Released prisoners complain of torture as fighting rages in Najaf

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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqis alleged torture and humiliation at the hands of US guards after being released from the infamous Abu Ghraib jail, while US-led forces continued to battle militia of rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in his stronghold of Najaf.

Former detainees emerged from the buses Friday to dismiss US claims that the abuse was meted out by a small number of rogue operators at the jail.


One prisoner alleged a male and female soldier had sex in front of him in the complex's hospital wing and another said he saw wires attached to the tongue and genitals of a cousin who was also being held.


As the US administration fought off mounting pressure, including charges that it breached the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners, the violence continued with another US marine killed in the restive western Al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, the US-led coalition said in a statement Friday.

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1. Now we know why the Bush Administration was so adamant about the

US not becoming a member of, and therefore not subject to, the World Court.

It is time for a war crimes trial in the Hague. Mr. Rumsfeld, you first.