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Wiki-leaks: 1300 cases of Iraqi torture covered up
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by MmeVoltaire
Fri Oct 22, 2010 at 01:57:49 PM PDT

Al Jazeera has just begun reporting on the 10,000 Wikileaks documents they've had for weeks now. There is no text yet, but here is the link to the first 6-minute clip, which centers on 1300 reports US soldiers made of Iraqi-on-Iraqi detainee torture and murder that were covered up by the Defense Department.

Al-Jazeera's Wiki-leaks on Iraqi Torture
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101022184243877818.html

The piece is hard to watch, and hard to listen to. Accounts of sodomy with water bottles and hoses, electrodes attached to feet and genitals, people being beaten to death or unarmed people shot at roadblocks. The rape of a 15-year-old boy.

It is heartening that soldiers reported this, but it is disgusting that per Donald Rumsfeld they were told the proper action was not to try and STOP this type of thing, but to REPORT it only through "proper channels." There is a press conference in which you see him overruling a general on this. There was a specific rule, FRAGO-242, a fragmentary order that ruled out any US intervention in Iraqi on Iraqi torture.

Naturally the proper channels eventually led to people with no interest in investigating the torture or stopping it.

more:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101022184243877818.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/22/912731/-Wiki-leaks:-1300-cases-of-Iraqi-torture-covered-up

Wikileaks: Secret Iraq War Death Toll Set at 285,000
WikiLeaks Dumps 400,000 Classified Military Documents.

In what is being described as the largest release of secret U.S. military documents ever, whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks has released a trove of classified reports about the war in Iraq, including a secret U.S. government tally that put the Iraqi death toll at 285,000, according to news sources that received advanced copies of the documents.

The documents include evidence of state sanctioned torture by the Iraqi government, new evidence of Iraqi government death squads, and Iran's involvement in funneling arms to Shiite militias, according to Arab news channel Al Jazeera, which has been able to review the documents before their release.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-dump-put-iraqi-war-death-toll-285000/story?id=11949670