STEPHEN C. WEBSTER
of The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released passages that were hitherto secret a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo.
These pages on which they had never been given information, detailing the repeated use of abusive conduct that led to the deaths of prisoners.
Documents obtained by the ACLU through a request based on the Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was involved in the creation of a comprehensive study of the operations of the Department of Defense interrogation.
Church defines the interrogation took place in the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as "clearly illegal, and clearly not in keeping with any policy or education approved for the interrogation."
The publication of the ACLU has appeared on the same day it was made also known as a significant group of documents - with the FOIA - by the three major human rights groups, documents reveal that the Pentagon has directed the secret prisons in Bagram and Iraq, which has cooperated with the program of "ghost detentions CIA "and that the staff of the defense has delayed the release of a prisoner to avoid bad publicity.
In the latter two cases, for example, the prisoners were handcuffed to set objects on top of their heads to keep them awake, "says the document in question was also used physical violence, with kicks, blows and use of" rounds of submission "that go to the legs of the prisoners, given with the knees of those questions.
traumatic injuries to the legs had to do with the deaths.
In one case, a pulmonary embolus was formed as a result of traumatic injury to a violent event in the atrium and the coronary disease was complicated by traumatic injury.
In a press release summarizing the ACLU documents with details: "An investigation into two deaths at Bagram has determined that the two detainees died from pulmonary embolism caused by standing in chains, deprived of sleep and beaten dozens times by the guards and maybe even by those who led interrogations. "
also reveals the use of torture in Guantanamo illegal bases and prisons the United States in Afghanistan and Kabul.
"An investigation of a murder and involuntary murder of Dilar Dabab held by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2003 - This is an investigation began after allegations of an Iraqi prisoner subjected to torture and abuse in The Disco (located in the complex of the Special Operations Forces, in the airport in Mosul, Iraq) -
abuse was to freeze his suit and let stand for long periods in front of an air conditioner and make him Drinking water until vomiting or drowning, beating his head against a steel plate hot hooded and then question him, forcing many times to lift her legs which were tied bags of ice and kicking when it anymore. "RZE username
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"An investigation established probable cause to believe that U.S. forces have committed a murder at the close of 2003 when they participated in a sleeping bag held Abed Mowhoush during an interrogation, causing his death by asphyxiation .
"A large part of the torture, mutilation and murder of prisoners took place for the orders given by the rules of the secret Pentagon, wrote Scott Horton, assistant editor of Harper's magazine.
"Most of it has passed through the deputy secretary of defense for intelligence, intelligence, Stephen Cambone, a character who had escaped attention so far in the scandal of torture and that is now the vice president for Strategy QinetiQ North America, a subsidiary of defense contractor based in the UK, QinetiQ.
Even the analysis of the Senate Armed Services Committee fails to reach the bottom of the work of Dr. Cambone and his "rules comparison "(ROE) for the unit of special operations, which controlled, death, disgrace and torture prisoners in upon themselves.
This is one of many reasons why an investigation is urgently needed with comprehensive order of appearance, but the spread of complete internal investigations already conducted by the Department of Defense is the next essential step (from Rebelión / Translated by Granma International)
Link: www.granma.cu/italiano/2009/febrero/mar24/torturan.html
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