U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq (10/24/2005)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CIA, Navy Seals and Military Intelligence Personnel Implicated
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today made public an analysis of new and previously released autopsy and death reports of detainees held in U.S. facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom died while being interrogated. The documents show that detainees were hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, subjected to sleep deprivation and to hot and cold environmental conditions.
“”There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths,”" said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. “”High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable. America must stop putting its head in the sand and deal with the torture scandal that has rocked our military.”"
The documents released today include 44 autopsies and death reports as well as a summary of autopsy reports of individuals apprehended in Iraq and Afghanistan. The documents show that detainees died during or after interrogations by Navy Seals, Military Intelligence and “”OGA”" (Other Governmental Agency) — a term, according to the ACLU, that is commonly used to refer to the CIA.
According to the documents, 21 of the 44 deaths were homicides. Eight of the homicides appear to have resulted from abusive techniques used on detainees, in some instances, by the CIA, Navy Seals and Military Intelligence personnel. The autopsy reports list deaths by “”strangulation,”" “”asphyxiation”" and “”blunt force injuries.”" An overwhelming majority of the so-called “”natural deaths”" were attributed to “”Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.”"
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11 comments ↓
My opinion? So what……….
My opinion. Only morons and enemy propagandists post discredited stories from two years ago. Which are you?
You again? Didn’t you just post this crap in another question.
Until I hear the outrage from you about what the terrorists are doing to our soldiers and to innocent Iraqi’s…I could care less about your spew on how the ENEMY is being treated.
One report said Gitmo has better food and care than any of our US prisons.
THIS IS STALE NEWS FROM A HATE AMERICA GROUP. AS FOR ME I COULDN’T CARE LESS IF EVERYONE OF THEM DIED.
What really gets me is how some of the other posters here automatically assume that the detainees were actually responsible for terrorist activities. If I’m not mistaken, they were suspects and some of them hadn’t been proven guilty.
I bet the government’s defense would be that they died of natural causes after being hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, subjected to sleep deprivation and to hot and cold environmental conditions.
And most people would believe this to justify the means.
So. They should be lucky we didn’t shoot them before they got into custody.
(This is a copy and paste of my answer the last time you asked this question about 5 minutes ago. Thanks for the 2 points)
is that all I was hoping for a higher # than that. After all how “badly” we treat them. By the way how many of the 44 offed themselves I think a little more info would be needed.
isn’t that great?
I thought we weren’t the bad guys. we used to not be
-not all detanees are guilty. look how many we released because they were picked up by msitake. you don’t have to be good at math to know that if you grab over 100 people a few will be innocent
You forgot the comfy chair. How many died in the comfy chair?
Actually I bet their survival rate was a lot better on the inside than the outside.
We should prosecute the whole bunch of them – from the President down to the guy swinging the blunt object.
This is outrageous.
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