Meanwhile the American Civil Liberties Union released more government documents Monday that revealed Iraqi prisoners have lodged as many as 90 complaints of abuse against the U.S. after being held at a little known U.S.-run jail. The prison is housed in a former palace in Baghdad that was once used by Saddam Hussein’s son Uday. Detainees were reportedly sodomized, tortured with electric shocks, beaten and burned with cigarettes. One elderly Iraqi woman reported being sodomized with a stick. The Washington Post reports the latest documents show that few Army personnel have been charged with criminal conduct even when they have admitted to beating or threatening to kill Iraqi detainees. ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said “Some of the investigations have basically whitewashed the torture and abuse. The documents that the ACLU has obtained tell a damning story of widespread torture reaching well beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib.”
New Evidence Of U.S. Torture In Iraq Emerges
HeadlineJan 25, 2005