Community | December 24, 2011 | 5 comments

'1000s GIs may face trial over torture'

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Thousands of US military forces, who served in the Iraq war, may face prosecution for being involved in torturing Iraqi prisoners, a political analyst tells Press TV's US Desk.


“It's a very deep concern that as many as 10,000 Americans may face prosecution” for involvement in subjecting Iraqi prisoners to torture and ruthless treatment during the US war with Iraq, said Gordon Duff, a senior editor of Veterans Today Journal, in an interview with our channel on Thursday.

In July, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a detailed report on the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees under the administration of former US President George W. Bush.

According to HRW, the tortured prisoners have presented more than sufficient evidence to warrant criminal investigations into the possible complicity of top US officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Director of the CIA George Tenet.

Also in October last year, the whistleblower website Wikileaks released documents, suggesting that the Pentagon had instructed the US-led forces to 'secretly' torture detainees in Iraq, including those in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

In 2003, the US invaded Iraq under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction allegedly stockpiled by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. However, later it was revealed that not only did not the Iraqi regime possess the weapons, but also that the US and British leaders, who had defended the military action, previously knew about their non-existence.

More than one million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation since 2003, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.

A number of US officials in George W. Bush administration suggested during the war that the military effort had partly been launched to change the order in the Middle East and make it more Israel-friendly.




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5 comments // '1000s GIs may face trial over torture'

  • MSII
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      MSII  

    • Oh don't worry this'll get swept under the carpet. Should they really be exempt because as some posting seem to be saying "they just did what they were told"? Isn't that just how the worst atrocities always happen? It's a cliche to say but yes that's what happened in nazi germany, people just did what they were told, went along with it, didn't want to rock-the-boat... Kinda funny, don't all those "patriotic" commercials for the military push that you'll learn "Leadership".

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