Classified Memo Reveals Iraqi Prisoners as "Starving"

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Classified Memo Reveals Iraqi Prisoners as "Starving"
by Jason Leopold


A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in Western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”

“The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S forces in western Iraq.

The classified document, leaked to the website Wikileaks, a website where whistleblowers can "reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations," was authenticated by the organization.

The memo contains other shocking revelations about conditions at the jail, including a massive shortage of food and water. The prison is said to be run by Iraqi officials. US Marines oversee operation of the facility.

“I found the conditions there to be exactly (unbelivable {sic} over crowding, total lack of anything approaching even minimal levels of hygiene for human beings, no food, little water, no ventilation) to those described in the recent (18 February) FOX news artickle by Michael Totten entitled the "Dungeon of Fallujah.,” says Kelly’s memo click here “We need to go to general quarters on this issue right now... To state that the current system is broken would erroneously imply that there is a system in place to be broken."

Totten, an independent journalist, said the prison can house a maximum of 110 prisoners but he discovered that there were more then 900 cramped into the facility. US contractors built the prison in 2005 which is located next to the US Joint Communications Center is

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[magellan]

1. Saddam lives on. n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. From two days ago....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3066526&mesg_id=3066526

I think this is the same issue and it makes me so angry.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. Damn it to hell!!!

Honest to gawd, this administration has single-handedly created several generations of folks who have legitimate reason to hate this nation.

[madokie]

4. I have problems believing it isn't by design too

There's some shit afoot and we need to find out just what it is before its too late if it isn't already. dick and w need to be locked up and waterboarded to find out just what they are up too. America has crossed over to the dark side and I'm not liking it one bit.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

5. For some, blowback is great,...it appears.

Seriously. The same friggin' cult has done the same friggin' thing over the last 50-some years and are rewarded in the same friggin' way --> big profits, big power, slow deterioration of human assistance programs.

Yeah. I certainly believe theirs is all by design.