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Wow.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3674355.stm

“The naked prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his genitals was t
old that if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted, CBS said”

. . .

“The political debate in America has turned now to the issue of the numbers of
US soldiers dying in Iraq.

ABC’s Nightline, an influential evening current affairs television programme, i
s to hold a reading tonight of all the names of the American dead.”

. . .

“Adnan Al-Pachachi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, said it would crea
te a great deal of anger and discontent among Iraqis already concerned about se
curity in the country.

But he rejected a comparison with the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib pris
on near Baghdad during the days of Saddam Hussein.

‘I don’t think you can compare the two. Saddam Hussein’s prisoners were not onl
y tortured but executed. It was much worse than what is there now.’

One of the suspended soldiers, Staff Sergeant Chip Frederick, said the way the
army ran the prison had led to the abuse.

‘We had no support, no training whatsoever. And I kept asking my chain of comma
nd for certain things… like rules and regulations,” he told CBS. “It just was
n’t happening.’”

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