http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/20050206/ts_alt_afp/usiraqprisonerhealth&printer=1Unqualified US military medics stationed at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison carried out amputations, recycled used chest tubes and lacked medical supplies to treat the overcrowded jail's inmates after the fall of Baghdad, according to a report.
The Time magazine report, to hit newsstands Monday, also said that a medic was ordered, by one account, to cover up a homicide inside the jail.
Although the prison just outside Baghdad was jammed with as many as 7,000 detainees -- some of whom displayed serious mental illnesses -- no US doctor was in residence for most of 2003 following the US-led invasion of Iraq.
The report said "with straitjackets unavailable, tethers -- like the leash held by Private Lynndie England -- were put to use at Abu Ghraib to control unruly or mentally disturbed detainees, sometimes with the concurrence of a doctor."
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they also murdered a prisoner they dubbed "Ice Man" and officers told them not to talk about it.
now - supposedly - Abu Ghraib has 52 bed hospital and 200 highly trained medical personnel. sure it does.
Rummy and pals need to be in prison.