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Previously Classified Reports Confirm Prisoners Tortured To Death In War On Terra

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Previously classified government documents newly released to the American Civil Liberties Union confirm that official investigators have determined that prisoners have been tortured to death by American agents in the War on Terra.

While proposing a truth and reconciliation commission for exposure of BushCo crimes, Alexa wrote here last December 27 of the many witnesses:

to the ongoing crimes of the Torture Administration, including murder. Yes, I said murder.

Yes, she was right. Even the government, now, says so.
A CID investigation of the deaths of two men at Bagram "Control Point" in Afghanistan in late 2002 determined that both men:

have been killed by blood clots that were dislodged and travelled to their hearts, causing pulmonary embolism. The blood clots, and their subsequent dislodging, were caused by sustained standing chained in place, as well as by sleep deprivation and dozens of beatings by guards and possibly interrogators. The investigation reveals systems of torture perpetrated by Military Intelligence and the Military Police guards at the BCP, as well as allegations of torture at joint American-Afghani prisons in Kabul, and maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The torture at BCP takes many forms, including beatings, sleep deprivation, being chained standing to a fixed object for periods exceeding 24 hours, allegations of sexual torture and humiliation, allegations of the use of dogs both to degrade and frighten the detainees, and degradation through the forced performance of emasculating and disgusting tasks, such as the forcing of a detainee to pick plastic bottle caps out of a latrine can filled with feces.

Previously classified portions of the "Church report" state:

The behavior alleged in the December 2002 Bagram death cases was clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance. In both instances, the deaths followed interrogation sessions in which unauthorized techniques were allegedly employed, but in both cases, these sessions were followed bu further alleged abusive behavior outside of the interrogation booth. In light of the uncertainty, the cases are considered for purposes of this report to be interrogation related.

These victims were Habibullah and Dilawar, the latter the focus of the film Taxi To The Dark Side. While to date 15 Americans have been charged in these men's deaths, the harshest punishment meted out has been three months of confinement.

A CID investigation of the death of Dilar Dababa on June 12, 2003 at Baghdad International Airport determined that:

Dababa was captured by Coalition Forces and transported to BIAP. Throughout the night, soldiers forced him to do "physical training": he was made to kneel down and stand up repeatedly, lie down and standup, and hold a box above his head while lying down that he dropped on his face and torso when his arms tired. After training, a soldier constructed a stinkbomb using a Meal Ready to Eat heater, tabasco sauce, and water, and placed it in Dababa's cell. The stinkbomb caused respiratory agitation and coughing. In the morning of June 13, 2003, Dababa attempted to escape, during which two soldiers subdued him using "necessary force." One soldier punched Dababa above the left eye which caused a laceration about 2.5 cm wide that required sutures. After medical examination, he had no indications of serious injury. That evening, Dababa was found dead lying on the ground in his cell. An autopsy revealed that he died of a closed head injury that caused hemorrhaging within the brain. There was insufficient evidence to prove or disprove that soldiers committed Homicide or Involuntary Manslaughter; however, the investigation established probable cause that the guard, who made the stink bomb, committed Dereliction of Duty and Cruelty and Maltreatment.

Another investigation:

established probable cause to believe that U.S. forces committed homicide in 2003 when they participated in the binding of detainee Abed Mowhoush in a sleeping bag during an interrogation, causing him to die of asphyxiation.

Mowhoush was an Iraqi general that US "intelligence" hallucinated was responsible for numerous attacks upon the Coalition of the Killing; he was tortured and abused by various CIA agents, military officers, and independent contractors until his death. An Army interrogator, Lewis Welshofer Jr., was convicted in 2006 of "negligent homicide" in Mowhoush's death: his sentence was a reprimand, loss of $6000 in pay, and a two-month confinement to his base "or his place of worship."

Full post as published by Never In Our Names on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).