US violates Iraq Sovereignty - raids Iraq Gov run "Prison"/disarm guards

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1250526,00.html

US military police raid Iraqi detention centre to stop abuse of prisoners

Confusion over armed soldiers' intervention

Peter Beaumont in Baghdad Wednesday June 30, 2004 The Guardian

American military police yesterday raided a building belonging to the Iraqi ministry of the interior where prisoners were allegedly being physically abused by Iraqi interrogators.

The raid appeared to be a violation of the country's new sovereignty, leading to angry scenes inside the ministry between Iraqi policemen and US soldiers.

The military police, who had been told of abuse, seized an area known as the Guesthouse just outside the ministry's main building. They disarmed the Iraqi policemen and at one stage threatened to set free prisoners whose handcuffs they removed, according to Iraqi officials. <snip>

The men were captured in the first big Iraqi-led anti-crime and anti-terrorism operation, which took place a few days before the transfer of power, with US military police in support and using US satellite images.

Senior Iraqi officers described those captured as "first class murderers, kidnappers and terrorists with links to al-Ansar" - a militant group in the former Kurdish no-fly zone - who had all admitted to "at least 20 crimes while being questioned". <snip>

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. So Iraq isn't really a "free" nation then, is it?

:eyes:

[w13rd0]

2. Funny...

...NPR was just talking about this raid yesterday. And one of the puppet representatives was mentioning how this was an example of how the "new Iraqi government" would get a hold of the security situation. Ah, can't you just taste the liberation?