Pentagon investigating link between US military and torture centres in Iraq

[unhappycamper]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/pentagon-investigating-link-military-torture

Pentagon investigating link between US military and torture centres in Iraq
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Mona Mahmood
The Guardian, Thursday 7 March 2013 14.30 EST

The Pentagon is investigating allegations linking the US military to human rights abuses in Iraq by police commando units who operated a network of detention and torture centres.

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic, published on Wednesday, disclosed that the US sent a veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee Iraqi commando units involved in some of the worst acts of torture during the American-led occupation.

The allegations, made by US and Iraqi witnesses, implicate US advisers for the first time in these human rights abuses. It is also the first time that the then US commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, has been linked through an adviser to the abuses.

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The Pentagon argument is that it needs time because of the legal implications and also because those named in the documentary no longer serve in the military.




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