Thursday, April 29, 2004

Winning Hearts and Minds - Part MCXXIV

This is sure to make us even more popular than we already are in Iraq:

A US general has been suspended in Iraq over the alleged abuse of prisoners by US troops in jails she ran.

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CBS says the pictures it obtained show a wide range of abuses, including:


Prisoners with wires attached to their genitals

A dog attacking a prisoner

Prisoners being forced to simulate having sex with each other

A detainee with an abusive word written on his body.
The prison where the abuses are alleged to have taken place was a notorious torture centre during the Saddam Hussein era.
This also happens to be yet another bit of evidence that activities post-war were completely unplanned for:

"We had no training whatsoever," he [former guard] said.

"I kept asking my chain of command for certain things... like rules and regulations. And it just wasn't happening," he said.

He said he never saw a copy of the Geneva Conventions - which govern the treatment of prisoners - until after he was charged.

The Army investigation confirmed that reservists at Abu Ghraib had not been trained in Geneva Convention rules.

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