Cable Forum - MERGED - Prisoner Abuse

Well, not only did US forces in Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo Bay carry out abuse of prisoners, seems the same things happened in Bagram airbase in Afghanistan...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanista...417396,00.html

Quote:

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and James Meek
Friday February 18, 2005
The Guardian

New evidence has emerged that US forces in Afghanistan engaged in widespread Abu Ghraib-style abuse, taking "trophy photographs" of detainees and carrying out rape and sexual humiliation.

Documents obtained by the Guardian contain evidence that such abuses took place in the main detention centre at Bagram, near the capital Kabul, as well as at a smaller US installation near the southern city of Kandahar.

The documents also indicate that US soldiers covered up abuse in Afghanistan and in Iraq - even after the Abu Ghraib scandal last year.

A thousand pages of evidence from US army investigations released to the American Civil Liberties Union after a long legal battle, and made available to the Guardian, show that an Iraqi detained at Tikrit in September 2003 was forced to withdraw his report of abuse after soldiers told him he would be held indefinitely.

Meanwhile, photographs taken in southern Afghanistan showing US soldiers from the 22nd Infantry Battalion posing in mock executions of blindfolded and bound detainees, were purposely destroyed after the Abu Ghraib scandal to avoid "another public outrage", the documents show.

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And I bet The Powers That Be still claim it was all due to "a few bad apples", rather than being due to orders from on high.