23 OTT 2010

First, the coverage of torture practiced by the Iraqi military, but also lots of killings of civilians Americans at checkpoints, including 681 pregnant women and children. The Pentagon downplayed by noting that many episodes were "at the time were widely reported in news services, but the damage is potentially immense. For its part, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has condemned "in terms of the most 'clear as possible" disclosure of any document that puts at risk the lives of Americans.
In files declassified, there is' the story of torture of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers (physical abuse of any kind, with gruesome details, supported by medical reports) and systematically ignored by the Americans, except for a isolated intervention in 2005. There is talk of systems similar to those used under Saddam Hussein held to toe with whipped heavy cable, others hung from hooks attached to the ceiling or on the body receiving electric shocks, and even sexual violence or the threat (of an inmate told having been sodomized with a bottle of water, another with a hose).
At least six prisoners, if not more, 'died from beatings.
At least six prisoners, if not more, 'died from beatings.
The U.S. military discovered thousands of victims of summary executions, without which this was reported. There 's also the case of an Apache helicopter, that already' involved in the killing of two journalists from the Reuters documented by Wikileaks, which he shot two gunmen who wanted to surrender. And it turns out that in 2005 Al Qaeda wanted to attack the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib, the "prison of torture " Obama closed by the Administration.
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