This whole scandal keeps getting worse and worse. According to this local newspaper I'm reading, the Taguba's report cites:
-Americal Service Personnel punched, slapped, and kicked detainees and jumped on their bare feet.
-forced detainees to remain naked for several days at a time.
-used military dogs withouut muzzles to intimidate detainees (resulting in one case of mauling)
-threatened to rape male detainees
-poured cold water on naked detainees
-sodomized a detainee with a chemical light (and perhaps also a broomstick).
-raped a female detainee
This one doesn't come from the Taguba report, and it's pretty hard to believe:
Quote:
Several published sources say video footage exists of Iraqi guards raping young boys while U.S. servicemen watch and of U.S. servicemen raping an Iraqi woman.
Apparantly a lot of these detainees weren't even terrorists or enemy combatants.
Quote:
Most detainees were civilians, and few were suspected of terrorism. The Red Cross, in its February report on conditions in Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, estimates that 70 to 90 percent of Iraqi detainees were picked up erroneously. This means that most of the people who endured this treatment were as innocent of terrorism as you or I...
As further proof some of the prisoners tortured weren't criminals or terrorists, look at todays headline: U.S. soldiers release 300 Iraqi's from prison.
