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(回答先: イラクの誤った国旗に、誤った地図、誤った議会 写真付き 他，記事多数 ［アラブの声ＭＬ］ 投稿者 white 日時 2005 年 3 月 31 日 14:06:53)
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アメリカ軍によるイラク人収監者への虐待が新たに発覚 [IRIBラジオ日本語ニュース]
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投稿者 white 日時 2005 年 3 月 26 日 23:25:59
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The top US general in Iraq authorised interrogation techniques including the use of dogs, stress positions and disorientation, a memo has shown.
The document was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through the US Freedom of Information Act.
The September 2003 document is signed by the then commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen Ricardo Sanchez.
The ACLU says the measures go beyond generally accepted practice and says Gen Sanchez should be made accountable.
The memo authorised techniques including putting prisoners in stressful positions, using loud music and light control, and changing sleeping patterns.
It also authorised the presence of muzzled military working dogs to, as the memo puts it, "exploit Arab fear of dogs while maintaining security during interrogations".
The presence of dogs and other measures, all of which required approval by Gen Sanchez, were rescinded a month later because of opposition from military lawyers.
Gen Sanchez says advance permission was required every time one of these techniques was requested, adding that he never gave such permission.
'Beyond army limits'
The Pentagon originally refused to release the memo on national security grounds, but passed it to the ACLU on Friday after the union challenged it in court under the Freedom of Information Act.
The ACLU says at least 12 of the 29 techniques listed in the document went far beyond limits established by the army's field manual.
"Gen Sanchez authorised interrogation techniques that were in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and the army's own standards," ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh said in the union's statement.
"He and other high ranking officials who bear responsibility for the widespread abuse of detainees must be held accountable."
The techniques included "environmental manipulation" such as making a room hot or cold or using an "unpleasant smell", isolating a prisoner, and disrupting normal sleep patterns.
The memo also allowed the "false flag" technique of "convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other than the United States are interrogating him."
It was during Gen Sanchez's time as commander that Iraqi prisoners were abused by US troops at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
The cases - highlighted in photographs of hooded and naked inmates - sparked international outrage.
Army investigations have generally found that, where proven, abuses were not the result of policy set by senior leaders.
The ACLU is currently taking part in a lawsuit against Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accusing him of responsibility for torture and abuse of detainees in US military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
27 March 2005
Damning evidence of American soldiers abusing detainees at another prison in Iraq was made public yesterday. It details how prisoners were "systematically and intentionally mistreated" at a military base in Mosul, culminating in the death of one. Nobody was court-martialled over the abuse.
An investigation by a US officer after a prisoner's jaw was broken found that inmates were hit with water bottles, made to do exhausting physical exercises until they collapsed, deprived of sleep, subjected to deafening heavy metal music and had cigarette smoke blown into sandbags they were forced to wear as hoods. One soldier said troops "always harassed the hell out of detainees"; another said that at times "the detainees would get so scared they would piss themselves".
In December 2003 a prisoner died after four days of continuous punishment. According to the documents, which were obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, mistreatmentwas not confined to Abu Ghraib jail, where abuse and sexual humiliation of inmates caused worldwide outrage last year.
The facility at Mosul was run by the 311th Military Intelligence Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division. In a memo, the investigating officer said: "There is evidence that suggests the 311th MI personnel ... engaged in physical torture." His report in January 2004 said prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions had been violated.
The investigation was triggered by the case of Salah Salih Jassim, 20, who had his jaw broken in detention. He was not a suspect but had been arrested along with his father, an officer in Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia. Mr Jassim was held in a room with 70 other prisoners. Deafening heavy metal music was played and guards sounded bullhorns beside their heads. Mr Jassim said: "All night they were throwing water on us and making us stand and squat. From the night to the next day ... they were beating us."
The report said: "The detainees had sandbags over their heads that were marked with different crimes, leading the guards to believe that the particular detainee committed that particular crime." The bag on Jassim's head was marked "IED" - the acronym for the roadside bombs that have killed and maimed hundreds of troops. Soldiers in the room when Mr Jassim's jaw was broken all said they did not see the incident and the investigation was unable to determine which guards were at fault. None was punished.
The newly released records also had details of other abuse investigations.And last week, the US reopened an inquiry into how an Iraqi government scientist died while in detention. Mohammad Munim al-Izmerly, 65 when he died on 31 January 2004, is the only known weapons scientist to have died in US custody.The family commissioned an Iraqi post mortem, which found he died of a blow to the head.
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