By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s Governing Council long suspected abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison but American soldiers covered them up each time Iraqi officials went to investigate, the former interior minister said Wednesday.
Nouri Badran, who resigned as interior minister last month, also told Reuters in an interview that the United States must allow Iraqis to participate in any investigation into prisoner abuses if Washington wanted to repair its credibility in Iraq.
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"The abuses have been happening for a long time and the occupation forces knew about them. We heard about them from prisoners who were released. The occupation officials said nothing when we asked them," Badran said.
"When Iraqi security forces arrested a suspect, the occupation forces used to come and take him and we did not know anything about him afterwards. We did not imagine that the abuses reached these levels," he added.
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