BEYOND ABU GHRAIB: ACLU DOCUMENTS FURTHER TORTURE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

[LinuxInsurgent]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=95

Don't know if this is a duplicate (if so...moderators, please merge it with previous ones).

Anyway, I think it is important for the public to know this...we must absolutely dispel the idea that it's "a few rotten apples". This must enter the public's conscience...or the deterrent effect of public outrage (to prevent future occurences) will not happen.

We owe it to our past, present, and future victims not to let this slide.

[SoCalifer]

1. Also

There's evidence that its occured at Guantanamo Bay

[bloom]

2. snips

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
February 18, 2005, 12:01 AM

NEW YORK–The American Civil Liberties Union today released files obtained from the Army revealing previously undisclosed allegations of abuse by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the documents are reports that a detainee who was beaten and seriously injured was forced to drop his claims in order to be released from custody.


"The torture of detainees is too widespread and systemic to be dismissed as the rogue actions of a few misguided individuals,"? said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "The American public deserves to know which high-level government officials are ultimately responsible for the torture conducted in our name."?


The release of these documents follows a federal court order that directed the Defense Department and other government agencies to comply with a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case.


In one file released today, an Iraqi detainee claimed that Americans in civilian clothing beat him in the head and stomach, dislocated his arms, "stepped on nose until it ,"? stuck an unloaded pistol in his mouth and fired the trigger, choked him with a rope and beat his leg with a baseball bat. Medical reports corroborated the detainee's account, stating that the detainee had a broken nose, fractured leg, and scars on his stomach. In addition, soldiers confirmed that Task Force 20 interrogators wearing civilian clothing had interrogated the detainee. However, after initially reporting the abuse, the detainee said that he was forced by an American soldier to sign a statement denouncing the claims or else be kept in detention indefinitely. He agreed.

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[Contrary1]

3. Kick for further discussion...

we can't let this one go unnoticed.