[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Americans will examine all Iraqi-run prisons
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Americans will examine all Iraqi-run prisons
By Edward Wong The New York Times
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005
BAGHDAD American investigators will work with an Iraqi commission to
widen the inquiry into prisoner torture and abuse by scrutinizing all Iraqi-run
detention centers across the country, American officials said Thursday.
The announcement reflected the gravity with which the Americans are
approaching reports of torture at a secret police prison in central Baghdad.
But it came in stark contrast to comments made earlier Thursday by the Iraqi
interior minister, Bayan Jabr, who tried to play down the discovery by U.S.
soldiers of torture at the prison. Jabr is a conservative Shiite; virtually all
the prisoners were Sunni Arabs.
''There has been much exaggeration about this issue,'' Jabr said at a
news conference, speaking in an angry, sarcastic tone. ''Nobody was beheaded or
killed.''
Jabr acknowledged that seven of the 169 emaciated, malnourished prisoners
discovered by Americans on Sunday night had been tortured. He said the Iraqi
officers responsible would be punished. But he added that many of the Iraqis
and foreign Arabs being held in the prison were suspected of bombings and
assaults. Jabr also suggested that the furor over the prison was being drummed
up by ''those who support terrorism'' since ''it's natural for them to attack
the Interior Ministry.''
Jabr's defiant stand reflected a growing rift between the two governing
Shiite parties in Iraq. Jabr belongs to the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq, while the prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, is a member
of the Islamic Dawa Party.
Jaafari, under intense pressure from the Americans, has opened a
wide-ranging inquiry into prison torture.
American soldiers with the Third Infantry Division discovered the
prisoners on Sunday night when they raided the two-level building, a former
bomb shelter and major operations center for the interior ministry. The
soldiers returned Monday evening to transfer the prisoners to another detention
center.
A journalist for Voice of America who witnessed that transfer said in an
interview Thursday that at least one-third of the prisoners, all young men, had
bruises or lacerations on their faces or bodies, and that they appeared to be
''extremely emaciated, starved for some time.''
The soldiers counted 166 Sunni Arabs and three Shiite Arabs after asking
each prisoner to identify his sect, said the reporter, Alisha Ryu. The soldiers
also found instruments of torture hidden behind ceiling panels in rooms on the
first floor. One such device was a metal rod with a ball on the end, similar to
a medieval mace.
The discovery of the prisoners has prompted a furious outcry from Sunni
Arab leaders, who have long accused the Shiite-led government of abducting and
torturing or killing Sunnis.
The Americans, still grappling with the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib
prison scandal, have also been forceful in condemning the torture.
Jaafari only announced his investigation after meeting with Ambassador
Zalmay Khalilzad and General George Casey Jr., the senior American commander in
Iraq.
Jim Bullock, a spokesman for the American embassy, told reporters
Thursday afternoon that the Iraqi prime minister's office had agreed to widen
the inquiry to a nationwide level, and that employees of the Justice Department
and FBI would provide technical assistance to the Iraqis.
He also released an embassy statement strongly condemning instances of
torture.
''Detainee abuse is not and will not be tolerated by either the Iraqi
government or the multinational forces in Iraq,'' the embassy said.
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