Prisoners abused

Tuesday, December 7, 2004
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq
threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according
to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The special forces also monitored e-mails sent by defense personnel and ordered them
"not to talk to anyone" in the United States about what they saw, said one memo written
by the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, who complained to his Pentagon bosses about the
harassment.
In addition, the special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner who had been punched
in the face.
Prisoners arriving at a detention center in Baghdad had "burn marks on their backs" as
well as bruises and some complained of kidney pain, according to the June 25, 2004 memo.
FBI agents also reported seeing detainees at Abu Ghraib subjected to sleep deprivation,
humiliation and forced nudity between October and December 2003 - when the most serious
abuses allegedly took place in a scandal that's remains under investigation.
The release of the ACLU documents comes a day after The Associated Press reported that
a senior FBI official wrote a letter to the Army's top criminal investigator complaining
about "highly aggressive" interrogation techniques at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo
Bay dating back to 2002 - more than a year before the scandal broke at the Iraqi prison.

personal comment.. There is nothing moral about abuse. It is not a decent act. A godly man would not do this act. A GODLY man would not support this act. Some like to claim the high ground of morals, we all know god knows us by our deeds not our claims.