To Halt Abuses, U.S. Will Inspect Jails Run by Iraq

[ECH1969]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 - American military officers will inspect hundreds of detention centers and embed with Iraqi police commando units and other Interior Ministry forces to try to halt widespread abuses uncovered by raids on two Iraqi-run detention centers in Baghdad in the last month, the American ambassador pledged Tuesday.

The ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, said at a news conference that "over 100" of the 169 detainees whom American troops found on Nov. 15 in an Interior Ministry bunker in the Jadriya neighborhood had been abused, a far higher figure than the Americans had previously disclosed. In the second raid last week, on another makeshift detention center run by a notorious police commando unit, the Wolf Brigade, as many as 26 of the 625 detainees jammed into the overcrowded center had been abused, Mr. Khalilzad said.

He gave no details of the abuse, but an Iraqi official said some of the detainees held by the Wolf Brigade had been "severely" tortured. The official insisted on anonymity, citing a clampdown on discussing the latest raid that he and other Iraqi officials said had been ordered by high-ranking Iraqis who were concerned about the effects that new disclosures about torture might have on the election on Thursday. Most victims in the two detention centers were Sunni Arabs, already estranged from the Shiite-led transitional government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/international/middleeast/14abuse.html

[Webster Green]

1. Bwahahahaha!

Give me a fucking break!

[Lerkfish]

2. in other news: fox posted as guard on hen house

[Stockholm]

11. Sad but thats about sums up my thought at the moment.

n/t

[Caution]

3. Still wont let the ICRC in though. Oh yeh and what about that sovereignty

thing? I thought we weren't an occupying power?

[Rose Siding]

4. This could put The Onion out of business

[Kagemusha]

5. Khalilzad better talk to Rumsfeld then.

Rumsfeld sure as hell has no intention of having American military officers inspect the prisons of the sovereign Iraqi government after the elections. He's made that plenty clear in public (standing beside Gen. Pace) and private and Khalilzad is only an ambassador.

[POAS]

6. Hen House meet Mr. Fox

[mmonk]

7. oakey doakey

:rofl:

[mmonk]

8. A kinder, gentler torture

[architect359]

9. Riiight.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[shraby]

10. There they go again!! Calling it "abuses".

It's torture folks, plain and simple. Abuse is calling someone an idiot. Torture is pulling out fingernails, using electric shock, waterboarding, etc.

[Demeter]

12. And That Will Reassure EVERYBODY (not)

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

[slampoet]

13. in other news...

Elizabeth Taylor gives Liza Minelli marriage advise.