And the hits just keep on coming.
Previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq describe in raw detail abuse that goes well beyond what has been made public, adding allegations of prisoners being ridden like animals, sexually fondled by female soldiers and forced to retrieve their food from toilets.
Hilas also said he witnessed an Army translator having sex with a boy at the prison. He said the boy was between 15 and 18 years old. Someone hung sheets to block the view, but Hilas said he heard the boy's screams and climbed a door to get a better look. Hilas said he watched the assault and told investigators that it was documented by a female soldier taking pictures.
Good. And if actual sex isn't enough:
Hilas told investigators that he asked Graner for the time one day because he wanted to pray. He said Graner cuffed him to the bars of a cell window and left him there for close to five hours, his feet dangling off the floor. Hilas also said he watched as Graner and others sodomized a detainee with a phosphoric light. "They tied him to the bed," Hilas said.
Other shit in there, like forcing prisoners to eat pork, threatening to rape their wives, the prisoners themselves, severe beatings....yeah we got it all in there. And then there's this:
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.
Wow. There are still worse out there. Bank on it.
Washington Post Article (Don't miss the new pictures)
Posted by mike at May 21, 2004 12:22 AMMost of that stuff is pretty raw... but what's so bad about being sexually fondled by females? The Iraqis better not say we never did nothing for 'em; the Abu Ghraib treatment costs a pretty penny stateside from Mistress Fallon et al.
and we're giving it to them for FREE.
Posted by: Cam on May 21, 2004 02:16 PMI like how these methods are suppose to result in reliable intellegence during interigation. To quote the all knowing Reservoir Dogs:
EDDIE: Why the hell are you beating on
him?
MR. PINK: So he'll tell us who the fuck set
us up.
EDDIE: Would you stop it with that shit! You beat on this prick enough, he'll tell ya he started the Chicago fire. That don't necessarily make it so.