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Originally Posted by NHØP
"On at least one occasion, the 320th MP Battalion at Abu Ghraib held a handful of “ghost detainees” (6-8) for OGAs that they moved around within the facility to hide them from a visiting International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) survey team."
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Hummm, that sounds familiar... Where did i hear something like that? Oh yeah, just change the names from detainees to WMDs, and add UN inspectors in exchange for Red Cross!
Diferent subjects, same tactics.
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The report only adds a sense of "officialty" to something that was already common knowledge.However, the end results will be exactlly the same. Only those down in the chain will get punished. Maybe use some obscure general as an escape goat, a couple of lieutenants and that´s that! The real guilty parties will go on doing what they know best, and we will be none the wiser!
In a few weeks all this turmoil will be forgotten, and it´s back to the old ways again.
Just the other day i was watching a documentary on Iraq, where a few former detainees on some US prision camp were talking about their encarceration. They told that they were stuffed 5 or 6 at a time into some 2 feet high wooden boxes, a few feet long and 2 feet wide. The US troopers called it the "rathouse". You had to crawl inside, and the only position you could stay was in a fetal position. And when they came to get one of the detainees for questioning, they would kick the sides of the box with their boots and yell "Wake up, rat! Wake up!". The detainees were left in the boxes for days, sometimes with the hood on, and their hands tied. The latest figures presented showed there were over 10.000 iraqis currently being detained without cause or legal representation.
Most of the iraqi soldiers who surrendered at the beginning of the war are still there. A couple hundred were released last year, but the others remained incarcerated. Just as any "foreign fighter" that the US Army got their hands on.
Because of such a high number of detainees, there aren´t any infrastrutures to accomodate them all, and so the US Army resorted to using outside barbed wire compounds, exposed to the elements and sleeping on the ground.
Who knows how many have perished due to these extreme conditions?
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