'Hundreds' involved in prisoner abuse

[kpete]

From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Washington
April 27, 2006

MORE than 600 US military and civilian personnel have been implicated in abuse of "war on terror" detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the Guantanamo detention camp, US rights groups said.

The rights groups' report came as a US Army colonel was reportedly going to be charged in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, becoming the most senior officer facing legal action in the case.
The three groups who researched what they called "widespread" torture and detainee abuse by US personnel said many abuses were never investigated, or inquiries were often concluded or stalled without further action.

"Two years ago, US officials said the abuses at Abu Ghraib were aberrations and that people who abused detainees would be brought to justice," said Meg Satterthwaite of New York University's Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, one of the groups behind the study.

"Yet our research shows that detainee abuses were widespread, and few people have truly been brought to justice," Ms Satterthwaite said.

more at:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18944305-38198,00.html

[TomInTib]

1. "A few bad apples on the night shift"

Yeah, right, Rummy.

Looks like that senior officer ripped the lid off the thing.

Bastards.

from article:
They found that "many abuses were never investigated, and investigations that did occur often closed prematurely, or stalled without resolution," said a summary of the report.


k&r

[ReadTomPaine]

2. Tip of the iceberg

Even the term "widespread" is insufficent. This was standard operating policy from the start with these facilities, everyone from the press to the administration were winking about this issue with statements that spelled it out between the lines until things started to backfire.

Amusingly, It was Rumsfeld himself who made the most concrete statements against this in the public space. Of course, if he claims one thing, you can safely assume the reverse is true.

[izzie]

3. Any one in their right mind could see this.

As if world wide low grade servicemen all started doing the same thing as just about the same time. And on top of it they had the prisons and bags for the heads all made up. This came from the top and any one with half a brain knows it. Maybe only the PFC's are getting hit with and going to jail but we know