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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: American Spirit who wrote (12301)5/8/2004 12:16:45 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Rummy knew about the torture last year, is only apologizing because he's been caught. Impeach this coward!!!
boston.com
Rights groups say mistreatment was reported last year
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 8, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Human rights groups say they told top American officials in Iraq as early as last May that Iraqi prisoners in US custody were being abused, and warned in October about sexually humiliating practices at Abu Ghraib prison -- about half a year before the discovery of graphic photos led to the current scandal.

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Warnings about abuse of Iraqi prisoners also were made in an internal US military audit of conditions at the prison conducted last autumn, in addition to the warnings by international rights groups, including Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC.

In June, for example, Amnesty gave the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad a memorandum detailing allegations of prisoner abuse, including at Abu Ghraib, and asked for an independent investigation, said Nicole Choueiry, the Middle East spokeswoman for Amnesty International in London.

''They knew about it for a long time," Choueiry said.

One of the most damaging complaints came in a confidential report by the ICRC, disclosed yesterday by The Wall Street Journal. The report said the ICRC began briefing US officials in Iraq about their concerns of prisoner mistreatment last May after the invasion phase of the war.
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