The Abu Ghraib Scandal You Don't Know

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1. Unqualified medics 'did amputations' (at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison )

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12172134%255E1702,00.html

Unqualified medics 'did amputations'

From correspondents in Washington
February 07, 2005

UNQUALIFIED US military medics stationed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison reportedly carried out amputations and recycled used chest tubes.

A Time magazine report today said staff also lacked medical supplies to treat inmates and that a medic was ordered, by one account, to cover up a homicide inside the jail.

Although the prison just outside Baghdad was jammed with as many as 7000 detainees - some of whom displayed serious mental illnesses - no US doctor was in residence for most of 2003 following the US-led invasion of Iraq.

The report said "with straitjackets unavailable, tethers - like the leash held by Private Lynndie England - were put to use at Abu Ghraib to control unruly or mentally disturbed detainees, sometimes with the concurrence of a doctor".

Private England has been charged with abusing Iraqi detainees at the jail. She was infamously photographed holding a leash attached to the neck of a naked Iraqi inmate sprawled on a cell block floor.
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