Former Iraq Minister: U.S. Forces Covered Up Abuses

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s Governing Council long suspected abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison but American soldiers covered them up each time Iraqi officials went to investigate, the former interior minister said Wednesday.



Nouri Badran, who resigned as interior minister last month, also told Reuters in an interview that the United States must allow Iraqis to participate in any investigation into prisoner abuses if Washington wanted to repair its credibility in Iraq.



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"The abuses have been happening for a long time and the occupation forces knew about them. We heard about them from prisoners who were released. The occupation officials said nothing when we asked them," Badran said.


"When Iraqi security forces arrested a suspect, the occupation forces used to come and take him and we did not know anything about him afterwards. We did not imagine that the abuses reached these levels," he added.

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=2&u=/nm/20040512/wl_nm/iraq_prison_dc

yet, the presidentiaL race is too cLose to caLL! :eyes:

Meanwhile, back at the Shit House in Washington, Bush is drinking heavily and taking drugs while D*ldo Cheney tries to spin the latest damning news coming out of BoyKings war.

From the article:

..."The abuses have been happening for a long time and the occupation forces knew about them. We heard about them from prisoners who were released. The occupation officials said nothing when we asked them," Badran said.

"When Iraqi security forces arrested a suspect, the occupation forces used to come and take him and we did not know anything about him afterwards. We did not imagine that the abuses reached these levels," he added.

seems like it was SOP?

Charles Horman case of Iraq. Government denying and whitewashing everything, reported to be in Iraqi custody but they deny it, released one day after father files law suit. Many similarities...

Thirty one years later the Charles Horman case is still going on. Declassified docs show that CIA knew and where complicit in Horman's disappearance and execution in 1973 Chile.