Thursday, March 7, 2013

Guardian/BBC Report: U.S. Secret Detention And Torture Centres Were More Widespread In Iraq Than What Was Reported





Revealed: Pentagon's Link To Iraqi Torture Centres -- The Guardian

Exclusive: General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse

The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war.

Colonel James Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic shows.

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My Comment: If true .... this is a very disturbing report. The full report/documentary is here.

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