NYT: Iraq to Investigate Alleged Abuse of 173 Detainees

[kpete]

Iraq to Investigate Alleged Abuse of 173 Detainees
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: November 15, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 15 - Iraq's government said today that it had ordered an urgent investigation of accusations that 173 detainees found in the basement of an Interior Ministry building had been tortured by their Iraqi captors. A senior Iraqi official who visited the detainees said two appeared paralyzed and others had had the skin peeled off their bodies by their abusers.

An Interior Ministry statement said flatly that there had been torture and that "instruments of torture," which it did not describe, were found in the building. The Interior Ministry's undersecretary for security, Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal, was similarly blunt.

"They were being abused," he told Reuters. "This is totally unacceptable treatment and it is denounced by the minister and everyone in Iraq." In a CNN interview, he was more graphic. "I saw signs of physical abuse by brutal beating, one or two detainees were paralyzed and some had skin peeling off various parts of their bodies," he said. "I've never seen a situation like this during the past two years in Baghdad. This is the worst."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1132117200&en=b44f1f7a3c8a4544&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[madeline_con]

1. "Proxy Government Clears Self of Wrongdoing" eom

[goclark]

2. And Iraqi ?soldiers did the torture? ? Interesting nt

[SoFlaJet]

3. Yea righ-tee-oh

Now they expect us to believe that we knew nothing about this?On the heels of everything going on right now with the we don't torture but we want to be able to torture WH rift.These people supposedly look like Belsen detainees...what they are doing in our names ladies and gentlemen is absolutely despicable

[shraby]

4. A few "bad apples"?

I'm sure that's what they'll find out. :eyes: :mad:

[NNN0LHI]

5. Its Brownies fault n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

6. Zarqawi? Clenis? ... Oooooo ... maybe Bin Laden, himself.

What fantastic story will be told to us?

Who knows ... but I'm willing to bet it will conveniently work in BushCo.'s favor, somehow.

[NNN0LHI]

7. The NYT trying to make the Iraq "government" sound like something...

...more than the puppets they are is not helping their credibility. Wonder if they realize that? Wonder if they care?

Don