More Abuse at "Secret" Prison in Iraq

[HFishbine]

"BAGHDAD - With attention focused on the seven soldiers charged with abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. military and intelligence officials familiar with the situation tell NBC News the Army’s elite Delta Force is now the subject of a Pentagon inspector general investigation into abuse against detainees.

The target is a top-secret site near Baghdad’s airport. The battlefield interrogation facility known as the “BIF” is pictured in satellite photos.

According to two top U.S. government sources, it is the scene of the most egregious violations of the Geneva Conventions in all of Iraq’s prisons. A place where the normal rules of interrogation don’t apply, Delta Force’s BIF only holds Iraqi insurgents and suspected terrorists — but not the most wanted among Saddam’s lieutenants pictured on the deck of cards.

These sources say the prisoners there are hooded from the moment they are captured. They are kept in tiny dark cells. And in the BIF’s six interrogation rooms, Delta Force soldiers routinely drug prisoners, hold a prisoner under water until he thinks he’s drowning, or smother them almost to suffocation."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5024068/

[napi21]

1. Heard this last night on CNN & again this AM on c-span.

Don't remember the newspaper names, but Brian read several articles with quotes from the ICRC inspections going back over a year and many different prisons. Brian even remarked that "it was a year ago and we're just now hearing about it.

Hmmmm, is Pandora about to come out of her box???

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Boykin's boys spreading GOPer democracy to the heathens!

Task Force 121 is Rummy's baby!

[opihimoimoi]

3. This is worse than SAD, its Madness gone Wild. The World has gone Mad

Rummy should be in prison for a long time.

[jean]

4. Boykin could be 'the last straw' - we rarely see him mentioned

I haven't read every word written about the US atrocities but have only seen Boykin mentioned once (in Sy Hersh's The Gray Zone).

When Boykin's name and character comes to light I hope the shit hits the fan. He is the poster boy for right wing, extremist, mutant christian philosophy and practice in this country.

What is it going to take to expose the Taliban wing of the Christian faith in the US for what it is and give 'normal' Christians reason to denounce it?

[dsc]

5. The question will become

will the stuff come out fast enough to do us any good.