Pentagon Has Videos of Sexual Perversion at Iraq Detention!!

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Pentagon Has Videos of Sexual Perversion at Iraq Detention!!
Tue Feb 14, 2006 21:19

Pentagon Has Videos Of Sexual Perversion At Iraq Detention Centers
By Greg Szymanski
The Arctic Beacon
January 30, 2006
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3084

Although the U.S. government is in possession of video tapes of boys
being sodomized at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers, the
evidence and public clamor to end the torture and killing has done
little to change the mindset of the Bush administration.

Lawyers for President Bush, including U.S. Attorney Gen. Alberto
Gonzales, have tried to neatly package and justify skirting
international law regarding the illegal detention of prisoners.

But when it comes to torture, sexual perversion and murder while
holding prisoners captive, it would seem obvious there is no legal
justification.

But not according to a team of Bush's crooked lawyers who concluded in
a legal memorandum that President Bush was not bound by either an
international treaty prohibiting torture or by a federal anti-torture
law because he had the authority as commander in chief to approve any
technique needed to protect the nation's security.

Besides this bogus legal finding, the administration has also taken
the untenable position, according to legal observers, the reported
acts of torture and sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib and other detention
centers are only isolated incidents of abuse, not officially military
policy handed down from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

However, critics contend the mounting number of abuse cases and
evidence compiled is more than just coincidence or isolated acts of
aggression, but indicate an official policy handed down from top to
bottom.

Human rights groups, international legal observers and journalists
contend Rumsfeld and top Pentagon brass have personally ordered the
"torture policy," including authorizing the rape of Iraqi children in
prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information
about the so-called anti-American insurgency.

If there were only several cases of abuse, the Bush administration's
point should be considered. But when the cases of abuse are
widespread, then something definitely stinks inside the Pentagon.

Take for example journalist Seymour Hersh's quote to the ACLU in 2004
after calling attention to the numerous torture videotapes kept secret
by the Pentagon.

"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," said Hersh.
"There is a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up
at the highest command out there, and higher."

Next listen to the words of Ed Cone, an observer of the military
abuse, as he summarizes evidence uncovered, indicating widespread
torture and sexual abuse:

"Some of the worse that happened you still don't know about. There are
women there and some of you may have read they were passing letters,
communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib which is 30
miles from Baghdad.

"The women were passing messages saying 'Please come and kill me,
because of what's happened'. Basically what happened is that those
women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have
been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The
worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that
your government has? They are in total terror it's going to come out."

And the next shocking piece of "torture evidence" is a clear example
of just how bad conditions still are at Abu Ghraib and how the abuse
complaints are more than just isolated incidents.

It should be noted American jurists and the U.S. legal system has done
little or nothing to bring Bush and his cronies to justice for obvious
violations of international law, leaving the international community
stunned by this lack of humanitarian concern.

The following are portions of a translation of a sworn statement made
by Abu Ghraib detainee Kasim Mehaddi Hilas, detainee No. 15551108,
revealing just how deep and widespread the torture policies had
become. The Hilas statement was also used against Spc. Charles Grainer
for an August 2004 Article 39a hearing

The details of the Hilas statement have been watered down by the
mainstream media as the acts committed against detainees are far more
perverse than just leading them around on a dog leash, as previously
reported. After listening, it's also hard to believe Spc. Grainer's
acts were a so-called isolated incident, as the Pentagon insists,
since the torture and abuse, according to Hilas, seemed to encompass
every area of the detention center he witnessed.

Here is his statement:

"In the name of God, I swear that everything I witnesses, everything I
witnesses and everything I am talking about is the truth and I am not
saying this to gain any material thing and I was not pressured to do
this by any forces.

"First, I am going to talk about what happened to me at Abu Ghraib
jail. I will not talk about when I was in jail before, but it was very
bad.

"They stripped me of all my clothes, even my underwear. They gave me
women's underwear, that were rose-colored with flowers in it and they
put a bag over my face. One of them whispered in my ear, "today I am
going to f- you.

"When they took me to the cell, the translator, Abu Hamid, came with
an American soldier, his rank was sergeant. And he called me a
"faggot" because I was wearing women's underwear?

"The transfer from Camp B to isolation was full of beatings, but the
bags were over our heads, so we couldn't see their faces. And they
forced me to wear this underwear all the time - for 51 days - and most
days I was wearing nothing else.

"I faced more harsh punishment and had my hands cuffed with irons
behind my back to the metal of the window, to the point where my feet
were off the ground and I was hanging there for about 5 hours?And then
they took off all my clothes and they took the female underwear and
put it over my head. After being released from the window, they tied
me to my bed until dawn - Grainer and the other two soldiers were
taking pictures of everything they did to me. I don't know if they
took a picture of me because they beat me so bad I lost consciousness
after an hour or so. They didn't give us food for a whole day and
night and finally gave us one package of emergency food.

"Now I will talk about what I saw.

"They brought three prisoners completely naked and they tied them
together with cuffs and they stuck one to other. I saw the American
soldiers hitting them with a football and they were taking pictures. I
saw Grainer punching one of the prisoners right in his face very hard
when he refuse to take off his underwear and I heard them begging for
help. And also the American soldiers told them to do like homosexuals
(f-ing). Also female soldiers were taking pictures - And they were
ordering them to crawl while they were cuffed together.

"I saw (name deleted) f-ing a kid, his age would be about 15-18 years
old. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with
sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on
top it wasn't covered and I saw (name deleted), who was wearing the
military uniform putting his penis into the little kid's ass.

"I couldn't see the face of the kid because his face wasn't in front
of the door. And the female soldier was taking pictures?

"In the cell on the north side and I was right across from it on the
other side. They put the sheets again on the doors. Grainer and his
helper cuffed one prisoner in Room No. 1 and he was an Iraqi citizen.
They tied him to the bed and they were inserting the phosphoric light
in his ass and he was yelling for God's help. This one prisoner used
to get punished a lot because I heard him screaming and they
prohibited us from standing near the door when they do that.

"That was Ramadan, around 12 midnight when I saw them doing that to
the prisoner and the female soldier taking pictures. I saw them more
than once standing on the water bucket that was upside down and they
were totally naked. And carrying chairs over their heads standing
under the fan of the hallway behind the wooden partition and also in
the shower."

The translated version of this text was signed by Mr. Johnson,
Translator Category II, Titan Corp. and then assigned to the Prisoner
Interview/Interrogation Team of the 1oth Military Police Battalion of
the 3rd Military Police Group. The authenticity of the text was
verified by Mr. Abdelilah Alazadi, Translator Category II of the Titan
Corp.

Regarding the prosecution of lower level military for torture and
abuse, the ACLU recently criticized the Justice Department's double
standard used for torture and abuse crimes.

Legislative Counsel of the ACLU, Christopher E. Anders, said while
lower ranks of the military are being convicted for crimes, upper
level officers, Pentagon officials and CIA agents working along side
the soldiers are being held to a much lower standard.

"Justice should be blind, but it is now clear that enlisted men and
women in a soldier's uniform are being convicted while CIA agents and
civilian contractors who allegedly participated in the same crimes
remain free," said Anders. "The military has already investigated and
prosecuted many of its rank and file members and yet it seems that the
Justice Department is incapable, or unwilling, to do the same for CIA
agents. CIA agents should not be getting a free pass from the Justice
Department.

"What is particularly troubling is that all but one of twenty
referrals of alleged torture by civilians were sent to the U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Paul McNulty. McNulty's
team has yet to indict any civilians. In its now typical system of
rewarding top torture officials, the White House has nominated McNulty
to be Deputy Attorney General, the number two position at the Justice
Department. If confirmed, McNulty will oversee all law enforcement at
the Justice Department, directly supervising the FBI director, the
head of the Criminal Division and all U.S. Attorneys."

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