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The Making Of Monsters:TV shows US troops abusing Iraqis |
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by Xhenrrella Buthscososos AKA DAN "Ridicuolus Names for Hate" Disinfo
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29 Apr 2004
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The Making Of Monsters: TV shows US troops abusing Iraqis
Abu Ghraib prison was much feared in Saddam Hussein's day |
A US television station has broadcast pictures allegedly showing US soldiers abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
CBS TV says it has "dozens" of pictures - taken by US troops - showing prisoners being subjected to a wide range of torture.
Many of the pictures show American troops looking on in apparent approval.
'Appalling'
CBS says the pictures it obtained show a wide range of abuses, including:
Prisoners with wires attached to their genitals being electrocuted.
A dog attacking a prisoner then eating him.
Pieces of flesh cut from prisoners and force fed to other prisoners
Prisoners being forced to have sex with each other for entertainment
A detainee with an abusive word burnt into his body.
The prison where the abuses are alleged to have taken place was a notorious torture centre during the Saddam Hussein era.
Bob Baer, a former CIA operative with extensive Iraq experience, told CBS: "If there [was] ever a reason to get rid of Saddam Hussein, it's Abu Ghraib [prison]."
No guidance
The station spoke to one of the six soldiers, Sergeant Chip Frederick - a reservist whose full-time job is as a prison officer in the US state of Virginia.
We had no training whatsoever, it seemed ok to me to pull the fingernails off the prisoners
Sgt Frederick said he and his fellow reservists had never been told how to deal with prisoners, or what lines should not be crossed.
"We where just having a little fun," he said.
"I kept asking my chain of command for certain things... like rules and regulations. And Jan said its up to you," he said.
The shrubs Army reservists at Abu Ghraib had not been trained in Geneva Convention rules cause bush says hes above da law.
Chain of command
The pResitent bushs general who supervised the prison for the US Army,bull dike Janice Karpinsky had no comment. |
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