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Abu Ghraib Torture Company With Deep British Connections Re-Hired For Syria
In December 2014 the Independent
reported that “Hundreds of new cases accusing British soldiers of
abusing – in many cases torturing – Iraqi men, women and children, aged
from 13 to 101, were to be considered by the International Criminal
Court (ICC).”
To add to the dreadful truth that was still emerging ten years after
the first torture claims, an official report into allegations that
British soldiers mistreated and unlawfully killed Iraqis in 2004, it
appeared there was evidence of official British knowledge of the use of
torture to obtain intelligence from suspected insurgents and terrorists.
Back in 2004, the first MoD
investigation came about just at the time as it was announced that the
US military was launching their own investigation into ‘interrogation procedures‘
which included the use and role of private contractors in military
prisons across Iraq after continuing evidence of torture and sexual
abuse at an army-run jail, Abu Ghraib near Baghdad, which could no
longer be ignored.
At the time, British ministers were in full denial that torture was
being used. Geoff Hoon, the then Defence Minister who was embroiled in
various military contractor scandals and sacked in his role by NATO
continued with these denials in 2005 stating that Britain did not use
torture methods to obtain information. A subsequent inquiry found that
Iraqi prisoners (many innocent) were beaten, threatened with mock
execution, stripped and sexually humiliated.
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