ACLU says prison abuse witnesses threatened [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

ACLU says prison abuse witnesses threatened


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Workers who saw abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were threatened by U.S. special forces who confiscated photos of a prisoner they allegedly punched, U.S. government memos released by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed.

Defense personnel also had their e-mails monitored and were ordered by a special operations task force "not to talk to anyone'' about what they saw, said one memo released Tuesday and written by the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, who complained to the Pentagon.

Prisoners arriving at a detention center in Baghdad had "burn marks on their backs'' as well as bruises and some complained of kidney pain, according to the June 25, 2004, memo.
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The release of the ACLU documents came a day after The Associated Press reported that a senior FBI official wrote a letter to the Army's top criminal investigator complaining about "highly aggressive'' interrogation techniques at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay dating back to 2002 - more than a year before the scandal broke at the Iraqi prison.
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