Rights group urges inquiry on U.S. abuses

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03414644.htm

GENEVA, June 3 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called on the United States on Thursday to carry out an independent inquiry to investigate which officials authorised "coercive interrogation techniques" to be used on detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New York-based rights group, said that the commission of inquiry should be bipartisan with the power to appoint a special prosecutor.

He added that he had made the recommendation at closed-door talks last week with U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who was "noncommittal".

U.S. military abuse of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, which emerged last month, has sparked global outrage.

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1. of course Condi is non-committal

she's involved in it up to her nosehairs, at the very least with direct knowledge of how high the problem really goes. Driving the getaway car is just as much as crime as robbing the bank.