Dogs and Other Harsh Tactics Linked to Military Intelligence - NYT

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/politics/22ABUS.html?hp

Excerpt: Military intelligence officers adopted several aggressive interrogation tactics without approval from senior military commanders.

WASHINGTON, May 21 — The use of dogs to intimidate prisoners during interrogation at Abu Ghraib in Iraq was approved by military intelligence officers at the prison, and was one of several aggressive tactics they adopted even without approval from senior military commanders, according to interviews gathered by Army investigators.

Intelligence officers also demanded strict limits on Red Cross access to prisoners as early as last October, delaying for a day what the military had previously described as an unannounced visit to the cellblock where the worst abuses occurred, according to a document from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The role of intelligence officers in the abuse scandal is still under investigation, and the newly disclosed documents provide further details of their involvement in abuses that so far have resulted in formal charges against the prison guards, but not the interrogators.

Other Army documents first obtained by The Denver Post provided new evidence that harsh treatment extended beyond Abu Ghraib to more American-run detention centers in Iraq, revealing details about three previously unreported incidents in which Iraqi prisoners died after questioning by American interrogators.

At the Pentagon on Friday, the Army revised an earlier estimate to say that it is now actively investigating the deaths of nine prisoners in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, and that eight had already been determined by medical examiners to be possible homicides, involving acts committed before or during an interrogation.

[corriger]

1. ah shit

From around 32 Friday to 9 or so Saturday? Right.

[daleo]

2. Bush prayed for them

And 23 of them came back to life.

[izzie]

3. But only Bush will go to heaven.

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[truthisfreedom]

4. dog heaven.

the only place left for him.

[saigon68]

6. SORRY SANCHEZ a/k/a Pistol Boy



SORRY SANCHEZ a/k/a Pistol Boy consiglieri to the Viceroy Pontius Paul Bremer I

His quote “ We are going to Kill the Shia Cleric Criminal Muqtada al-Sadr !! ”

SORRY PISTOL BOY also set the tone for loosening TONGUES at Abu Ghraib Prison



A U.S. soldier holds a trained dog in front of an Iraqi detainee inside the Abu Ghraib Prison, west
of Baghdad in this undated photo. Hundreds of unreleased photographs and short digital videos
depict U.S. soldiers using a wide variety of abusive techniques at Iraq news - web sites)'s Abu
Ghraib prison and appearing to enjoy the mistreatment, The Washington Post reported on May
21, 2004. Photo by Washington Post/Reuters

Sanchez also allowed his troops to use the Famous “WHITE CHAIR”

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5. UNMUZZLED POLICE DOGS BITING POWS IN THE TESTICLES

Will get a Man to talk in a hurry.

[Spazito]

7. Here's another article detailing more abuse...

Documents Provide New Details of Abuse

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The documents obtained by The Times also provide new details of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners.


Detainees were forced to participate in contests in which military police tried to see how many detainees they could make cry or urinate on themselves. Happy faces were drawn across the bare chest of one detainee, who was nicknamed "Happy Nipples."


Some of the documents are notes taken by an investigator as he worked his way down the cellblocks interviewing detainees. One prisoner told him he smelled alcohol on guards "many times." Another said he was whipped, beaten and held for 40 days in isolation. A third said "they beat me with a broom and stepped on my head with their feet."

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Two soldiers died and 13 others were injured in an attack Sept. 20 "as a direct result of obeying the orders given by the chain of command to continue with night operations in tents rather than hardened facilities," Son wrote. "Hardened facilities were available, and efforts were made to convince the chain of command to allow soldiers to work in the bunkered buildings or to discontinue night interrogation operations."

more, lots more

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/documentsprovidenewdetailsofabuse