Torture in Iraqi prisons sanctioned by CIA

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report

Sunday May 02, 2004 10:44

by Hilal

A soldier accused of abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility wrote to his family last December that US military intelligence was pleased with how the Iraqis were being treated.

"We have had a very high rate with our style of getting them to break," the soldier, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II, wrote in a December 18th e-mail released by his uncle. "They usually end up breaking within hours."

Frederick also wrote that he questioned some of the abuses. "I questioned this and the answer I got was: This is how military intelligence wants it done,".

This sexual abuse and torture was presided over by Ms Janis Karpinski, an Army reserve brigadier general. She is a business consultant in civilian life.

Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick II
Charles A. Graner
Sergeant Javal Davis
Megan Ambuhl
Sabrina Harman
Jeremy Sivits
Private Lynndie England

Private Lynn England, is the infidel tramp with the cigarette dangling from her mouth as she gives the thumbs up sign while pointing at a mans penis, has got herself pregnant in the prison and has been moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Charles A. Graner is the soldier standing with his arms crossed behind the pile of naked prisoners being forced to masturbate.

Prisoner No. 153399 is the dead prisoner show wrapped in plastic. Another picture shows an empty blood splattered interrogation room.

Specialist Matthew Wisdom, an MP, reported the following after delivering seven prisoners to Abu Gharib prison:
"SFC Snider grabbed my prisoner and threw him into a pile. . . . I do not think it was right to put them in a pile. I saw SSG Frederic, SGT Davis and CPL Graner walking around the pile hitting the prisoners. I remember SSG Frederick hitting one prisoner in the side of its ribcage. The prisoner was no danger to SSG Frederick. . . . I left after that."

He returned later and reported:
"I saw two naked detainees, one masturbating to another kneeling with its mouth open. I thought I should just get out of there. I didn’t think it was right . . . I saw SSG Frederick walking towards me, and he said, “Look what these animals do when you leave them alone for two seconds.” I heard PFC England shout out, “He’s getting hard.”

Joseph M. Darby, MP, gave evidence that Frederick, on one occasion, “had punched a detainee in the chest so hard that the detainee almost went into cardiac arrest.” In letters and e-mails to family members, Frederick repeatedly noted that the military-intelligence teams, which included C.I.A. officers and linguists and interrogation specialists from private defense contractors, were the dominant force inside Abu Ghraib. In January he wrote:

"I questioned some of the things that I saw . . . such things as leaving inmates in their cell with no clothes or in female underpants, handcuffing them to the door of their cell—and the answer I got was, “This is how military intelligence (MI) wants it done.” . . . . MI has also instructed us to place a prisoner in an isolation cell with little or no clothes, no toilet or running water, no ventilation or window, for as much as three days".

In November, Frederick wrote, an Iraqi prisoner under the control of the C.I.A. and its paramilitary employees—was brought to his unit for questioning. “They stressed him out so bad that the man passed away. They put his body in a body bag and packed him in ice for approximately twenty-four hours in the shower. . . . The next day the medics came and put his body on a stretcher, placed a fake IV in his arm and took him away.” The dead Iraqi was never entered into the prison’s inmate-control system, Frederick recounted, “and therefore never had a number.”

Under the fourth Geneva convention, an occupying power can jail civilians who pose an “imperative” security threat, but it must establish a regular procedure for insuring that only civilians who remain a genuine security threat be kept imprisoned. Prisoners have the right to appeal any internment decision and have their cases reviewed. Human Rights Watch complained to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that civilians in Iraq remained in custody month after month with no charges brought against them. Abu Ghraib had become, in effect, another Guantánamo.

Similar torture and murder is being carried out daily in Bhagram northe of Kabul where Irish Soldiers serve alongside British, American, German and other Crusader thugs.

IRELAND IS PART OF THIS TORTURE MACHINE