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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Two more stories to add to the list. And remember, this is all the fault of the liberal media. Is this who we are? [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/19/AbuGhraib[/IMG] Via [URL=http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006568.html#006568]TalkLeft[/URL]. [QUOTE] [b]Brutal interrogation in Iraq[/b] Five detainees' deaths probed Brutal interrogation techniques by U.S. military personnel are being investigated in connection with the deaths of at least five Iraqi prisoners in war-zone detention camps, Pentagon documents obtained by The Denver Post show. The deaths include the killing in November of a high-level Iraqi general who was shoved into a sleeping bag and suffocated, according to the Pentagon report. The documents contradict an earlier Defense Department statement that said the general died "of natural causes" during an interrogation. Pentagon officials declined to comment on the new disclosure. Another Iraqi military officer, records show, was asphyxiated after being gagged, his hands tied to the top of his cell door. Another detainee died "while undergoing stress technique interrogation," involving smothering and "chest compressions," according to the documents. Details of the death investigations, involving at least four different detention facilities including the Abu Ghraib prison, provide the clearest view yet into war-zone interrogation rooms, where intelligence soldiers and other personnel have sometimes used lethal tactics to try to coax secrets from prisoners, including choking off detainees' airways. Other abusive strategies involve sitting on prisoners or bending them into uncomfortable positions, records show. "Torture is the only thing you can call this," said a Pentagon source with knowledge of internal investigations into prisoner abuses. "There is a lot about our country's interrogation techniques that is very troubling. These are violations of military law." Miles Moffeit, [URL=http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11676~2157003,00.html]The Denver Post[/URL] [/QUOTE]And this... [QUOTE] [b]GI: Boy mistreated to get dad to talk[/b] A military intelligence analyst who recently completed duty at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (news - web sites) said Wednesday that the 16-year-old son of a detainee there was abused by U.S. soldiers to break his father's resistance to interrogators. The analyst said the teenager was stripped naked, thrown in the back of an open truck, driven around in the cold night air, splattered with mud and then presented to his father at Abu Ghraib, the prison at the center of the scandal over abuse of Iraqi detainees. Upon seeing his frail and frightened son, the prisoner broke down and cried and told interrogators he would tell them whatever they wanted, the analyst said. Mike Dorning, [URL=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=5&u=/chitribts/giboymistreatedtogetdadtotalk]Chicago Tribune[/URL] Via Atrios at [URL=http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_05_16_atrios_archive.html#108506375521683482]Eschaton[/URL][/QUOTE]We're abusing 16-year-olds to get the father to talk?? We're not only torturing people we're interrogating, but we're killing people with torture that we're interrogating. I'm not being flippant about this question, but what level do we have to get to till we say this is too much...till we say this is not what America is about? What level to we get to till we realize that we've become too similar to what we're fighting against? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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