BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Iraq’s prime minister disclosed Tuesday that more than 170 malnourished Iraqi detainees were found at an Interior Ministry detention center and that some appeared to have been tortured. A Sunni politician accused the Shiite-led government of long ignoring the abuse.
U.S. and Iraqi forces discovered the inmates when they went into the facility suspecting that individuals there may have been mistreated, the Pentagon said.
Coalition forces ‘‘found things that concerned them,’’ Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. He didn’t say when the inmates were found, but U.S. troops took control of the Interior Ministry building Sunday night.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, said Iraqi authorities were investigating what happened and the detainees had been moved to a better location and given medical care.
‘‘I was informed that there were 173 detainees held at an Interior Ministry prison and they appear to be malnourished. There is also some talk that they were subjected to some kind of torture,’’ al-Jaafari told reporters.
Isn’t that kind of the whole point of someone posting this?
We spent hundreds of billions of dollars, 2,000+ American lives and over 10,000+ American casualties to go from Saddam’s torture to someone else’s torture?
Oh, please. I am shocked, shocked to learn that the professionalism of Iraqi police and army does not yet exceed our own even after 2.5 years.
Thinking that there could be pockets of abuse discovered and corrected in response to bombings and beheadings by Iraqi terrorists against the police and army is unimaginable.
How are the Christians in Kosovo doing these days, by the way? They must be fine since they are protected by the UN now.
Oh, please. I am shocked, shocked to learn that the professionalism of Iraqi police and army does not yet exceed our own even after 2.5 years.
Thinking that there could be pockets of abuse discovered and corrected in response to bombings and beheadings by Iraqi terrorists against the police and army is unimaginable.
Just like those couple of soldiers who committed abuses at Abu Ghraib (and other places) were just “bad apples”, right? Absolutely no reason to think that there may be a systemic issue here.