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Iraqi woman raped and photographed by U.S. occupiers confirmed by
Mexican-American soldier Los Angeles, Alta California - May 2, 2004 - (ACN) The release, by
CBS News, of the photographs showing the heinous sexual abuse and torture of
Iraqi POW's at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison has opened a Pandora's box
for the Bush regime. Apparently, the suspended US commander of the prison
where the worst abuses took place, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has
refused to take the fall by herself and has implicated the CIA, Military
Intelligence and private US government contractors in the torturing of POW's
and in the raping of Iraqi women detainees as well.
Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said to the Washington Post that Military
Intelligence, rather than the Military Police, dictated the treatment of
prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. "The prison, and that particular cellblock
where the events took place, were under the control of the Military
Intelligence command," Brigadier General Karpinski said to the Washington
Post Saturday night in a telephone interview from her home in Hilton Head,
South Carolina.
Brigadier General Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police
Brigade, described a high-pressure Military Intelligence and CIA command
that prized successful interrogations. A month before the alleged abuses and
rapes occurred, she said, a team of CIA, Military Intelligence officers and
private consultants under the employ of the US government came to Abu
Ghraib. "Their main and specific mission was to give the interrogators new
techniques to get more information from detainees," she said.
Today, new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential
sources depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by what are
purported to be US Military Intelligence personnel and private US
mercenaries in military fatigues. It is now known that hundreds of these
photographs had been in circulation among the troops in Iraq. The graphic
photos were being swapped between the soldiers like baseball cards.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one
Mexican-American soldier told La Voz de Aztlan, "Maybe the officers didn't
know what was going on, but everybody else did. I have seen literally
hundreds of these types of pictures." Many of the pictures were destroyed
last September when the luggage of soldiers was searched as they left Iraq,
he said
An investigation, led by Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba, identified
two military intelligence officers and two civilian contractors for the Army
as key figures in the abuse cases at the Abu Ghraib prison. In an internal
report on his findings, Major General Taguba said he suspected that the four
were "either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib
and strongly recommended disciplinary action."
The Taguba report states that "military intelligence interrogators and other
U.S. Government Agency interrogators actively requested that Military Police
guards set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of
witnesses." The report noted that one civilian interrogator, a contractor
from a company called CACI International and attached to the 205th Military
Intelligence Brigade, "clearly knew his instructions" to the Military Police
equated to physical and sexual abuse. It is not known whether these
instructions included, or led to, the raping of Iraqi women detainees as
well.
NOTE: U.S. labels these armed contractors raping and
murdering as civilians. These terrorists from the terrorist country U.S. are
armed and killing, murdering, raping, robbing the Iraqi's are the so-called
innocent U.S. civilians who when killed by the resistance are portrays in
the media as saints killed by "brutal terrorists". Another thing
is that the pictures are disqualified by the pro-U.S. media as being fake,
but this story clearly proves the contrary.
Source: La Voz de Aztlan
- May 4 2004 |
