U.S. soldiers punished for abusing detainees in Cuba

U.S. soldiers punished for abusing detainees in Cuba

November 12, 2004

BY CAROL ROSENBERG
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPER

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Three more U.S. soldiers have been punished for mistreating inmates at the Guantanamo prison, among them an Army officer who mishandled the case of a guard who threw cleaning solvent on a detainee, the military said Thursday.

A private first class at the Camp Delta prison threw the solvent in January, said Command Sgt. Maj. Anthony Mendez, the camp's superintendent.
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The military disclosed the cases during the same week a Sudanese captive alleged in a lawsuit that he was subjected to abuse at Guantanamo that included sexual humiliation and brutal interrogations.

What is noteworthy about the allegations in the suit -- filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington by Ibrahim al-Qosi, 44 -- is that the captive was held for four months in isolation and had contact only with his Air Force lawyer and guards, meaning he could not have been imitating the reports of abuses that arose out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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http://www.freep.com/news/nw/gitmo12e_20041112.htm

"female interrogators rubbed their bodies suggestively against detainees, that U.S. soldiers or interrogators performed sex acts in front of prisoners and displayed pornography in an interrogation room."

Who were the interrogators if they weren't service connected?

And more than half of the people in this country fully support this kind of thing. Yet another disgusting, sadistic story of abuse that will get swept under the carpet. It's going to be one of those days...