Abuse 'continued after Abu Ghraib'

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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Thursday December 9, 2004
The Guardian

US military officials witnessed the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at a second Baghdad prison at the height of the Abu Ghraib scandal and were threatened and harassed when they attempted to report the abuse, official memos released by the Pentagon have shown.
The documents, which were obtained by human rights organisations, contradict the Pentagon's claims that the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib was isolated to the jail and involved a handful of lowly reservists.

The defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, told Congress last spring that he knew of no other reports of mistreatment outside the prison.

However, documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have revealed that senior Pentagon officials who claimed that Abu Ghraib was an aberration were repeatedly informed of abuse elsewhere through official channels.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1369658,00.html

On edit - link to ACLU press release: http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17156&c=206

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