jarhead said:
Two of the four that were arrested have been released by American officials. They found they had no connection to the Berg killing. Anyone think it's still a good idea to mistreat people who have not been found guilty in a court of law, and merely arrested?
Other than The Army Times calling for Rumsfeld's resignation this week, the most shocking news came from a Red Cross report released in February that said 70 to 90% of detainees in Iraq were innocent of any wrong doing.
If that's the case in Abu Ghraib, then we're definately not making the US any safer from terrorism but we're actually
recruiting the terrorist ourselves.
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Red Cross Report Describes Systemic Abuse in Iraq
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 10, 2004; 4:12 PM
U.S. forces in Iraq often arrested Iraqis without good reason, routinely used excessive force in the early hours of captivity and abused some prisoners for months to extract information from them, the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Bush administration earlier this year.
The treatment of prisoners who were considered valuable intelligence sources or were suspected in attacks against U.S. forces was sometimes "tantamount to torture," the Geneva-based organization wrote in a February report made public today.
Military intelligence officers told Red Cross monitors that 70 to 90 percent of captives in Iraq last year had been arrested by mistake, the report stated. Some Iraqi families roamed the country for weeks trying to uncover the fate of their imprisoned relatives, who had disappeared into the military detention apparatus.
The Red Cross, which sent investigators to 14 detention centers run by the U.S.-led coalition, also documented eight cases in which Iraqi inmates were shot by American guards between April and November 2003. Seven prisoners died and 18 were injured.