May 4, 2004

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WH cabana-boy ignored prison torture warnings
Former Iraqi human rights minister Abdel Basset Turki said Bush lackey Paul Bremer knew way back in November that Iraqi prisoners were being abused in US detention centers - and did nothing.

CIA officers, private contractors allegedly involved
Between October and December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib Prison and Porn Playhouse, numerous incidents of 'sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several prisoners by at least six US military police, and were actively encouraged by intelligence officers.'

When one Iraqi prisoner was so stressed by questioning -- possibly by CIA officers -- that he died, his body was packed in ice for a day and then taken from the jail with a mock intravenous drip in his arm to disguise his death.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, claimed the bold behaviour of the soldiers in posing for extremely graphic photographs with the prisoners "suggests they had nothing to hide from their superiors" Among the alleged abuses were: breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees... beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair... threatening male detainees with rape... sodomising a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.

Abuse story a blow to US claims of moral high ground
No shit.

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