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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:39 PM
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Unqualified US medics carried out amputations at Abu Ghraib
Edited on Tue Feb-08-05 08:29 AM by Skinner
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/20050206/ts_alt_afp/usiraqprisonerhealth&printer=1


Unqualified 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.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:45 PM
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1. Oy
This just painst a picture of a facility out of control. I don't think the abuses at Abu Ghraib were, for the most part, premeditated. Instead the Bush Adminstrations criminal lack of planning and desire to do this war on the cheap created total chaos. Abu Ghraib is just one of the more visible reflections of that chaos.

I can't believe President Bush got a second four years.

Bryant
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