CIA Document Details Torture, Murder: Setting People On Fire; Breaking Bones; Beating; Strangulation; Electrocution
| By Sean Shealy - Dec 16th, 2007 at 8:10 pm EST |
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Categories: Peace & Social Justice, Foreign Policy & Security, Effective & Ethical Government
Categories: Peace & Social Justice, Foreign Policy & Security, Effective & Ethical Government
According to CIA documents obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act:
Dec 3, 2002 -- at Baghram, interrogators kill an Afghan prisoner "by shackling him by his wrists to the wire ceiling above his cell and repeatedly beating his legs. A postmortem report finds abrasions and contusions on the prisoner's face, head, neck, arms and legs and determines that the death was a "homicide" caused by "blunt force injuries."
Oct 22 2003 -- Final autopsy report relating to death of "52 y/o Iraqi Male, Civilian Detainee" held by U.S. forces in Nasiriyah, Iraq. Prisoner was found to have "died as a result of asphyxia … due to
strangulation."
June 16, 2004 -- Marine Corps document describing abuse cases between September 2001 and June 2004,
including "substantiated" incidents in which Marines electrocuted a prisoner and set another's hands on fire.
(Undated): Sworn statement of screener at Abu Ghraib indicates that prisoners at Asamiya Palace in Baghdad had been beaten, burned and subjected to electric shocks.
Subsequent internal documents record prisoners being stripped, made to walk into walls blindfolded, punched, kicked, dragged about the room, observed to have bruises and burn marks on their backs, and having their jaws deliberately broken.
The transcript of this internal document reveals Lt. Gen. Schmidt's own words that it was his understanding that the directives to commit these acts, many of which are apparent war crimes, came right from the top.
"I thought the Secretary of Defense in good faith was approving techniques," testified Lt. Gen. Schmidt.
More: www.commondreams.org
By the way: Anyone seen the freaking media or the United States Congress lately? If you do, would you mention to them politely that this country is being dragged through the fetid sewers of history while they do NOTHING?
Dec 3, 2002 -- at Baghram, interrogators kill an Afghan prisoner "by shackling him by his wrists to the wire ceiling above his cell and repeatedly beating his legs. A postmortem report finds abrasions and contusions on the prisoner's face, head, neck, arms and legs and determines that the death was a "homicide" caused by "blunt force injuries."
Oct 22 2003 -- Final autopsy report relating to death of "52 y/o Iraqi Male, Civilian Detainee" held by U.S. forces in Nasiriyah, Iraq. Prisoner was found to have "died as a result of asphyxia … due to
strangulation."
June 16, 2004 -- Marine Corps document describing abuse cases between September 2001 and June 2004,
including "substantiated" incidents in which Marines electrocuted a prisoner and set another's hands on fire.
(Undated): Sworn statement of screener at Abu Ghraib indicates that prisoners at Asamiya Palace in Baghdad had been beaten, burned and subjected to electric shocks.
Subsequent internal documents record prisoners being stripped, made to walk into walls blindfolded, punched, kicked, dragged about the room, observed to have bruises and burn marks on their backs, and having their jaws deliberately broken.
The transcript of this internal document reveals Lt. Gen. Schmidt's own words that it was his understanding that the directives to commit these acts, many of which are apparent war crimes, came right from the top.
"I thought the Secretary of Defense in good faith was approving techniques," testified Lt. Gen. Schmidt.
More: www.commondreams.org
By the way: Anyone seen the freaking media or the United States Congress lately? If you do, would you mention to them politely that this country is being dragged through the fetid sewers of history while they do NOTHING?
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