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WASHINGTON,
May 2 (IslamOnline.net) – The recently aired images showing U.S.
soldiers torturing and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees were but a new
episode of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses"
at Abu Ghraib, according to the New Yorker magazine.
It
recalled that in January Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, the
senior commander in Iraq, ordered a major investigation into reported
abuses inside the prison.
A
53-page report, completed in February by Major General Antonio M.
Taguba and not meant for public release, found numerous instances of
"sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" at Abu
Ghraib.
It
listed as but few of the abuses: "Breaking
chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;
pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom
handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a
military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was
injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a
detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using
military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with
threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee."
The
report cited stunning proof to support the charges including
"detailed witness statements and the discovery of extremely
graphic photographic evidence."
The
photographs - several of which were broadcast on CBS network last week
– were not included in the report because of their "extremely
sensitive nature."
The
report concluded that this systematic and illegal abuse of detainees
was perpetrated by soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, and
also by members of the American intelligence community.
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