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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: PartyTime who started this subject8/24/2004 8:19:51 PM
From: John Sladek   of 173976
 
Hippocratic Oath AWOL at Military Prisons

by Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK - Secret detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan must be included in U.S. military monitoring of prisoner mistreatment, according to an article in the Lancet medical journal that details collusion between medical staff and abusive interrogators.

While much evidence in the ongoing military investigations has been made public, the article also notes that two earlier U.S. Army probes remain classified, and that thousands of pages of appendices to the initial report on Abu Ghraib prison by U.S. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba are unavailable.

The article, by University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles, alleges that in some cases doctors revived Iraqi detainees who had collapsed – permitting their abuse to continue – faked death certificates and medical records to cover up torture, and failed to provide basic health care.


Full Story: antiwar.com
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