog was used to intimidate a detainee who later was thrown into isolation and showed signs of "extreme psychological trauma."

The memos reveal behind-the-scenes tensions between the FBI and U.S. military and intelligence task forces running prisoner interrogations at Guantanamo and in Iraq as the Bush administration sought better intelligence to fight terrorists and the deadly Iraq insurgency.

"These documents tell a damning story of sanctioned government abuse — a story that the government has tried to hide and may well come back to haunt our own troops captured in Iraq," said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the New York-based ACLU.

The documents were released only after a federal court ordered the Pentagon and other government agencies to comply with a year-old request filed under the Freedom of Information Act filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace.

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, which directs special military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, declined to comment on specific allegations.

[Ian David]

2. The Repugs won't care

Every Republican I know approves of torturing "terrorists," and they make no distinction between the words "muslim" or "arab" or terrorist.

This will just make them cheer Bush louder.