new iraq, same torture

[blackumbrella]

months after Saddam Hussein's government was toppled and its torture chambers unlocked, Iraqis are again being routinely beaten, hung by their wrists and shocked with electrical wires, according to a report by a human rights organization.

Iraqi police, jailers and intelligence agents, many of them holding the same jobs they had under Hussein, are "committing systematic torture and other abuses" of detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be released Tuesday.

Legal safeguards are being ignored, political opponents are targeted for arrest, and the government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi "appears to be actively taking part, or is at least complicit, in these grave violations of fundamental human rights," the report concludes.
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Ibrahim Jafari, an interim vice president, said in an interview that security forces needed to be tougher to combat the campaign of violence by opponents of the election.

"I think the security people are not arresting enough and are releasing them too quickly," Jafari said. "And many of the security people are cooperating with the criminals. I think we have to put security as our priority."

The Human Rights Watch report acknowledged that Iraq was "in the throes of a significant insurgency" in which 1,300 police officers and thousands of civilians were killed in the last four months of 2004. But it argued that "no government, not Saddam Hussein's, not the occupying powers and not the Iraqi Interim Government, can justify ill-treatment of persons in custody in the name of security."

beat downs

looks like our cherrypicked thug allawi leaves something to be desired. imagine what it'll be like when we're gone.

 

[NatchezTider]

that's great news! good for allawi! kill them and let the real God sort them out!

don't think there's not going to be a cleansing when uncle sam pulls out. the new government is going to make a lot of hussein-lovers pay dearly for the past 25 years!

our hands are tied in tactics, theirs won't be!

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

As long as it cuts down on American casualties!

 

[NYBamaFan]

Long overdue, if you ask me. How can you complain that the Iraqis are not defending themselves from the terrorists, then complain when they do something?

 

[Pachydermatous]

Long overdue, if you ask me. How can you complain that the Iraqis are not defending themselves from the terrorists, then complain when they do something?

It's called the liberal brain disease: hate is love, peace is war, and Iraq is our big chance.

 

[bamabake]

As long as it cuts down on American casualties!

Rgr that.

 

[Piglet]

Can we just get outa there and let 'em kill each other instead of Americans?