Unit Says It Gave Earlier Warning of Abuse in Iraq

[floda]

Abuse in Iraq

New York Times



FRANKFURT, June 13 Beginning in November, a small unit of interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison began reporting allegations of prisoner abuse, including the beatings of five blindfolded Iraqi generals, in internal documents sent to senior officers, according to interviews with military personnel who worked in the prison.

The disclosure of the documents raises new questions about whether senior officers in Iraq were alerted about serious abuses at the prison before January. Top military officials have said they only learned about abuses then, after a soldier came forward with photographs of the abuse.

"We were reporting it long before this mess came out," said one of several military intelligence soldiers interviewed in Germany and the United States who asked not to be identified for fear they would jeopardize their careers.

The Red Cross has said it alerted American military commanders in Iraq to abuses at Abu Ghraib in November. But the disclosures that the military's own interrogators had alerted superiors to abuse back then in internal documents has not been previously reported.

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[chelsea0011]

1. And shouldn't this story be leading the morning AM shows?

I read it in the Times and thought that this with Ashwipes refusing to release memos last week that this would lead the AM "news" shows. No way. we need more followups to the planning of Reagan's funeral. Jeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[The Stranger]

2. NPR (Neocon Public Relations) today totally fucking ignored this story.

Innskeep and company focused on the Neocon push to invade, occupy, torture and steal Iran, John Kerry's "flip-flopping" and some speech by war criminal Cheney.

[mom cat]

3. I just love my "off button"!...and I don't waste my money on the Times

anymore. They mostly print what is not fit to use as toilet paper. It's time to boycott all sources of mis-information and keep building our alternative networks.

[struggle4progress]

4. "It ain't me babe No No No It ain't me babe It ain't me you're lookin for"