Iraq: "Mr. Jamadi's arms had nearly been pulled from their sockets"

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Files Show New Abuse Cases in Afghan and Iraqi Prisons

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A cache of documents disclosed Thursday provides several instances of prisoner abuse by American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq that appeared to have been investigated only briefly. The documents, released by the American Civil Liberties Union, include one file in which an Iraqi detainee asserted that Americans in civilian clothing beat him repeatedly, dislocated his shoulder, stepped on his nose until it broke, choked him with a rope and hit him in the leg with a bat. Medical reports in the file confirmed the broken nose and fractured leg.

Another case still under investigation by the military and the Central Intelligence Agency involves the death in 2003 of a prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, who had been in C.I.A. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Mr. Jamadi's corpse was wrapped in plastic and packed in ice before being smuggled out of the prison, in an apparent effort to evade notice from military guards. The Jamadi case is not part of the cache of documents released by the civil liberties union.

An Associated Press article on Thursday cited investigative reports in saying that Mr. Jamadi had been found suspended by his wrists, which had been handcuffed behind his back. The dispatch said that soldiers who found his body said Mr. Jamadi's arms had nearly been pulled from their sockets.

The A.P. said it had been shown the reports by a lawyer for a member of the Navy Seals who has been under investigation in the matter, apparently as part of an attempt to show that the C.I.A. bore primary responsibility for the death. Mr. Jamadi's death has been ruled a homicide, and the incident is being reviewed by both the Navy and the C.I.A.'s inspector general. An autopsy found that Mr. Jamadi died of head wounds, and intelligence officials have sought to cast blame on members of the Seals who they said had hit him in the head with their rifle butts before handing him over to the C.I.A.