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>GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
>Havana. April, 29 2004
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>U.S. soldiers abuse Iraqi prisoners
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>NEW YORK-U.S. soldiers have abused and humiliated Iraqi
>prisoners, according to the CBS television network, which
>showed photos of such mistreatment inside a Baghdad jail.
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>The images, broadcast as part of the "60 Minutes II"
>program, demonstrated male and female U.S. troops laughing
>and joking in front of naked, hooded Iraqi prisoners in the
>Abu Ghraib prison.
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>The photos showed soldiers who run the prison, most them
>reserve troops, placing prisoners on top of boxes and tying
>their arms with cables, telling them that if they fell off,
>they would be electrocuted.
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>One photo shows a pyramid of naked prisoners with insults
>in English written on their bodies, and with soldiers
>standing on top of them. Several other photos showed
>prisoners forced to pose as though they were sodomizing
>each other or having oral sex with each other.
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>As a consequence of these photos, which came into the hands
>of Department of Defense officials last month, the Pentagon
>ordered the suspension of 17 soldiers, six of whom are
>facing court martial.
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>Hard Times for US: Abuse of Prisoners To Be Shown by CBS
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>Washington, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Details until now being
>kept secret over prisoner abuse by US forces in an Iraqi
>detention center will be revealed by CBS, it was announced
>Thursday.
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>For the first time, CBS program 60 Minutes II will show
>some of the pictures that led to an Army investigation over
>US soldiers abuse and humiliation of Iraqis being held at
>Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
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>In one of the pictures, an Iraqi prisoner is shown standing
>on a box with his head covered, wires attached to his
>hands. He was told that if he fell off the box, he would be
>electrocuted, the US Army report reveals.
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>"We went into Iraq to stop things like this from happening,
>and indeed, here they are happening under our tutelage,"
>admitted a man with extensive interrogation experience,
>former Marine Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan, according to
>CBS.
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>There are many more pictures that show Americans, men and
>women in military uniforms, posing with naked Iraqi
>prisoners, the report said, and there are shots of the
>prisoners stacked in a pyramid, one with a slur written on
>his skin in English.
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>"Our soldiers could be taken prisoner as well. And we
>expect our soldiers to be treated well by the adversary, by
>the enemy. And if we can´t hold ourselves up as an example
>of how to treat people with dignity and respect... We can´t
>ask that other nations to that to our soldiers as well,
>"deputy director of coalition operations in Iraq, Brigadier
>General Mark Kimmitt told CBS.
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>US has signed immunity agreements for US soldiers with many
>countries.
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>But Kimmitts´ remarks contradict, though, what one of the
>soldiers facing court martial as a result of the
>investigation wrote in letters to his family.
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>"Military intelligence has encouraged and told us "Great
>job", "he wrote.
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