By the Order of the Black Colonels

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/198943/by-the-order-of-the-black-colonels/

By the Order of the Black Colonels
Vzglyad, Russia
By Anna Analbaeva, Dmitriy Scherbakov
Translated By Joanna Swirszcz
7 March 2013
Edited by Gillian Palmer

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David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA and commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, was one of the creators of “torture prisons” in Baghdad. There they beat confessions out of prisoners using the most barbaric methods, including pulling out nails and beating the groin. Petraeus did not personally give out these orders, but two colonels under his command engaged in these methods. The British newspaper The Guardian broke this story after an investigation.

According to the publication, Petraeus did not personally give orders on who to torture or how. His head colonels, James Steele and James Coffman, performed these actions and reported all of the successes of their “work” to their chief. Despite the fact that Steele and Coffman did not torture those arrested with their own hands, both have confessed that they were often present during interrogations using torture. One of the main tasks of the torture centers was to crush the growing resistance.

British journalists were able to talk to workers at Iraqi torture centers. According to General Muntadhera al-Samari, who worked at one of these prisons for a year, workers at the centers did not limit themselves at all: They used currents, they pulled out fingernails, they beat prisoners in the groin.

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It has long been known that the U.S. military uses torture. In early February, former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta confirmed that during the operation to assassinate “Terrorist No. 1,” Osama bin Laden, torture was used. Panetta also frankly admitted that “getting bin Laden” could have been done without the use of torture.

[John2]

1. I still remember

an enlisted U.S. female soldier denigrating an Iraqi prisoner with a dog collar and reports of urinating on the victim. Whatever happened to her chain of command?