WikiLeaks US Forces in Iraq Turn a Blind Eye to Torture

One document shows the US military was given a video apparently showing Iraqi Army (IA) officers executing a prisoner in the northern town of Talafar.

"The footage shows the IA soldiers moving the detainee into the street, pushing him to the ground, punching him and shooting him," states the log, which also names at least one of the perpetrators.

In another case, US soldiers suspected army officers of cutting off a detainee's fingers and burning him with acid.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told the BBC that if abuse by the Iraqi security forces was witnessed, or reports of it were received, US military personnel were instructed to inform their commanders.

"And at the appropriate level that information would then be shared with the Iraqi authorities and the military for them to take action."

The documents also reveal many previously unreported instances in which US forces killed civilians at checkpoints and during operations.

The Secret Iraq Files: The War. US turned blind eye to torture . Leaked documents on Iraq war contain thousands of allegations of abuse, but a Pentagon order told troops to ignore them.,
An alleged militant identified only as "DAT 326" was detained by the Iraqi army on July 7, 2006 at a checkpoint in the town of Tarmiya, north of Baghdad. When US forces interrogated him later that night, he described hours of brutal abuse at the hands of the Iraqi soldiers, an allegation apparently backed by the findings of a medical exam. DAT 326 states he was told to lay down on his stomach with his hands behind his back, which is when the Iraqi soldiers allegedly stepped, jumped, urinated and spit on him. [...] DAT 326 was evaluated and treated for his injuries at Cobra Clinic. Injuries include blurred vision, diminished hearing in left ear, bleeding in ears, bruising on forehead, neck, chest, back, shoulders, arms, hands, and thighs, cuts over the left eye and on the upper and lower lips, hemorrhaging eyes, blood in nasal cavities, and swollen hands/wrists.

Since the alleged torture was committed by Iraqi forces, the US quickly dropped the case: "Due to no allegation or evidence of US involvement, a US investigation is not being initiated," the report said.

A review of the leaked documents reveals more than 1,000 allegations of abuse committed by Iraqi security forces. Not all of them are credible, as some detainees showed no physical evidence of abuse, while others changed their stories during multiple interrogations.

But hundreds of them -- like "DAT 326" -- are supported by medical evidence and other corroboration. Those reports demonstrate a clear pattern of abuse and torture in Iraqi jails, one that a high-level Pentagon directive barred US forces from investigating.
"Only an initial report will be made"

The instruction not to investigate was handed down in fragmentary order (FRAGO) 242, first mentioned in a report filed on May 16, 2005. Provided the initial report confirms US forces were not involved in the detainee abuse, no further investigation will be conducted unless directed by HHQ.

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[redrosesful1]

@janetpify

Many people in the US continue to have some predjudices against other races. In the

view of the US Human Rights Network, a network of scores of US civil rights and human rights organizations, "Discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color." Discrimination against African

Americans, Latin Americans , and Muslims is widely acknowledged.

[kamulko66]

I am sure that you will not bow except to your government´d massas. You are going down

the garbage, you filthy dogs. You kill people of your own country and people of other nations

because you are a slave to 'governments'. you have no opposing opinion to form. 'do what you

are told thats what they trained you to do ( like a trained animal with no brain). I have no

respect at all to any officer or soldier. Hell fire is your place.

[aaliyahsnow100]

disrespectful but why cant us countries follow the rules of war

[MilliGorusDiyorKi]

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[claudinetaria]

@jaysafish

What are you talking about? Our gov TRAINED AND ARMED THE TALIB´S.

Like Al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden and all the other "bad" guys.

It is AMERICA who is attacking EVERYONE, not the Talibs .

All for oil and minerals. And for to feed the US military murder machine.

[jaysafish]

@claudinetaria Americans do have a reason for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. If they were not out there fighting Taliban who would? The Taliban would attack someone doesn't matter who.

[claudinetaria]

Most Americans will try to excuse our soldiers war crimes on the grounds the soldiers have

no choice but to defend America. No soldier has defended America since WW II. The American soldiers occupying Iraq and Afghanistan are no more defending America than

Hitler´s troops occupying Poland were defending Germany. There is nothing the matter with

defending your country.That is not war crime.Attacking other countries unprovoked

especialy,when you torture, kill civilians, used banned weapons

[gluehweinforever]

@janetpify

And you are living in lalaland, we are NOT RACISTS HERE? ROTFL!

You must be blind,deaf and braindead. lol

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[WhiteFeather67]

If they were truly thinking for themselves, and not just mindless cannon fodder, they would

see that they have much more in common with those poor people whose countries they demolish, than they do the men pulling the strings profitting off of all this needless suffering. but again,

people are so hopelessly enslaved to their subjective ideologies, that murdering peaceful innocent people, is justified to them.