“The Army and Department of Defense have aggressively investigated all credible allegations of detainee abuse and held individuals accountable,” said Lt. Col. Gerard Healy, an Army spokesman.
Sure they have.
Documents contain descriptions of severe detainee mistreatment beyond Abu Ghraib.
By John Hendren
Times Staff Writer
January 25, 2005
WASHINGTON — Pentagon documents released Monday disclosed that Iraqi prisoners had lodged dozens of abuse complaints against U.S. and Iraqi personnel who guarded them at a little-known palace in Baghdad converted to a U.S. prison. Among the allegations was that guards had sodomized a disabled man and killed his brother, whose dying body was tossed into a cell, atop his sister.
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