New Iraqi prisoner abuse allegations surface

[Ms_Mary]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/12/21/prisoner-abuse041221.html

"Last Updated Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:06:47 EST

WASHINGTON, D.C. - American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners by strangling them, beating them and placing lit cigarettes in their ears, even after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal came to light in April 2004, according to new allegations.

Internal FBI memorandums made public on Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union included detailed reports of detainees in Iraq being chained for long periods, left to defecate on themselves in cold prison cells, and other inhumane treatment.

The documents allegedly provide a paper trail implicating senior U.S. government officials in the illegal practices carried out by U.S. soldiers. "

[Supersedeas]

1. NPR claims that the FBI report was a CYA b/c of FBI impersonators

Anyone else hear that?

[Tempest]

3. Pentagon interrogators 'impersonated' FBI

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3135604a12,00.html

US Defence Department interrogators impersonated FBI agents at the Guantanamo Bay prison to avoid being held accountable when they used "torture techniques" on a prisoner held there in the US war on terrorism, according to FBI emails made public today.

[leftchick]

2. "senior U.S. government officials "

do they mean like aWol*?