A report by the International Committee for the Red Cross from February largely contradicts the Pentagon’s charge that the recently revealed incidents of prison abuse in Iraq were isolated events. The 24-page Red Cross report said military intelligence officers “confirmed that it was part of the military intelligence process… to use inhumane and degrading treatment, including physical and psychological coercion.” This included “beatings with hard objects including pistols and rifles” and prisoners being “paraded naked outside cells… sometimes hooded or with women’s underwear over their heads.”