US Military Intelligence Accused of Abuse (4 prisons NOT Abu Ghraib)

Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib, investigative documents show.

Court transcripts and Army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand in hoods in 120-degree heat to punching them, occurred at a Marine detention camp and three Army prison sites in Iraq besides Abu Ghraib…

Other accusations against military intelligence troops include:

_Stuffing an Iraqi general into a sleeping bag, sitting on his chest and covering his mouth during an interrogation at a prison camp at Qaim, near the border with Syria. The general died during that interrogation, although he also had been questioned by CIA (news - web sites) operatives in the days before his death.

_Choking, beating and pulling the hair of detainees at an Army prison camp near Samarra, north of Baghdad.

_Hitting prisoners and putting them in painful positions for hours at Camp Cropper, a prison at Baghdad International Airport for prominent former Iraqi officials…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040529/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_intelligence_abuse_1 MORE}}

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