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Report details Iraqi prisoner abuse
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-05-22 08:37 Some prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were
ridden like animals, fondled by female soldiers, forced to curse their religion
and required to retrieve their food from toilets, according to a published
report Friday.
A US soldier in a
flak jacket appears to be using both hands to restrain a dog facing an
Iraqi detainee in the Abu Ghraib prison. The photo is one of the hundreds
of unreleased pictures and videos that display techniques not seen in
earlier images of prison abuse. [AFP] | The
Washington Post, in its Friday editions, also published new photographs and
shots from a video of the alleged abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraq prisoners
by U.S. soldiers. The newspaper said the material, including secret sworn
statements from prisoners, came from evidence being assembled from
investigations into possible criminal charges against U.S. soldiers.
The photographs depict a U.S. soldier apparently preparing to strike a
shackled detainee, a hooded inmate collapsed with his wrists handcuffed to the
railing and a baton-wielding soldier appearing to order a naked detainee covered
in a brown substance to walk a straight line, though his ankles are shackled.
Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick is the soldier in the photo of a naked
man covered with a brown substance standing with his arms outstretched and his
ankles shackled, Frederick's uncle, William W. Lawson, said. Frederick is also
shown in a video clip on the Post Web site, watching while another soldier
apparently hits a detainee in the face and then forces a second detainee to take
a position on all fours.
Frederick's civilian lawyer, Gary Myers, said he hadn't seen the pictures but
the fact that Frederick appears in some images from Abu Ghraib "is not
necessarily news to us." Myers declined to comment on Frederick's role in the
alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
The Post said it obtained hundreds more pictures and several digital videos
of the abuse. In one photo, a cornered inmate is cowering as a soldier tries to
restrain a large black dog with both hands. In another, a soldier appears to be
kneeling on naked detainees.
In secret testimony to military investigators in mid-January, detainees said
they were beaten and humiliated by American soldiers working the night shift at
Tier 1A in Abu Ghraib during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to the
Post.
The Post also said detainees told investigators they were forced to denounce
Islam or force-fed pork or liquor, required to masturbate in front of female
soldiers, threatened with rape, and made to walk on all their hands and knees
and bark like dogs.
"They said we will make you wish to die and it will not happen," the
newspaper quoted one detainee, identified as Ameen Saeed Al-Sheik, as
saying.
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