baltimoresun.com - Iraq Abuse claims multiplying

baltimoresun.com - Abuse claims multiplying:

"The files included probes into at least seven deaths.
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Records of Army's investigations show many cases like Abu Ghraib over 2 years; Soldiers in Iraq seldom charged or punished; Documents contradict military assertion that mistreatment of detainees is rare.
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Other abuse allegations included:

# A 73-year-old Iraqi woman told Army investigators she was subjected to sexual abuses...

# An October 2003 investigation found the soldiers who routinely stole money from detainees at a downtown Baghdad facility - what they called a 'Robin Hood Tax' that went to buy sodas, ice and liquor - also were accused of beating hooded and handcuffed prisoners. One soldier reported seeing two others hold a detainee while a third 'boot stomped' him in the gut, and also seeing a second detainee held against the wall while a soldier hit him in the stomach with a 'chunk of wood.'

When he reported the treatment, the soldier said he was told by a staff sergeant: 'After you been at the hard site awhile you'll be doing it too.' Two soldiers were found guilty at courts-martial...

# After a soldier's wife last summer turned over to investigators a photo showing him pointing a gun at the head of a bound and hooded detainee, the soldier claimed he was acting at the direction of CIA and special forces operatives...

# A detainee held by members of a Navy SEAL team at a facility in Mosul, Iraq, said he was stripped, subjected to loud music, doused with cold water and threatened that if he did not confess, 'they would bring my wife and my mother and that they would rape them.'... MORE