U.S. Reports 94 Cases of Prisoner Abuse

[Robbien]

WASHINGTON July 22, 2004 — The U.S. military has found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the fall of 2001, the Army's inspector general said Thursday in a long-awaited report made public at a hastily called Senate hearing.

The number is significantly higher than all other previous estimates given by the Pentagon, which had refused until now to give a total number of abuse allegations.

The inspector general investigation, ordered Feb. 10 after the allegations of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to the attention of top Army officials in Washington, concluded that there were no systemic problems that contributed to the abuse. In some cases, the report found, the abuse was abetted or facilitated by officers not following proper procedures.

. . .

In contrast to its own findings that there were no systemic problems, however, the Army report also cites a February report from the International Committee for the Red Cross that alleged that "methods of ill treatment" were "used in a systematic way" by the U.S. military in Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040722_980.html

and they made to hastily call a Senate hearing in order to dump this news at the same time of the 911 commission report

[louis-t]

1. Boy, those "6 or 7 guys"

were really busy.

[leQ]

2. and lets not forget the contractors' complicity in this

that i'm sure were not in the scope of the IG's investigation.

[KansDem]

3. Yeah...

They must've had a huge tankful of steam to let off...:eyes:

[central scrutinizer]

4. media sticking with the script

Make sure to call it abuse or ill treatment. It would be unpatriotic to call it gang-raping kids, tying electrodes to genitals, attacking naked prisoners with dogs. For God's sake do not call it TORTURE.

[antigone382]

How ridiculous.

Nevermind that procedures put in place by high-ranking administration officials, such as Donald Rumsfeld, created an atmosphere extremely conducive to abuse and torture; that military interrogators encouraged brutality and gross public humiliation to coerce prisoner testimony; that we used private contractors, who have immunity from prosecution in Iraq and don't have to worry about being court martialed or facing consequences for their actions; that the administration approved of keeping certain prisoners in secret, without the knowledge of the Red Cross; there weren't any systemic problems.

It all must have been because of Clinton's penis.


Oh, and one more thing. Personally, 94 incidents of abuse in itself constitutes a "systemic problem" IMHO.

[antigone382]

5. How ridiculous.

Nevermind that procedures put in place by high-ranking administration officials, such as Donald Rumsfeld, created an atmosphere extremely conducive to abuse and torture; that military interrogators encouraged brutality and gross public humiliation to coerce prisoner testimony; that we used private contractors, who have immunity from prosecution in Iraq and don't have to worry about being court martialed or facing consequences for their actions; that the administration approved of keeping certain prisoners in secret, without the knowledge of the Red Cross; there weren't any systemic problems.

It all must have been because of Clinton's penis.


Oh, and one more thing. Personally, 94 incidents of abuse in itself constitutes a "systemic problem" IMHO.

[birdbrain]

6. If they fess up to 94 cases,

the real number must be at least 20 times that figure.

[Robbien]

7. That is only from Iraq and Afghanistan

They are not reporting the Cuba base or any of the dozen or so "secret" prisons.

No wonder DynCorp Etal make so much money from the US Government.

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=702525