The New Iraq "some had their skin peeled off various parts of their bodies"

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK557569.htm

Iraq investigates abuse of prisoners in govt bunker

<snip>Earlier a deputy interior minister put the number of prisoners at 161 and said he was stunned by their treatment.

"They were being treated in an inappropriate way ... they were being abused," Hussein Kamal told Reuters.

"I've never seen such a situation like this during the past two years in Baghdad, this is the worst," he told CNN.

"I saw signs of physical abuse by brutal beating, one or two detainees were paralysed and some had their skin peeled off various parts of their bodies."

"This is totally unacceptable treatment and it is denounced by the minister and everyone in Iraq," he told Reuters.

[mike_c]

1. evidently not denounced by EVERYONE in Iraq....

Nor the work of a "few bad apples," it seems. Sounds pretty systemic to me.