Interrogation Techniques At 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' Revealed (Contains Disturbing Footage)

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Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates

Ian Cobain
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 5 2010 12.17 GMT

Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK's Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.

The court was informed that there is evidence detainees were starved, deprived of sleep, subjected to sensory deprivation and threatened with execution at the shadowy facilities near Basra operated by the Joint Forces Interrogation Team (JFIT).

It also received allegations that JFIT's prisoners were beaten and forced to kneel in stressful positions for up to 30 hours at a time, and that some were subjected to electric shocks. Some of the prisoners say they were subjected to sexual humiliation by female soldiers, while others allege that they were held for days in cells as small as one metre square.

The evidence of abuse is emerging just weeks after defence officials admitted that British soldiers and airmen are suspected of being responsible for the murder and manslaughter of a number of Iraqi civilians in addition to the high-profile case of Baha Mousa, the hotel receptionist tortured to death by troops in September 2003. One man is alleged to have been kicked to death aboard an RAF helicopter, while two others died after being held for questioning.


Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/05/interrogation-techniques-iraq-inmates

Article on this in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4601495">More than 140 Iraqis take fight for 'torture' inquiry to the British High court[/b

[KansDem]

1. Remember, folks, 70-90% of Iraqi detainees were innocent...

...according to Jimmy Carter in his book Our Endangered Values. He was quoting statistics from the International Red Cross and US Army intelligence.

I don't know what information Bush and Cheney were after, but it should wasn't about their bogus war!

[nonoxy9]

2. Makes you proud! Our founding fathers created a document

that prohibited the government from kicking in our doors whenever they want, and 200 years later we're training our soldiers to go to other countries and kick in the doors of any male between 14 and 30 and hold them indefinitely without charge. With the thousands of innocent Iraqis we and our allies rounded up, I would say 70-90% is conservative!