Jailed Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, says US army (Leaked Report)

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1209681,00.html




The Taguba report described how "ghost detainees" were brought to the military police (MP) unit running several jails in Iraq by OGAs (military jargon for other government agencies, often a reference to the CIA). "The various detention facilities operated by the 800th MP Brigade have routinely held persons brought to them by OGAs without accounting for them, knowing their identities, or even the reason for their detention," the report stated.

"The joint interrogation and debriefing centre (JIDC) at Abu Ghraib called these detainees 'ghost detainees'. On at least one occasion, the 320th MP Battalion at Abu Ghraib held a handful of 'ghost detainees' for OGAs that they moved around within the facility to hide them from a visiting International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) survey team. This manoeuvre was deceptive, contrary to army doctrine, and in violation of international law."

Amanda Williamson, an ICRC spokeswoman, said its prison inspectors were not aware that prisoners had been hidden from them, but if such practices occurred they would represent a violation of the Geneva Conventions. The conventions stipulate that the Red Cross should have unlimited access to all prisoners, "except for reasons of imperative military necessity and then only as a exceptional and temporary measure"

[Spentastic]

1. WAR CRIMES

How many more do we need?

[maddezmom]

2. "ghost detainees" ~ last straw for Red Cross

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x530460#530533

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

3. This happened during WWII

SAme deal, only the Germans were the ones doing the cover-up.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Locked thread with FULL REPORT here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=530747&mesg_id=530747

[FreakinDJ]

5. So how long has the Administration been sitting on these reports

How long have they known and what did they know.

The question is always the same and here is one more example. This administration rules by secrecy

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Hiding prisoners from the ICRC?

oh this just keeps getting better and better.

For the prisoners to be handled in this way means that it was a coordinated effort, that a lot of people at the prison had to know and participate in it, it was deliberate and it was sanctioned from higher up the chain of command. We're not talking a few bad apples here, we're talking the entire barrel.

Hey, what's that stench? It smells like rotten fish around here.

[Just Me]

7. Good Lord, people,...we have completely lost all credibility,...

,...as "occupiers".

Geez.

I am really sad about all this,...but, I must say, America needed a humility check.

I am glad it is all coming out into the open. This is, perhaps, precisely the remedy for curing the PNAC disease.