US troops face new torture claims (UK Guardian)

[huckleberry]

Richard Norton-Taylor
Tuesday September 14, 2004
The Guardian

Allegations that American soldiers routinely tortured and maltreated detainees have emerged from a third Iraqi city, renewing fears that abuse similar to that inflicted in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad has been systematic and widespread.

American soldiers in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul beat and stripped detainees, threatened sexual abuse and forced them to listen to loud western music, according to statements seen by the Guardian.

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Yasir Rubaii Saeed al-Qutaji describes how loud western music was played and cold water poured over his body; he said he was also threatened with sexual abuse.

"For the next 15 hours they tried to break me down by taking me frequently inside and repeating the stripping, cold water and loud music sequence," he says.


more at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1304042,00.html

[whirlygigspin]

1. Slim Whitman torture techinique?

forced to listen to western music!!!

"When i'm callin' you...uuuuuuu uuuuuuuu"

classic

[lapfog_1]

3. They have been using that for decades

Tried it out publicly on old "Pineapple Head", though it didn't
show a great deal of success.

[JSJ]

2. 30% of troops have pre-service criminal records- la times, july '04

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=824941