ACLU-Autopsy Reports Reveal Homicides of Detainees in U.S. Custody

[callady]

US detainees 'murdered' during interrogations

By Associated Press

10/25/05 "Associated Press" -- -- Washington -- At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.

The analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union, released today, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterised 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries", as noted in the autopsy reports.

The 44 deaths represent a partial group of the total number of prisoners who have died in US custody overseas; more than 100 have died of natural and violent causes.

In one case, the report said, a detainee died after being smothered during interrogation by military intelligence officers in November 2003. In another case cited by the report, a prisoner died of asphyxiation and blunt force injuries after he was left standing, shackled to the top of a door frame, with a gag in his mouth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10751.htm


Autopsy reports reveal homicides of detainees in U.S. custody
(released by the ACLU 10/24/05 | More Torture Documents Released Under FOIA)

See Entire Report Here:
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. bush used to make a big deal about Saddam's cruelty after

they admitted there weren't any WMD. After the prisoner scandals, he has clammed up about that too.