Oh, what’s that word?
Discovery of abused Iraqi prisoners sparks outrage
Sources say Iraqi PM and US forces had been told about ‘torture cells’ months ago.
| By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com |
The Iraqi government has ordered an investigation into the alleged abuse and torture of 173 prisoners, most of them Sunni Arabs, in an Interior Ministry cell in Baghdad. The Guardian reports that the men were discovered during a raid by a US patrol as it was looking for a missing teenage boy. The US troops were stunned by what they found – many of the prisoners appeared to have been brutally beaten and most had been malnourished for weeks. There are also rumors of several dead bodies in the cell that showed signs of severe torture.
Earlier a deputy interior minister put the number of prisoners at 161 and said he was stunned by their treatment. “They were being treated in an inappropriate way … they were being abused,” Hussein Kamal told Reuters.
“I’ve never seen such a situation like this during the past two years in Baghdad. This is the worst,” he told CNN. “I saw signs of physical abuse by brutal beating, one or two detainees were paralysed and some had their skin peeled off.”</i>
Then, you read this:
The Associated Press reports, however, that the US raid may not have been accidental, and may have been aimed at “scoring points” with Sunni Arabs, whose participation in next month’s general election is necessary if the US wants to be able to exit Iraq sometime in the next two years.
Sunni Arab politicians have complained for months about arbitrary arrests, torture and assassinations of Sunnis, allegedly at the hands of special commandoes of the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry, who are at the forefront of the battle against the largely Sunni insurgents … One Sunni politician, Mohsen Abdul-Hamid, said he had personally told Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari about conditions at detention centers, including the one seized by American forces Sunday night. Other Sunni leaders who meet regularly with American officials have been outspoken in complaints about Interior Ministry forces.</i>
Ok, what’s the word when someone knows of a crime but doesn’t report it, or in the case of our military, end it?
Abetting. Ah yes, that’s it. As in “just as bad”.
This is a huge story, one that our MSM won’t deal with at all.
