............Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his
American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation
tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green
sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid
him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.
It was inside the sleeping
bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs,
lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western
Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi
paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had
beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose,
according to classified documents.......
..........The circumstances that led up to Mowhoush's death paint a vivid
example of how the pressure to produce intelligence for anti-terrorism efforts
and the war in Iraq led U.S. military interrogators to improvise and develop
abusive measures, not just at Abu Ghraib but in detention centers elsewhere in
Iraq, in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mowhoush's ordeal in Qaim,
over 16 days in November 2003, also reflects U.S. government secrecy surrounding
some abuse cases and gives a glimpse into a covert CIA unit that was set up to
foment rebellion before the war and took part in some interrogations during the
insurgency......
and we cry foul when ours are taken as prisoners of war and treated in ways such as this. i left a comment on another blog today (my favorite one, skippy the bush kangaroo using the words of the great pete seeger; when will they ever learn? when will they ever learn?
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