Documents raise questions on treatment of detainees

[cory777]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show "unjustified homicide" of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU.

Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. The U.S. military gave the ACLU the documents earlier in the week as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the rights group.

Among the documents are autopsy reports and military investigations, including 25 to 30 cases the ACLU says it believes are "unjustified homicide." Some of the homicides in the documents are widely known and have been reported in the media, such as the case of four Iraqi detainees executed by a group of U.S. soldiers and then pushed into a Baghdad canal in 2007.

Others are thought by the ACLU to be new. In one such case, a detainee was killed by an unnamed sergeant who walked into a room where the detainee was lying wounded "and assaulted him ... then shot him twice thus killing him," one of the investigating documents says. The sergeant than instructed the other soldiers present to lie about the incident. Later, the document says an unnamed corporal then shot the deceased detainee in the head after finding his corpse.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/22/detainee.documents/index.html?hpt=T2

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Sneer." - x VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney (R)

[SpiralHawk]

4. Honorable Americans will never forget

[democrank]

5. Sickening

When I looked at this post, 274 DUers had done the same. Only a handful responded. Shocking that torture hardly gets a response on a Democratic site.

[Heywood J]

6. Why?

We already know that they did it, we know many details of how it happened, and nearly all of us find it sickening, but we can't do much about it. Instead of torture-apathy, you're seeing torture-overload.