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Originally Posted by JZ
LawnCheney,
If you really want to get an idea of the abuse in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Check out this PBS site the video is appalling!
"Abu Ghraib - And Beyond"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/view/
Some of the things that happened was prisoners were jump on as they laid on the floor. One was made to lay on the floor while soldiers spit and urinated on him. More common tactics was nudity, beating and dogs let loose in the room. One detainee was sodomize with a police baton and female soldiers threw balls at his genitals. Bones were broken and they would smash peoples feet with the back end of an axe. The tortures of Iraqi would happened in the homes of Iraqis. The tortures happened all over Iraq with the knowledge of the upper military staff without much concern.
Some soldiers tell first hand of the abuse.
Good God, that one interrogator said, the worst things happen when the cameras weren't rolling!
I watched video 5. “Taking the Gloves Off “
They were just pulling civilians out of their homes and throwing them into detainee camps to meet quotas. "Army interrogators said, whether in the prison or out in the county side they were often brutal. When the Units would go out into peoples homes and do these raids they would just torture them there.”
5. Taking the Glove Off (video)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/view/
2003
Quotes:
Sgt. Roger Brokaw, Interrogator, Army Reserve, Ret. said:
“They were just picking up people for anything, just at the drop of a hat, there were quotas. Quotas on interrogating so many people per week and send reports to the upper chain of command. The soldiers would just go into peoples homes and torture Iraqis in there homes.
98% of the people had no reason being detained they would just to into people houses and pull them out and throw them in detention camps.”
SPC Anthony Lagouranis Interrogator, U.S. Army, 2001 - 05 said:
“We rarely got good intelligence from prisoners, I blame that on we were getting prisoners that were innocent and they didn’t have any intelligence to give us.”