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New scandal reveal the involvement of U.S. advisers in torture in Iraq
3/9/2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
Baghdad: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat
despite the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq about two years ago, the news the U.S. Army Special scandals still be disclosed. If the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has included jailers and Sjanat who were administering the prison, the report revealed newspaper «The Guardian» British, the day before yesterday, making the torture, which affected Iraqis have risen to the level of participation of U.S. advisers in those operations which were carried out by Iraqi police, which was managed by U.S. forces at the time.
According to the report, two U.S. Army advisers implicated for the first time in human rights violations committed by police special forces in Iraq, which established a network of torture centers in post-war Iraq. The report identified the name and advisors are: retired Colonel James Steele, one of the veterans of the Special Forces, and Colonel James H. Kaufman. Steele was sent to Iraq after the US-led invasion the United States to help organize the paramilitary forces in an attempt to curb the Sunni insurgency. The work Kaufman along with Steele in detention centers established U.S. funding and reporting directly to Gen. David Petraeus, who at the time was commander of the multinational forces in Iraq. According to the report, there is no evidence that the steel or Kaufman They torture prisoners, but they were sometimes they are located in centers where torture. Noteworthy that one of the main sources of that story is Maj. Gen. Muntadhar al-Samarrai, who has worked with Steele and Kaufman for a year when it was formed and Iraqi special forces units. He said that steel and Kaufman note of everything that happens in those centers. spoke Samarrai, who served as assistant secretary of Interior then cleft Captain, during the period from 2003 - 2005, for the first time in detail about the U.S. role in the interrogation units. He described the «worst methods of torture» he saw at all including the suspension of detainees from their legs and take off their fingernails and beat them in sensitive areas. were no U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) to a letter sent by the German news agency (d. b. a) In order to comment on it . Steele responded to questions from the Guardian and the «BBC» English about his role in the interrogations, Kaufman, declined to comment, according to the report. At the time announced by the Ministry of Human Rights in Iraq not to relate to the matter, he stressed member of the Iraqi parliament from the Iraqi List and a member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary Hamid al-Mutlaq, this is not new to the U.S. behavior in Iraq. Said Kamel Amin, the spokesman of the Ministry of Human Rights in Iraq, told the «Middle East», that «this report speaks of an earlier period where all things under control the U.S. military has no connection to the Ministry of Human Rights so we do not have a specific comment at stake». But Hamid al-Mutlaq, a leading figure in the Iraqi List, told «Middle East» that «torture U.S. against Iraqis support some bad elements of the military and the police is not new, and that what happened at Abu Ghraib prison and other incidents followed confirmed beyond doubt the involvement of Americans in cases of torture against Iraqi citizens, and are devoid of the most basic human values and standards. He Mutlaq «But the Americans did not only do it, but worked What is worse when trained elements in the Iraqi army and police has overtaken the Americans in the methods of torture, and that what we see now in the prisons and jails of torture and rape of women and even men is in fact more than what he did the Americans ».
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