AP: Exams prove abuse, torture in Iraq, Gitmo

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainees_rights_report

Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.

For the most extensive medical study of former U.S. detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental health professionals examine 11 former prisoners. The group alleges finding evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes and accuses U.S. military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and providing confidential medical information to interrogators that they then exploited.

"Some of these men really are, several years later, very severely scarred," said Barry Rosenfeld, a psychology professor at Fordham University who conducted psychological tests on six of the 11 detainees covered by the study. "It's a testimony to how bad those conditions were and how personal the abuse was."

One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks three times and being sodomized with a stick. His thumbs bore round scars consistent with shocking, according to the report obtained by The Associated Press. He would not allow a full rectal exam.

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[stillcool]

2. Nobody saw it..

I caught a little of the hearing on C-Span, and it seems the entire military apparatus was unaware this stuff was going on. They might have heard rumors, but they had no personal knowledge that anything like this was taking place. The dogs were there to guard the perimeter. And those guidelines are all very subjective.

[Solly Mack]

4. Yep and "somebody else must have...."

[hokies4ever]

3. "Yawn"

is the reaction most Americans now have of Dumbya's incompetent administration. It's a sad situation when people have become so disenchanted with the current government that they just come to expect the worst of them.

[Richard Steele]

5. K&R

[countryjake]

6. kick