Washington Post: CIA Uses Iraqi Paramilitaries To Torture Detainees.

[DistressedAmerican]

I was reading a long article out today about an Iraqi General that we tortured to death and buried down on page 3 were these repugnant details...

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs
Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 3, 2005; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941.html?sub=new

-Snip-
If they did not get what they wanted, the interrogators would deliver the detainees to a small team of the CIA-sponsored Iraqi paramilitary squads, code-named Scorpions, according to a military source familiar with the operation. The Jan. 18 memo indicates that it was "likely that indigenous personnel in the employ of the CIA interrogated MG Mowhoush."

Sometimes, soldiers and intelligence officers used the mere existence of the paramilitary unit as a threat to induce detainees to talk, one Army soldier said in an interview. "Detainees knew that if they went to those people, bad things would happen," the soldier said. "It was used as a motivator to get them to talk. They didn't want to go with the masked men."

The Scorpions went by nicknames such as Alligator and Cobra. They were set up by the CIA before the war to conduct light sabotage. After the fall of Baghdad, they worked with their CIA handlers to infiltrate the insurgency and as interpreters, according to military investigative documents, defense officials, and former and current intelligence officials.

-More at link above-

I had heard some rumors of us trainng paramilitary death squads along the lines of those used in Central America. Looks like this death is among their "accomplishments". Sure does not sound like they got any info from this guy before he was beaten and suffocated.

What are we doing?

Why the hell do Americans keep turning a blind eye?

What the FUCK?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Please edit. That's Washington Post not NY Post.

The NY post is a rightwing rag with zero credibility.

But, thanks for posting the story.

[DistressedAmerican]

3. Oops. Didn't feel right when I typed it either. Fixed!

[carnie_sf]

2. Big surprise there nt

[indepat]

4. Luckily only some 44% of Americans must like this sort of thing

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Willful ignorance and rationaization is a traditional American value.

Our "heroic" CIA thugs would never do anything like that! Just ask all the people they "helped" around the world like Patrice Lumumba, Mohammed Mossadegh, Salvador Allende, the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Hondurans, Angolans, Iranians, Afghans, Indians, etc, etc.

[DistressedAmerican]

6. Kicker.

[DistressedAmerican]

7. ...

[DistressedAmerican]

8. Punt