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WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs: US Troops Abused Prisoners For Years After Abu Ghraib

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« on: October 23, 2010, 03:48:32 am »

The New York Times adds:

    In a case reminiscent of Abu Ghraib, in which guards photographed themselves with Iraqis whom they had posed in humiliating positions, a soldier was censured for writing a mocking slur with a marker on the forehead of a crying detainee.

The Guardian reports:

    • US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, **** and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.


    • A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.

    • More than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.

The Guardian includes an incredible Google Map of every death in Iraq.

The documents include accounts of Iraqi forces sodomizing and electrocuting prisoners, according to Al-Jazeera News, which has been collaborating along with The Guardian and Le Monde with WikiLeaks on the latest document dump.

In addition, Al-Jazeera is reporting that the documents include more revelations about prisoner abuse, the first official civilian deathcount, tales of murder at military checkpoints and the role of Blackwater, the controversial contractor.

Among documents uncovered by HuffPost readers is one that captures the sometimes chaotic nature of a conflict in which an army of private security contractors sometimes clashes with the U.S. armed forces. In this report, a U.S. Special Operations soldier reports how soliders were fired on by civilian security contractors, resulting in a wounded U.S. soldier:

    AT ___, A SOF ___ REPORTS A POSSIBLE 'BLUE ON BLUE' (Small arms fire) WHILE TRAVELING ON Route ___ IN BAGHDAD (ZONE ___). THE ___ HAD DEPARTED WEST BIAP AND WAS ENGAGED BY Small arms fire AS IT PASSED A CONVOY OF 3X ___ (GOLD ___) WHICH WERE ASSESSED AS PSD OR CIVILIAN SECURITY CONTRACTORS. THE ENGAGEMENT RESULTED IN 1X Coalition Forces (US) Wounded in Action (RTD). -___ INVESTIGATION PENDING.

The New York Times reports that the documents describe at least 6 deaths of prisoners in the custody of Iraqi military and police forces and a "ground-level look at the shadow war between US and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards." In addition to showing how the Iranian paramilitary group and Hezbollah have trained Shiite militia leaders involved in kidnapping and murder in Iraq, the reports demonstrate:

    Citing the testimony of detainees, a captured militant's diary and numerous uncovered weapons caches, among other intelligence, the field reports recount Iran's role in providing Iraqi militia fighters with rockets, magnetic bombs that can be attached to the underside of cars, "explosively formed penetrators," or E.F.P.'s, which are the most lethal type of roadside bomb in Iraq, and other weapons. Those include powerful .50-caliber rifles and the Misagh-1, an Iranian replica of a portable Chinese surface-to-air missile, which, according to the reports, was fired at American helicopters and downed one in east Baghdad in July 2007.

A Pentagon spokesman strongly condemned WikiLeaks's upcoming release, noting that the documents "expose secret information that could make our troops even more vulnerable to attack in the future. Just as with the leaked Afghan documents, we know our enemies will mine this information looking for insights into how we operate, cultivate sources, and react in combat situations, even the capability of our equipment. This security breach could very well get our troops and those they are fighting with killed."
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