CIA Torture Vigil ***some graphic images***

[babylonsister]

Run time: 06:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mCNof7Z-2I   Posted on YouTube: July 29, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 29, 2007 By DU Member: babylonsister Views on DU: 1055

 

[mikita]

1. thanks for posting this...

Very sad but important video. Two things I noticed sadly -- there weren't many young folks in there -- hopefully they were filming....

and I didn't hear too many honks as cars sped by. :-(

[whistle]

2. There are more players in the business of torture than just the CIA

...and military underlings. It is Big Business!

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May 4, 2004

Inside the Cells of Abu Ghraib
The CIA Privatized Torture
By KURT NIMMO

Damn video and digital cameras.

If not for the availability of these electronic devices, it is possible the world would have never viewed -- to its collective disgust -- the images of the hideous events that took place in the murky depths of the Abu Ghraib military prison.

It's safe to say US Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski -- who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade in Baghdad and will likely be held responsible for what happened inside Abu Ghraib -- regrets such devices ever existed.


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Late last year the Sunday Times reported the CIA was actively recruiting former agents from Saddam Hussein's notorious security force, Mukhabarat. Mohammed Abdullah, who had spent 10 years in the Mukhabarat and eight in Iraqi military intelligence, told the Sunday Times he was on the CIA's payroll -- hired to hunt down members of the resistance as well as Iraqis allegedly spying for Iran and Syria. "If successfully set up, the group would work in tandem with American forces but would have its own structure and relative independence," an anonymous intelligence officer told the Times. "It could be expected to be fairly ruthless in dealing with the remnants of Saddam." It does not seem to matter to the CIA or Bush, however, that many former members of Mukhabarat remain Saddam loyalists.

Considering the above, a pattern begins to emerge: the CIA runs the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq, from directing Mukhabarat in the field -- rounding up resistance fighters and their supporters -- to overseeing the operations of mercenaries (many recruited from Chilean and South African military services) and directing "interrogations" conducted by private companies such as CACI International, the Titan Corporation, and defense contractors.

Although individual soldiers are under investigation for abusing Iraqi detainees -- and Hersh names them in his article -- there is no mention of the CIA, military intelligence, or private corporations (this information was provided by Jullian Borger of the Guardian, aBritishnewspaper). As usual in such situations, lowly scapegoats will be sacrificed -- careers ruined, pensions lost -- and the real culprits will fade into the background, allowed to continue their repulsive work.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo05042004.html

[babylonsister]

3. Agreed, but that doesn't negate CIA's complicity. nt

[whistle]

4. No, not at all, they are all in the same shit stew and the CIA controls

...the money, so they are all compliant and thus all criminals.