Group says records show US detainee abuse cover-up

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21443139.htm

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - American commanders in Iraq prevented an autopsy on a detainee who died in U.S. custody with multiple wounds, an Army document made public on Tuesday showed, in a case that rights activists said suggested a prisoner abuse cover-up.

The December 2003 death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem at a U.S. prison near Mosul was described in one of dozens of Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union. The group, which has been sharply critical of the Bush administration over the detainee abuse issue, obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act.

The ACLU said the documents revealed cases in which U.S. commanders in Iraq thwarted military investigations into the deaths of prisoners held in Iraq. The U.S. government has faced criticism at home and abroad over the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A Jan. 1, 2004, memo written by Army criminal investigators said 44-year-old Abdul Kareem appeared to be healthy when captured the previous month. But he was discovered dead in his cell only days after being imprisoned, the memo stated.

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1. This would not have happened if shrub didn't have a hardon for

his daddy's old business partner.... or was it Cheney's? I get confused what with all the legalities and so forth. The way I understand it now... anything shrub says is ok is legal.

Imagine if Clinton was prez and any and I do mean ANY of this had happened under his watch, INCLUDING 911. The prick republican congress would have burned him at the stake and asked questions later.

Tell me if I have this wrong....

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2. Ditto, Gore. Only this would not have happened if Gore had won.

He would not have ignored those warnings. It is a nightmare that these crooks have now stolen two elections or more and have brought this crime down on our heads.