Israeli hand in Iraq's Abu Ghraib exposed

[joeblow]

Israeli hand in Iraq's Abu Ghraib exposed
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:25:53 GMT

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File photo of the Abu Ghraib prison when it was under US control

The former American military chief of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq reiterates the Israeli involvement in the US-run facility, where hundreds of Iraqi suspects were tortured and sexually abused by US soldiers and interrogators.

Shedding further light on the scandal that has served as a controversy-magnet for Washington ever since its emergence in 2004, the retired US army colonel Janis Karpinski says that Israeli agents were recruited by the US military at Abu Ghraib to interrogate the prisoners suspected of attacking US forces in Iraq.

The report by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar is set to fuel more debate on the matter as Karpinski had, until recently, refused to expound on the Israeli connection at Abu Ghraib despite admitting earlier to the presence of Israeli interrogators in the US-run compound.

The former high-ranking US military officer in Iraq told the British state broadcaster, the BBC, in 2004 that she had met an Israeli interrogator who was working at a secret facility in Baghdad.

The prominent American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh brought the issue out in the open on May 10, 2004, when he published the article, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," in The New Yorker Magazine. The article served to ignite the outpouring of reports and evidences on the alleged "abuse, torture, sodomy and homicide" conducted at the facility by US military and intelligence officers.

In May of last year, more pictures of such abuses leaked out and hit the media networks showing the indiscriminate sexual orientation of American soldiers and operatives, who were shown carnally violating male and female Iraqis alike and assaulting them with nightsticks, wires and phosphorescent tubes.

Following his explosive account on the Abu Ghraib abuses, Hersh asserted that one of the Israel pursuits in the US-run prison was to gain access to the detained members of the Iraqi secret intelligence unit that specialized in Israeli affairs.

Israel has been widely criticized by international human rights organizations for the torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, during interrogations and in prison cells.

US President Barak Obama has 'strongly' opposed the release of more photos and imagery of the Abu Ghraib abuses by American soldiers, despite promises to the contrary when he was first elected. Obama later argued that releasing the scandalous photos, labeled classified by the Bush Administration, would inflame "the theaters of war," jeopardize US forces, and make the life of troops based in Iraq and Afghanistan "more difficult."

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[Father Brown]

E. Michael Jones just wrote a lengthy piece on this subject in the current issue of Culture Wars. Sorry, but it is not available for free on line last time I checked. The general jist of the piece was that the Israelis were behind the sexual abuse and they perfected this technique in breaking down Muslims. There was one incident recalled where a female interogator asked how she could break down a detainee's strength through his prayer to God. The trick was to touch him and for her to say she did something that made her unclean. Then he felt he could no longer pray to God because he himself was unclean. I'm sorry I can't recall the specifics, but it was very underhanded.

There are many more pictures that were never realeased. And one idea behind the photos, so the Israelis said, was to use it as blackmail against these detainees and to free them so they could work as spies. However, it was also eluded to that most likely the Israelis wanted the photos taken so they would be released to embarass the US and get Islam more irate with the US and Christians to help foment a Holy War. It was a classic Israeli double-cross and the US got caught with their pants down. Pun intended.