Commissions clear Dutch officers of Iraq abuse

Source: Reuters

Commissions clear Dutch officers of Iraq abuse
By Harro ten Wolde Reuters - 13 minutes ago

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch military investigators used cold
water and noise to interrogate prisoners in Iraq in 2003 but two
independent commissions found on Monday this did not constitute
abuse.

In November, the Dutch daily Volkskrant reported that intelligence
officers had abused dozens of prisoners by hosing them with water
and blasting them with noise during heavy-handed interrogations.
Dutch politicians drew parallels with the abuse by U.S. soldiers
at the Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison.

An independent investigative commission was set up after the
newspaper report, led by former politician Joop van den Berg.
An independent commission that supervises the Dutch intelligence
and security services started a separate investigation.

"Based on jurisprudence of the European Human Rights Court the
commission concludes that there was no torturing or inhumane or
humiliating treatment of detainees by the Counter-Intelligence
and Security team," the intelligence supervisory commission said
in its report.

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