Torture was a signature feature of the state terror inflicted That Saddam Hussein is Iraq. The Iraq war voluminous documents released by WikiLeaks Today Show That getting rid of Saddam Did not eradicate the brutal Tendencies of the Iraqi security forces Revamped. Detainees were roughed up with pipes, knives, cables, Electricity - Even a cat in the face. Some suspects were so scared, They confessed Thurs Being Terrorists, just so They Could Be shipped to the Americans.
Wikileaks proved at Least One Thing through the ITS release of Nearly 400.000 U.S. military reports from the Iraq war: the brutalization of detainees Continued Years After the Abu Ghraib scandal, perpetrated largely by Iraqi Police and Soldiers Whom the U.S. Trained. In at Least one case, Iraqi Police, evangelical brawled with private security guards. While early press coverage of the documents WikiLeaked has zeroed in on the abuse, it's Barely scratched the surface.
Searching the Wikileaks Iraq trove of Reported Incidents for detainee abuse results in literally Thousands of accounts of Brutality. Some Of Them involv U.S. Troops allegedly inflicting harm upon detainees in Their custody. A detainee Held by coalition forces in southern Iraq said in a February 2006 That the U.S. Task Force beat him to the point Where they lost one of his eyes. "Capture photo depicts a bandage over his right eye, and injury to His right forearm," a report reads.
Some of the more unseemly and Gruesome accounts of abuse are the result of Iraqi security forces. In Anbar Province in 2005 - then the heart of the Sunni insurgency - Iraqi Police, threw a cat on a detainee's face, threatened him with knives and beat him with cables, Iraqi National Guardsmen and U.S. evangelical Troops May Have Been Involved. Baghdad cops May Also have deprived detainees of Medical Treatment: one account describes detainees as "Walking Wounded," showing visible "open sores", it notes That "some" detainees have Died of Disease in Recent Weeks. "
Detainees in Mosul in 2005 - just months after insurgents overran the U.S. Briefly and Iraqi forces Thurs control the city in November 2004 - Told U.S. Troops That They confessed Thurs Being Terrorists ie, They Could Be Transferred to U.S. custody, a Way to Escape the beatings They Received from Iraqi soldiers. That Same year, a detainee questioned by Iraqi soldiers never come out, Leading the soldiers to Report That they was the drugs. They Thurs Sent him an Iraqi police station, Where they never woke up. His death was Classified as a drug overdose, a U.S. His report says the body appeared Not to have exhibited signs of abuse.
Cables show up in the documents as an Implement of choice for the Iraqi security forces Thurs discipline detainees. One Iraqi unit used "cables and water pipes for" south of Baghdad Thurs beat a detainee has the legs and buttocks. In Fallujah, Another detainee Reported That an Iraqi police captain beat him with a cable, leaving "a dime-size" welts is his thigh. In Mosul, Iraqi police whacked Three detainees with cables on the "back, chest and face" and "hung [inline] by the wrist" Until They confessed Thurs Terrorist Acts.
Other Iraqi police techniques are evangelical blunter. One detainee said the Baghdad Police, burned him with cigarettes, Shocked With Electricity him and beat him with a "Stick to extract info."
In one bizarre case, the Iraqi police in the southern port city of Umm Qasr Came under apparently unprovoked attack from contractors from the now-disbanded Crescent Security Group in 2005. A Crescent employee "shots fired" at an Iraqi police patrol. When coalition forces Came Thurs investigate, the Crescent Guard - his Nationality Is not Identified - Had a "minor cut to the nose and a bloodied mouth." Iraqi cops Claim the guard suffered the bruising DURING arrest, Not in the lock-up.
There are accounts of U.S. Troops Trying To Stop the abuse. U.S. troops investigated an account of Iraqi national guardsmen Beating a detainee in Mosul in 2005, it's not clear what became of the incident. (The Iraqi National Guard was Essentially Dissolved and folded into the Iraqi Army in 2005.) Members of a U.S. Brigade in Basra had occurred on the boat on Thurs seeing Iraqi cops drag an Iraqi out of his car Thurs beat him up in the street.
A Statement That Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon's Chief Spokesman, Thurs emailed reporters ahead of the release Called the Wikileaks documents "Essentially snapshots of events, Both Tragic and mundane, and do Not Tell the Whole Story."
The Wikileaks site set up to Allow readers to search through the documents is overloaded as of this writing. But a search EARLIER this afternoon just for abuse accounts from 2009 - the Most recent year the documents cover - Turned up over 1990, largely vague accounts. There are 50.000 U.S. troops still in Iraq with the primary residual Mission to Increase the Iraqi security forces' competence, professionalism and obedience to the rule of law. The documents Wikileaks Revealed underscores just how massive Their challenge is.
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