The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war.

Hi everybody,
I waited yesterday for this story to pop up on ATS.
But it doesn't happen...afaik

This is big news in germany and the UK.
Some german news sources wrote up to 5 article on this topic yesterday.


The two main persons involveld in this scandal are Colonel Jim Steele and Colonel James H Coffman.

Colonel Jim Steele is a decorated war hero (Medal of Valor, Silver Star, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, four Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and various other service and campaign medals).

I never saw them apart in the 40 or 50 times I saw them inside the detention centres. They knew everything that was going on there ... the torture, the most horrible kinds of torture.

Coffman reported to Petraeus and described himself in an interview with the US military newspaper Stars and Stripes as Petraeus's "eyes and ears out on the ground" in Iraq.

Many of the victims were so badly tortured, they could not be identified.

Originally posted by grobi77
Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
www.guardian.co.uk

The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war.

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