The CIA interrogated and beat Iraqi prisoners in a room where a handcuffed and hooded prisoner was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died last year at the Abu Ghraib prison, a US Navy Seal has testified.

Blood was visible on the hood worn by the prisoner, Manadal al-Jamadi, as he was led into the interrogation room at Baghdad International Airport in November 2003, the navy commando said at a military pre-trial hearing on Monday for another Seal accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners. Testifying under a grant of immunity, the witness, identified only by his rank as a hospital corpsman, said he kicked al-Jamadi several times, slapped him in the back of the head and punched him. Five or six other CIA personnel in the "romper room" laid their hands on the prisoner, he said, but did not provide details.

Sometime later, al-Jamadi was found dead in a shower room at Abu Ghraib less than an hour after two CIA personnel brought him into Abu Ghraib as a "ghost detainee", according to army Major-General George Fay's report on the notorious prison.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A9F456C8-5014-4291-8ABC-77E7763CC456.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

Berlin (dpa) - In US-Gefängnissen im Irak wird nach Angaben irakischer Ärzte weiter gefoltert. Der Chefarzt eines psychiatrischen Krankenhauses in Bagdad, Hashim Al-Zainy, sagte am Freitag in Berlin, zwar dürfe sein Personal nicht in die amerikanischen Gefängnisse, viele Entlassene kämen aber traumatisiert in seine Klinik. Die Ärztin Maysem M. Abdul-Wahab sagte: «Es ist in unserer Kultur eine große Schmach, als Mann von einer Frau gedemütigt zu werden.» Es dauere Jahre, bis die Opfer wieder Vertrauen fassten. Ohne internationale Hilfe könnten die Folteropfer kaum versorgt werden. «Die Menschen, die wir behandeln, haben keine Familie, keinen Besitz und keine Ziele mehr für die Zukunft.» Die beiden Ärzte nehmen an diesem Samstag an der Tagung «Folter und Humanität» des Vereins Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges (IPPNW) in Berlin teil. Die internationale humanitäre Organisation setzt sich weltweit für eine präventive Medizin ein. In Not- und Kriegssituationen hilft sie mit medizinischem Personal, Leiden zu mindern. Auf der Tagung werden neben den irakischen Ärzten auch deutsche Psychiater und Wissenschaftler referieren.

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VCS Weekly Update: Torture Lawsuit; Iraq War Vets and Trauma

The government responded to a joint ACLU / Veterans for Common

Sense lawsuit this week by releasing 6,000 pages of documents related to prisoner abuse at abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. The documents were released after a year-long Freedom of Information Request was blocked and denied by government agencies, until the courts ordered them to produce the documents.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2333

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1336759,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The scandal of Iraqi "ghost detainees", prisoners not officially recorded by the United States, has links to top levels at the White House.

http://207.44.245.159/article7149.htm

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Amnesty condemns US 'torture tactics':

Amnesty International has accused the United States of being more concerned with getting around international laws which prohibit torture than with safeguarding human rights as it wages its "war on terror".

http://207.44.245.159/article7157.htm

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Iraq transfers war crimes :

An international law expert from Harvard Law School says the U.S. government is guilty of war crimes for moving prisoners from Iraq to other countries.

http://207.44.245.159/article7159.htm

Amnesty International stellt neuen Bericht über schwere Misshandlungen im US-Gewahrsam vor und fordert Bush oder Kerry zu einschneidenden Konsequenzen auf...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18664/1.html