Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners were held in Abu Ghraib prison for long periods even though there was no evidence that they posed a security threat to US forces, a US Army report says.
The unpublished report, by Major-General Donald Ryder, reflects what other senior officers have described as a deep concern among some US officers and officials in Iraq over the refusal of top US commanders in Baghdad to authorise the release of so-called security prisoners. Some prisoners were held for interrogation at Abu Ghraib.
General Ryder, the army's provost marshal, reported that some Iraqis had been held for months for nothing more than expressing "displeasure or ill will" towards the US occupying forces.
The report, drafted in November, said the process for deciding which arrested Iraqis posed security risks justifying imprisonment violated the Pentagon's own policies. It also said the conditions in which they were held sometimes violated the Geneva conventions.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/30/1085855439930.html
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