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2004/4/29 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:13467 Activity:moderate
4/29    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/29/1083224523783.html
        US Troops torturing Iraqi prisoners.
        \_ Been there, done that, *and* have them on trial right now which
           is why you know about it.
        \_ eh, the article doesn't mention "torture" not even once
           abuse of prisoners, yes, and they should be punished for it, and
           it's a shame, and it reflects poorly on the U.S.
        \_ Correction:  Some scumbag troops were doing horrible things, and
           will be investigated by a military court.  Your title suggests it's
           still going on and is being done so with approval.
           \_ Less reported is all the secondhand reports that individual
              soldiers and units have been systematically stealing from
              the Iraqi populace.
           \_ hey, it works for al-jazeera :-P
           \_ don't be the citizen of a puppet government
        \_ compare to the crowds in IRAQ who drag bodies through the streets
           and hang them from bridges, and nothing is done to them?
           \_ compare to the thousands killed by the cluster bombs
              when we invaded IRAQ....
              \_ compare 9/11!!!!1!
                 \_ Pales in comparison to the number of innocent
                    Iraqis died since the war.
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www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/29/1083224523783.html
Photo: Sky News United States soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses. The charges, first announced by the military in March, were documented by photographs taken by guards in the prison. Some of the photographs, and descriptions of others, were broadcast in the US on Wednesday by a CBS television news program and were verified by military officials. Of the six people reported in March to be facing preliminary charges, three have been recommended for courts martial. The program reported that poorly trained US reservists were forcing Iraqis to conduct simulated sexual acts in order to break down their will before they were turned over to others for interrogation. In one photograph naked Iraq prisoners stand in a human pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English. In another, a prisoner stands on a box, his head covered, wires attached to his body. The news show said that, according to the army, he had been told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted. Other photographs show male prisoners positioned to simulate sex with each other. The photographs were taken inside Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where US forces have been holding hundreds of Iraqis. Gary Myers, the lawyer for one of the enlisted men who has been charged, said the military had treated the six enlisted soldiers as scapegoats and had failed to deal adequately with the responsibilities of senior commanders and intelligence personnel involved in the interrogations. Officers at the prison, including a brigadier-general, faced administrative review, officials said. Mr Myers said that the accused men, all from a reserve military police unit, were told to soften up the prisoners by more senior interrogators, some of whom they believe were intelligence officials and outside contractors. Photo: Sky News Eight US soldiers died and four were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mahmudia, a southern suburb of Baghdad, yesterday. The latest fatalities brought the number of US soldiers killed in action since the invasion of Iraq to 533. President George Bush said in Washington that US commanders would take "whatever actions necessary to secure Falluja", a city marines have besieged for three weeks. Most of the city was returning to normal, Mr Bush added. But the city appeared anything but normal on Wednesday as US warplanes dropped laser-guided bombs and fired airborne howitzers.