Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=1&u=/nm/iraq_reuters_dc

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said Tuesday.

The three first told Reuters of the ordeal after their release but only decided to make it public when the U.S. military said there was no evidence they had been abused, and following the exposure of similar mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

An Iraqi journalist working for U.S. network NBC, who was arrested with the Reuters staff, also said he had been beaten and mistreated, NBC said Tuesday.

Two of the three Reuters staff said they had been forced to insert a finger into their anus and then lick it, and were forced to put shoes in their mouths, particularly humiliating in Arab culture.

All three said they were forced to make demeaning gestures as soldiers laughed, taunted them and took photographs. They said they did not want to give details publicly earlier because of the degrading nature of the abuse.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers said after a private meeting with General Antonio Taguba that they were assured that the prison abuse scandal in Iraq was limited to the facility at Abu Ghraib.

The duling news stories. I wonder of ABC wants to whore for Bush in the future?

Stay the course.

The idiots that forced them to do this should be left thinking they will have to do the same, and then wonder if they've gotten hepatitis.

There was another thread today which described a soldier "sodomizing a prisoner with his finger". Don't ask me where. I'm not organized enough to keep up with all the outrages anymore. Do they have some sort of kinky club or something? <sigh>

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From the posted article:

"The U.S. military never interviewed the three for its investigation."

On February 3 Schlesinger wrote to Lawrence Di Rita, special assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying the investigation was "woefully inadequate" and should be reopened.

"The military's conclusion of its investigation without even interviewing the alleged victims, along with other inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the report, speaks volumes about the seriousness with which the U.S. government is taking this issue," he wrote.
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OK

"The U.S. military never interviewed the three for its investigation."

anyone surprised? :shrug:

not me

not anymore

nothing evil about this invasion will surprise me anymore.

(sigh)

spent coming up with these perverted methods of "interrogation." we might as well be subsidizing satanism.

:puke:

We've got a bunch of SICK sexual retards over there.

They were either sick when they joined or something is mkaing them sick.

Bring them home now.

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