Iraqi teenage prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison were sodomised and intimidated by using military dogs as part of a sadistic game by US military officers, an army investigation into the prison scandal has found, a media report said. The investigation report by Major General George R Ray has also expanded the circle of soldiers considered responsible for abuse beyond the seven military police soldiers already facing charges, to include more than a dozen others — low ranking soldiers, civilian contractors and medics.

"It had nothing to do with interrogation. It was just them on their own being weird," an army officer familiar with the report was quoted saying by the media report. The report, which is yet to be published, criticises the military leadership, from the prison and up through the highest levels of the US chain of command in Iraq at the time. However, it recommends no action against them. Some of the boys at the prison were only 15 years old.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_968636,00050001.htm


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The ultimate blame for the wanton abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq goes all the way to the Pentagon's top civilian and military command, a panel has found. Although the group criticised the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, its chairman said he should not resign because his forced departure would "be a boon to America's enemies".

Mr Rumsfeld and other civilian leaders were criticised for not laying down consistent, specific policies on the treatment of prisoners.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/25/1093246623903.html

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BREAKING: Army Report: Gen. Sanchez Approved Torture at Abu Ghraib

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082804Y.shtml

Psychopharmaceuticals and brain imaging could make prisoner interrogation more humane. Should we use them?

INFOWARS.COM

MSNBC Piece Touts Brain Scanning Technologies and Psychopharmaceuticals as Means to Get Information from Prisoners

The tools for radically transforming tomorrow's interrogations can be found in hospitals worldwide. They're helping to painlessly diagnose Alzheimer's, dyslexia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, insomnia, and brain tumors. The past decade has seen revolutions both in brain-scanning technologies and in drugs that affect the brain's functions. Like personal computers and digital camcorders, these technologies are getting faster, better, and cheaper. And they may have uses in the interrogation room that will render moot debates about the excesses of Abu Ghraib-style treatment of prisoners. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging brain scans, for example, have improved so dramatically that they can now produce high-resolution movies of brain activity. Functional MRIs can measure how the brain reacts when asked certain questions, such as, "Do you know Mr. X?" or, "Have you seen this man?" When you ask someone a question, the parts of the brain responsible for answering will cause certain neurons to fire, drawing blood flow. The oxygen in the blood then changes the brain's magnetic field so that a neural radio signal emitted becomes more intense. Functional MRI scanners detect and calibrate these changes.

And by comparing the resulting images to those of the brain at rest, a computer can produce detailed pictures of the part of the brain answering or not answering the question—in essence, creating a kind of high-tech lie detector. Indeed, a Pentagon agency is already funding Functional MRI research for such purposes.

http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/psychotorture.htm


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Full Report: The Independent Panel To Review DoD Detention Operations...
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6784.htm

Full Report: Investigation of Intelligence Activities At Abu Ghraib
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6784.htm

For Abu Ghraib: The two reports issued this week on the Abu Ghraib prison are an indictment of the way the Bush administration set the stage for Iraqi prisoners to be brutalized by American prison guards, military intelligence officers and private contractors...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6782.htm

I was abused by soldiers, says Hicks:

ALLEGED Australian terrorist David Hicks has pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges and has told his father Terry that he was beaten and abused by US forces...

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10581024%255E401,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Pentagon leaders and Bush administration officials had previously steered clear of describing the physical abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners as torture...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6781.htm