Iraqi Official Probes Torture Allegations

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi official said Monday he will investigate allegations that Interior Ministry officers tortured suspects detained in connection with the country's insurgency.

Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal's announcement came after U.S. troops took control of a ministry building in Baghdad late Sunday, apparently in connection with repeated allegations that Iraq security forces were illegally detaining and torturing suspects.

Kamal, the Interior Ministry's undersecretary for security, confirmed the raid took place but said all those being held there were "terrorists."

Kamal said he was forming a special committee to look into torture allegations and anyone found abusing suspects will be punished.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_torture_allegations

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1. LAT: U.S. military to search ministries

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The raid occurred amid suspicions that militia elements with ties to the Shiite Muslim political movements that dominate the government have been arresting, torturing and killing suspected political or sectarian enemies.

The most prominent Shiite militias in Iraq are the Badr Brigade, long associated with the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and the al-Mahdi army, a militia formed by followers of Muqtada al-Sadr.

An Iraqi police source said there were suspicions that the Jadiriyah office was a base for the Badr Brigade and that the people in Interior Ministry uniforms were militiamen.

To underline U.S. concerns about the issue of detainees, a senior U.S. military commander met Monday with Bayan Jabor, the interior minister, the police source said. The U.S. military had been tipped off by
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