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Wikileaks document confirm Tom Fox died for our sins

Tom Fox with some children

Christian Peacemaker members, including some of those who have been taken captive, had been investigating abuses at the hands of special police and military groups months before the Nov. 15 discovery of 173 detainees in the basement of an Interior Ministry building. American soldiers who liberated the prisoners said some appeared to have been tortured by their Iraqi government captors.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/13/193689/-Tom-Fox,-death-squadsthe-dogs-of-war

At the time I knew the quote was too kind. At the time I knew US trained Death Squads were active in Iraq. The 173 liberated hostages did not "appear to have been tortured" as the American press so delicately put it. The BBC was much more honest:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/7/170153/-Are-US-trained-death-squads-in-Iraq-holding-Christian-hostages

The return to torture and killing by the security forces is another embarrassment for the American and British governments

The list compiled by Human Rights Watch includes beating detainees with cables, hanging them from their wrists for long periods and giving electric shocks to sensitive parts of the body.

From a video given to the BBC by the Association of Muslim Scholars (a Sunni Muslim organization), it seems another particularly brutal form of torture can also be added - drilling into the knees, elbows and shoulders of victims

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UPDATE: Some may find this claim hard to swallow. When these stories were hot topics in 2005, all three of the reporters who covered it were murdered.

Steve Vincent (New York Time), Yasser Salihee (Knight Ridder) and Fakher Haider (New York Times).

All three journalists have this in common: That was the last story these journalists covered before they were shot to death in Iraq in 2005.

More:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wikileaks-document-confirm-by-Henry-Porter-101022-915.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/22/912817/-Tom-Fox-died-for-our-sins.-%28UPDATE%29

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