U.S. accused of kidnappings in Iraq

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/14/kidnap/index_np.html

Congress demands that the Pentagon release documents that could show U.S. forces kidnapped family members of terror suspects.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has until 5 p.m. Friday to hand over a raft of documents to Congress that might shed new light on detainee abuse in Iraq. The documents could substantiate little-known allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their family members.

It now appears that kidnapping, scarcely covered by the media, and absent in the major military investigations of detainee abuse, may have been systematically employed by U.S. troops. Salon has obtained Army documents that show several cases where U.S. forces abducted terror suspects’ families. After he was thrown in prison, Cpl. Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader at Abu Ghraib, told investigators the military routinely kidnapped family members to force suspects to turn themselves in.

A House subcommittee led by Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays took the unusual step last month of issuing Rumsfeld a subpoena for the documents after months of stonewalling by the Pentagon. Shays had requested the documents in a March 7 letter. "There was no response" to the letter, a frustrated Shays told Salon. "We are not going to back off this."

[EFerrari]

1. The watchdogs, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch

have been reporting this.

We've been taking hostages, women and children since day one

It's hard to know if I should be more mad than I am fricken ashamed.

[Sadie5]

2. what is released

will have blackened out pages and will not help the committee.

[EFerrari]

3. Because the committee is theater and doesn't want to be helped.

It's exactly like being asked to prove an election was stolen.

Excuse me? What about showing me transparently that is was clean?

The black out pages are the evidence, had the committee any interest in actually pursuing this question.

[Mir]

4. It is simply amazing

how disgracefully we have conducted ourselves in this war. Kidnappings, torture, rape, murder, plunder, etc., etc. and all right in front of the whole world - and under "leaders" that actually condone and try to justify it all. We've turned into a rogue state in every aspect. How sickening and sad.