Iraqis Tortured And Raped By American Army & Cia

[aliasghark]

To mark the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib abuses and killings by the American government's military and intelligence agencies: 

 

 

Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

 

From late 2003 to early 2004, during the War in Iraq, military police personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed human rights violations against prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison. They physically and sexually abused, tortured, raped, sodomized, and killed prisoners. 

 

United States Army photo from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq showing Pvt. Lynndie England holding a leash attached to a prisoner collapsed on the floor, known to the guards as "Gus." 

 

Satar Jabar attached to electrical shocking devices, at Abu Ghraib Prison

 

US Army SSG Ivan Frederick sitting on an Iraqi prisoner.

 

Charles Graner poses over the body of a murdered Iraqi prisoner. 

 

These are the more mild pictures. Other pictures are so obscene and horrific that I can't paste them here. See them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse and http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib/

[repenter-gone4awhile]

This is just tip of the iceberg. This stuff was leaked, just imagine the stuff you don't see. 

[baradar_jackson]

This is just tip of the iceberg. This stuff was leaked, just imagine the stuff you don't see. 

 

Bingo.

 

I kind of dislike how Abu Ghraib became such a scandal.

 

It was a lot like the My Lai Massacre. People going up in arms about the massacre of a small hamlet in Vietnam, when everyone already knew that the country was being blanketed with napalm for years and years and years.

 

Abu Ghraib is terrible, of course. So was My Lai. But what about the use of depleted uranium, and all those kids who are born with defects because of it?

 

The focus on such a specific incident takes away from the fact that the very PRESENCE of aggressive military forces in Iraq or in any other country, is a crime against human decency. The US Army's crime was not Abu Ghraib; Abu Ghraib was simply a side effect of their true crime which was the military invasion of Iraq.

[aliasghark]

Agreed that we shouldn't only remember one massacre from the American invasion of Iraq, the others need to be highlighted too.

 

I received a change.org mail recently about the depleted uranium-related deformations in newborn babies, Inshallah I'll post it soon (or you can too if you have any articles on this or other crimes). 

[Shiabro]

And imagine what Saddam had done before with Iraqis. No pictures of his brutality in the media, occasionally some. No one complained about him, everyone was silent then.

[repenter-gone4awhile]

And imagine what Saddam had done before with Iraqis. No pictures of his brutality in the media, occasionally some. No one complained about him, everyone was silent then.

 

ummm, in his time it did. But it doesn't matter, Saddam, CIA, NSA, all part of the same group. They just changed one executioner for another. 

[maryam.akhond]

this is nothing compared whats going to come

[aliasghark]

Camp Nama: New Details of the US-Run Torture Prison in Iraq

 

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/01/camp-nama-new-details-of-the-us-run-torture-prison-in-iraq/

[aliasghark]

Wikileaks: Iraq War Logs show US ignored torture allegations

The US military gave a secret order not to investigate torture by Iraqi authorities, Pentagon logs on the Iraq War leaked by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks have disclosed.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8082223/Wikileaks-Iraq-War-Logs-show-US-ignored-torture-allegations.html 

[aliasghark]

America's Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams Are Still Operating in Iraq

A 15-month investigation exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon lays out the tragic truth.

 

Death squads, torture, secret prisons in Iraq, and General David Petraeus are among the featured atrocities in a recently-released new British documentary – James Steele: America’s Mystery Man in Iraq – the result of a 15-month investigation by Guardian Films and BBC Arabic, exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon but confirmed by thousands of military field reports made public by Wikileaks. 

 

The hour-long film explores the arc of American counterinsurgency brutality from Viet-Nam to Iraq, with stops along the way in El Salvador and Nicaragua.  James Steele is now a retired U.S. colonel who first served in Viet-Nam as a company commander in 1968-69.  He later made his reputation as a military advisor in El Salvador, where he guided ruthless Salvadoran death squads in the 1980s. 

 

When his country called again in 2003, he came out of retirement to train Iraqi police commandos in the bloodiest techniques of counterinsurgency that evolved into that country’s Shia-Sunni civil war that at its peak killed 3,000 people a month. Steele now lives in a gated golf community in Brian, Texas, and did not respond to requests for an interview for the documentary bearing his name. 

 

http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-hired-death-squads-and-torture-teams-are-still-operating-iraq

Death squads, torture, secret prisons in Iraq, and General David Petraeus are among the featured atrocities in a recently-released new British documentary – James Steele: America’s Mystery Man in Iraq – the result of a 15-month investigation by Guardian Films and BBC Arabic, exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon but confirmed by thousands of military field reports made public by Wikileaks. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ca1HsC6MH0 

[aliasghark]

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?/topic/235012420-us-created-iraqi-death-squads-2004-bbcguardian/