Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
What's this? A description of atrocities performed by Saddam Hussein? No. It's a description of atrocities performed by U.S. troops, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and quoted in an article in The New Yorker today.
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