Army Investigation on Abuse, Possible Torture at Jail Near Mosul - from TBO.com

Army Investigation Reported Abuse, Possible Torture at Jail Near Mosul - from TBO.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army investigation found systematic abuse and possible torture of Iraqi prisoners at a base near Mosul just as top military officials became aware of abuse allegations at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, documents released Friday showed.

Records previously released by the Army have detailed abuses at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq as well as at sites in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The documents released Friday were the first to reveal abuses at the jail in Mosul and are among the few to allege torture directly.

An officer found that detainees 'were being systematically and intentionally mistreated' at the holding facility near Mosul in December 1993. The 311th Military Intelligence Battalion of the Army's 101st Airborne Division ran the lockup.

'There is evidence that suggests the 311th MI personnel and/or translators engaged in physical torture of the detainees,' a memo from the investigator said. The January 2004 report said the prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions were violated."