Abuses left detainees mentally ill, study finds

[Swede]

One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks three times and being sodomised with a stick. His thumbs bore round scars consistent with shocking, according to the report obtained by the Associated Press.

Seven of the former prisoners were held in Abu Ghraib between late 2003 and mid-2004. Four were held at Guantanamo Bay from 2002. All were released without criminal charges.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/abuses-left-detainees-mentally-ill-study-finds-20080618-2suw.html

[libnnc]

1. I will NOT let this sink

Crimes that were done in our names

[libnnc]

2. done in our names

[KT2000]

7. Done in our names

torturing people into mental illness.
there are no works - except impeach.

[Zodiak]

3. Yeah, we did it

We did it because torture is the only way that we know how to scare a population that refuses to be cowed. We learned that it worked in Chile, so is is logical that we use it now. Since we never punished those that engaged n this stuff in the 70's, the same bastards feel they can get away with it now.

And to be honest, I believe they are right. Americans have no stomach for the truth, and we have even less stomach for accountability.

[burythehatchet]

4. I watched Ghosts of Abu Ghraib last night

and besides the obvious commission of war crimes, the torturers who might have been sane prior to this certainly are no longer. The misery they will accumulate over the remainder of their miserable lives will not equal the crimes they committed, but it helps.

[kestrel91316]

5. Well, duh. That was the entire point. It was INTENTIONAL.

Can we say, "war crimes", kiddies?

[libnnc]

9. WAR CRIMES in OUR NAMES

T O R T U R E





Gen. Taguba: Bush Administration Committed War Crimes

The Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. Retired Major General Antonio Taguba made the comment in a new report about US torture practices. Taguba wrote, “The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture.” Taguba went on to say, “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.” <snip>

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/19/headlines#1





Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Great Torture Scandal

McClatchy and other reporters are abruptly pulling the curtain away from the Bush team's illegal practices in arresting people arbitrarily, declining to offer proof that they were guilty of anything, detaining them indefinitely without trial or charges, and deliberately torturing them to the extent of leaving long-term scars and disabilities. The torture practices originated not with lower-level officers but with Donald Rumsfeld and others in Bush's inner circle, who then later blamed lower-level officials for developing the ideas that Rumsfeld ordered them to develop. Nothing they have done has survived a court challenge where one has been permitted.<snip>

http://www.juancole.com/2008/06/great-torture-scandal.html





A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from field commanders to suggest that the proposals originated far down the chain of command, according to congressional sources briefed on the findings.<snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602779.html

[malaise]

6. K & R

for shame

[libnnc]

8. kick

Not gonna let this get lost.

[Lerkfish]

10. hey, I'll kick it too

[Swede]

11. Thanks libnnc

:hi: