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العراقية. <br/>وقالت النزاهة في بيان لها ان اللجان الفرعية الخاصة بمتابعة أحوال موقوفي الهيئة في مكاتب التحقيقات في بغداد والمحافظات قامت بزيارة أماكن توقيف المتهمين للاطلاع على أحوالهم والمشاكل التي تواجههم وإعلامهم بالمراحل التي وصلت إليها الإجراءات التحقيقية في قضاياهم. <br/>واوضح البيان ان اللجنة لاحظت أن هناك عددا من الموقوفين في مراكز الاحتجاز في بغداد لم يتم تسفيرهم الى دائرة الإصلاح المختصة بالرغم من إدانتهم من قبل المحكمة ،مؤكدا ان بعض المتهمين في مركز الموقف والتسفيرات في محافظة النجف تعرضوا الى التعذيب الجسدي والنفسي ،مبينا ان اللجنة أشرت ضيق مكان الموقف بشكل لا يتناسب مع أعداد المودعين فيه في مركزي الشرطة في كل من البصرة وبابل.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12330"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/08/torture-of-prisoners-common-in-irak/#respond" title="Comment on Torture Of Prisoners Common In Irak">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoners-in-iraq/" rel="tag">prisoners in iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisons/" rel="tag">prisons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-forces/" rel="tag">security forces</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture/" rel="tag">Torture</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Suspected Sunni Islamist insurgents and Shi’ite militiamen are routinely tortured or abused by Iraqi security forces to extract confessions early in their detention and interrogation, Iraqi military officials say.</p> <p>Six Iraqi security officials, including two high-ranking officers, as well as former detainees and lawyers, told Reuters that prisoners are beaten, stomped on or strung up by their hands during arrest and preliminary interrogations.</p> <p>Suspects are beaten and trampled when they resist arrest and are sometimes tortured when they provoke interrogators by showing "enjoyment" or "pride," a senior military official familiar with military jails in Baghdad told Reuters.</p> <p>"Some suspects delight in the narrative details of how they murdered their victims. In response, some investigators slap them or kick them or order them hung up (by the arms)," he said, asking for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.</p> <p>Iraq’s Supreme Judiciary Council received more than 400 complaints last year from detainees or their families, accusing Iraqi military interrogators of torture or abuse. In only 90 cases did a court take up the allegations and launch a probe.</p> <p>Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry, responding to the information obtained by Reuters, said inspection teams still record abuse cases during prison visits but the number is falling.</p> <p>"Cases of violations and irregularities … are not a phenomenon … not systemic, but a very limited number of individual cases," ministry spokesman Kamil Amine said.</p> <p>Torture was widespread under the late dictator Saddam Hussein, ousted in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Disclosures in 2004 that U.S. jailers had abused and sexually humiliated Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison outraged many Iraqis and may have fueled the insurgency.</p> <p>Iraq’s elected authorities last year promised to crack down on continuing abuse of prisoners in Iraq, where human rights groups have warned torture of detainees by security forces has been systematic as they fight a waning insurgency.</p> <p>Terrorism suspects often are held at the Camp Cropper prison near Baghdad airport, or Camp Honor, inside the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone.</p> <p>U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a February 1 report that security forces torture inmates at Camp Honor, citing interviews with former detainees.</p> <p>In a new report on prisoner abuse in Iraq issued Tuesday, Amnesty International said urgent action was needed to end a "pattern of abuse" in Iraqi detention centers.</p> <h3>THE FOURTH AREA</h3> <p>Many preliminary terrorism interrogations take place at Camp Cropper, a former U.S. detention center turned over to the Iraqis last year and renamed Camp al-Karkh, in a little-known place called the "Fourth Area," Iraqi security officials said.</p> <p>"It is a place for the detention of prisoners in accordance with article 4 of the terrorism (law), so it is named after that," a senior officer from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Squad said. "The interrogations in this area are brutal, more brutal than the interrogations in Camp Honor."</p> <p>Cropper was the last U.S. prison in Iraq and its handover ended a difficult chapter of the U.S. invasion in which thousands of people were held without charge.</p> <p>In the most common methods of abuse, suspects are kicked, beaten with pieces of electric cable, hung by the arms, or burned with cigarettes, and hot metal or given electrical shocks, security officials and lawyers said.</p> <p>"Some detainees have died as a result of torture. The last death occurred four or five months ago in this place (Cropper) as a result of severe beatings that led to kidney malfunction," the officer from the Counter-Terrorism Squad said.</p> <p>Lawyers say proving torture in court can be difficult.</p> <p>"Some of those conducting the interrogations are artists in the field of torture, and hide the evidence and facts from the judges," said a lawyer who declined to be named.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/08/us-iraq-torture-idUSTRE7172WZ20110208?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20reuters/worldNews%20%28News%20/%20US%20/%20International%29" class="external" target="_blank">Torture common for Iraq prisoners: security sources | Reuters</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11690"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/25/the-latest-blatant-flagrant-lie-us-tried-to-stop-prisoner-abuse-general-george-casey/#respond" title="Comment on The Latest Blatant Flagrant Lie: "US tried to stop prisoner abuse": General George Casey">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 25th, 2010 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/25/the-latest-blatant-flagrant-lie-us-tried-to-stop-prisoner-abuse-general-george-casey/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Latest Blatant Flagrant Lie: "US tried to stop prisoner abuse": General George Casey">The Latest Blatant Flagrant Lie: "US tried to stop prisoner abuse": General George Casey</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-war-criminals-george-casey/" rel="tag">American War Criminals (George Casey)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights/" rel="tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoner-abuse/" rel="tag">prisoner abuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoners/" rel="tag">prisoners</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoners-torture-of/" rel="tag">prisoners - torture of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisons/" rel="tag">prisons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/rape/" rel="tag">Rape</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture/" rel="tag">Torture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture-of-children/" rel="tag">Torture of children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/use-of-electricity-as-torture-method/" rel="tag">Use of Electricity as torture method</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-deprivation-torture/" rel="tag">water deprivation torture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wikileaks/" rel="tag">Wikileaks</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Even by the low low standards of the man dubbed "General Death Squad" <a title="this" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gkW6_t8VIZoYuHIMwSBfvAcSkBpQ?docId=CNG.8eb164acb55bc47a5c3893996df3c39d.2f1" class="external" target="_blank">this</a> is simply revolting:</p> <blockquote><p>General George Casey, the Army chief of staff who earlier headed forces in Iraq for nearly three years, said there was "some suggestion in the press reports that we turned a blind eye on Iraqi prisoner abuse.</p> <p>"That’s just not the case. Our policy all along was when American soldiers encountered prisoner abuse, it was to stop it and then report it immediately up the American chain of command and up the Iraqi chain of command," he told reporters.</p> <p>The trove of classified US military documents provide graphic accounts of abuse of prisoners inside Iraqi prisons. Human rights group have urged the United States to reveal how much it knew and whether it transferred inmates to Iraqi custody despite the risk of torture.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Read the rest if you can stomach it here;</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gkW6_t8VIZoYuHIMwSBfvAcSkBpQ?docId=CNG.8eb164acb55bc47a5c3893996df3c39d.2f1" class="external" target="_blank">AFP: US tried to stop prisoner abuse: Army general</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11228"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/03/%d9%88%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%84-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b3%d8%ac%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%b5%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a8%d8%ba/#respond" title="Comment on وفاة معتقل في سجن تسفيرات الرصافة في بغداد">No 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><font color="#800000"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><strong>العراق البلد الاول في عدد المهجرين مقارنة ببلدان الشرق الاوسط</strong> </p> <p>قال ممثل المفوضية السامية للامم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين في بغداد دانييل اندرس الاحد ، ان العراق يعد من البلدان التي تضم اكبر عدد من المهجرين في الشرق الاوسط منهم مليون و500 الف نازح داخلياً. <br/>وبين دانييل في حديث نقلته صحيفة الصباح الاحد، ان المفوضية بالاتفاق مع الحكومة قدمت مساعدات طارئة الى نحو نصف عدد هذه التجمعا ، فضلاً عن مساعدتهم في اعادة تاهيل المساكن التي يمتلكونها، منوهاً بان المفوضية ساعدت العام الماضي نحو 350 الف نازح في عموم البلاد، مؤكداً احتياج هذه الفئة الى برنامج كبير جدا لمساعدتهم على ايجاد حلول وتخصيص اراض او دور مناسبة لهم . <br/>وبين اندرس ، ان نحو نصف مليون شخص من هؤلاء النازحين عادوا الى دورهم الاصلية خلال العامين الماضيين الا ان معظمهم وجدوا مساكنهم مدمرة ومحرومة من الخدمات.</p> <h3>(طبهم مرض) هكذا قال المالكي عندما اخبروه ان اكثر من 7 سجناء ماتوا خنقا اثناء نقلهم </h3> <p>اكد مصدر اعلامي قريب من المالكي ان السجناء العراقيين الذين ماتوا او اصيبوا نتيجة نقلهم الى سجنا اخر احيل موضوعهم الى لجنة تحقيقية لتبيان اسباب الوفاة مشيرا الى ان المالكي قال عندما اخبر بوفاة السجناء (طبهم مرض) ….. </p> <p>وكان مصدر مطلع كشف أن تسعة سجناء عراقيين توفوا اختناقا وأصيب 15 آخرون بحالات ضيق نفس شديدة وإعياء أثناء نقلهم من سجن إلى آخر <br/>وقال  إن تسعة سجناء توفوا ظهر يوم الأربعاء المصادف 12 أيار الجاري من جراء نقص الهواء في عربتين مخصصين لنقل السجناء كانتا تقلان سجناء من سجن التاجي في شمال بغداد إلى سجن تابع لتسفيرات الرصافة في بغداد. <br/>وأوضح  أن 120 سجينا حشروا في عربيتين لنقل السجناء مصنوعتين من المعدن وليس فيهما أي منفذ لدخول الهواء   مبينا أن العربة الواحدة مخصصة لنقل 15 سجينا على الأكثر وقد حشر فيها نحو 60 سجينا. <br/>واشار إلى أن القوة التي كانت تنقل السجناء تابعة لاجهزة المالكي وبعد وصولها إلى سجن التسفيرا اكتشفت عند فتحها العربتين وجود 22 سجينا وقد غابوا عن الوعي وظهرت عليهم علامات اختناق، مضيفا أن القوة قامت بنقلهم إلى عدد من المستشفيات لتلقي العلاج منها مستشفى الجملة العصبية في منطقة باب الشرقي وسط بغداد الذي توفي فيه تسعة من هؤلاء بعيد وصولهم إليه. <br/>واضاف أن السجناء الخمسة عشر الآخرين أصيبوا برضوض بسبب التدافع الذي حصل داخل العربتين بسبب نقص الهواء وحالات ضيق نفس وإعياء شديدة إلا ان حالتهم الصحية باتت مستقرة</p> <p>وكانت قضية الانتهاكات لحقوق السجناء في العراق قد عادة للظهور بقوة بعدما كشفت صحيفة لوس أنجلس تايمز في 19 أبريل/ نيسان عن انتهاكات بحق سجناء عراقيين في سجن المثنى السري إذ ذكرت أن السجن كان يضم أكثر من 430 سجيناً قبل نقلهم إلى مراكز احتجاز أخرى في وقت مبكر من نيسان ولم يكن أحد يعرف بأماكنهم، وعلى مدار شهور، ولم يكن متاحاً لهم الاتصال بأسرهم أو محاميهم، كما لم تصدر بحقهم وثائق رسمية أو حتى أرقام احتجاز أو أرقام قضايا، فيما كان قاضي تحقيق ينظر في القضايا من حجرة قريبة من إحدى حجرات التعذيب في مركز الاحتجاز، بحسب أقوال المعتقلين. <br/>وعلق المالكي بأنه لم يكن على علم بالانتهاكات التي تمارس في السجن السري في مطار المثنى القديم، غرب العاصمة العراقية بغداد، الذي تديره قوات تابعة لقادته الأمنيين مباشرة، وعزا نقل السجناء إلى بغداد إلى "مخاوف متعلقة بالفساد الذي تشهده مدينة الموصل"، مؤكداً أنه "ستتم محاسبة كل من تثبت إدانته بالقيام بأعمال التعذيب ضد السجناء"..</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية </font></span></strong></p> <p><strong>جانب من الأحداث الأمنية والعمليات العسكرية حتى مساء اليوم الاحد</strong></p> <p>شهدت بغداد وبعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم الاحد أحداثا أمنية عديدة راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى، كما شهدت عدة عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات الأمنية العراقية مستهدفة أوكار الإرهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة من البلاد . </p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af-16-%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%88-2010/#more-10551" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9973"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/92-per-cent-of-iraqi-detainees-suffer-psychological-illness-survey/#respond" title="Comment on 92 per cent of Iraqi detainees suffer psychological illness: survey">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Ra'ed Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/92-per-cent-of-iraqi-detainees-suffer-psychological-illness-survey/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 92 per cent of Iraqi detainees suffer psychological illness: survey">92 per cent of Iraqi detainees suffer 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoners-families/" rel="tag">Prisoners' families</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisons/" rel="tag">prisons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/psychological-illness/" rel="tag">psychological illness</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture/" rel="tag">Torture</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>Baghdad – Some 92 per cent of Iraqi former detainees suffer from psychological illness, a study released Thursday found.</p> <p>The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Mosul, also painted a grim picture of the effects detentions have on families and former prisoners in the troubled northern city and its environs.</p> <p>Researcher Mohammed Mahmoud said that in 82 per cent of cases, children of detainees’ performance at school suffered because they attended classes irregularly and lacked supervision of their studies at home.</p> <p>In 56 per cent of families where a member was detained, the family lost its main breadwinner. In 44 per cent of such families, children were forced to care for their siblings or adult relatives, the study concluded.</p> <p>The study found that more than 9 out of 10 former detainees suffered from psychological disorders.</p> <p>The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq said in its most recent report on human rights that it had received widespread complaints of abuse in Iraqi jails.</p> <p>The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch in February concluded that ‘torture and ill-treatment remain a serious problem in Iraqi detention facilities and jails.’</p> <p>Further, ‘government-run detention facilities struggle to accommodate the large number of detainees, and serious delays in the judicial review of detention has exacerbated overcrowding. Some detainees have spent years in custody without charge or trial,’ Human Rights Watch concluded.</p> <p>Most media attention on detentions in Mosul has focused on the hundreds of suspected insurgents police there say they have detained in the last year.</p> <p>Mahmoud called on police to stop arresting citizens without warrants in night raids, and to compensate former detainees never found guilty of a crime.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1550116.php/92-per-cent-of-Iraqi-detainees-suffer-psychological-illness-survey" class="external" target="_blank">92 per cent of Iraqi detainees suffer psychological illness: survey – Monsters and Critics</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9975"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b8%d9%87%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%86-92-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on دراسة اكاديمية تظهر أن 92 % من المعتقلين او ذويهم أصيبوا بأمراض نفسية">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Ra'ed Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b8%d9%87%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%86-92-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to دراسة اكاديمية تظهر أن 92 % من المعتقلين او ذويهم أصيبوا بأمراض نفسية">دراسة اكاديمية تظهر أن 92 % من المعتقلين او ذويهم أصيبوا بأمراض نفسية</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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ذويهم فقدوا معيلهم في حين 44 % منهم أوكلت مهمة رعايتهم لإخوتهم الكبار أو لأحد أقاربهم . <br/>واوضح الباحث لصحيفة الصباح ، ان الخلاف الشخصي والكراهية والحسد أسباب لنشوء الدعاوى الكيدية ، اذ دخل المعتقلات جراءها نحو 59 % من مجموع المعتقلين في المحافظة ، مناشدا الحكومة المركزية لتفعيل قرار حظر مداهمة الدور ليلا وعدم القبض على مواطنين دون اذن قضائي وتعويض المعتقلين الأبرياء ومحاسبة مثيري الفتن من خلال الدعاوي الكيدية .</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9933"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/20/20-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 20-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/20/20-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link 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per one million inhabitants.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/April/international_April1135.xml&section=international&col=">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">The Day In Quotes:</font></h3> <ol> <li><strong>Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa deputy director on the "secret jail" being run by Nouri al-Maliki’s office: </p> <p></strong>"The existence of secret jails indicates that military units in Iraq are allowed to commit human rights abuses unchecked,". </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/04/2010420163646513430.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source:</strong></a> </li> <li><strong>Kamil Amin, spokesman for Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry on the "secret jail" being run by Nouri al-Maliki’s office. <br/></strong> <br/>"We found judges and representatives of the public prosecutor installed inside the prison, which means the prison is not a secret one" <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/04/2010420163646513430.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Same source as quote No: 1 above</strong></a> </li> <li><strong>Iyad Allawi on the ruling that Baghdad’s ballots should be recounted: <br/></strong> <br/>"The List does not object the judicial authority’s ruling to recount ballots in Baghdad although it does not serve interest of the Iraqi people," <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2077272&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Charles Tripp on on Iraq’s political future to David Tresilian: <p></strong>"Quite a few of the Iraqis who will come to power are people who are deeply mindful of the role America has played in getting them into power, so the question is will they be able to establish themselves as something other than American puppets, especially if they are competing with others who are saying that they weren’t the ones who were parachuted in on the back of an American invasion." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/994/sc15.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a><strong>:</strong> </li> </ol> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"></a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"></a></p> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Iraqi secular leader says votes recount must be under strict international monitoring | Xinhua </strong></p> <blockquote><p>"We respect the latest measures (of appeals panel for manual recount for votes in Baghdad), which must be under international strict monitoring," Allawi told news conference. </p> <p>However, Allawi warned that such recount should include areas that his bloc submitted complaints about alleged manipulation other than Baghdad, otherwise, his bloc would take decisions which he refused to name. </p> <p>"If such measures (manual recount) would not cover other areas that we have submitted complaints, the Iraqia bloc would take a decision which I don’t want to disclose now," Allawi said. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/21/c_13260198.htm"><strong>Read in full</strong></a> </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Vote recount double-bladed sword for Iraq to end political deadlock: by Li Laifang, Jamal Ahmed : Xinhua</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, April 19 (Xinhua) — An Iraqi appeals court in charge of reviewing alleged electoral frauds ordered a manual recount of votes in Baghdad on Monday, raising possibilities of a change in the initial results of the country’s pivotal national poll last month and a delay of government formation. </p> <p>Iraq’s electoral authorities did not specify the scale of recount in the capital, a key province with the largest share of 70 seats in the new 325-member parliament. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>In response to fraud allegations, a recount is one of the steps needed to end the political deadlock, as all blocs should accept the final results approved by the country’s Supreme Court. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>A recount may change the seat ranking of the two leading blocs with just a gap of two seats. And any change in seat numbers is likely to bring about more subsequent political rows. </p> <p>Thus the bitter fight between Maliki and Allawi will not end soon, as long as both are eyeing the prime minister post and the right to form a coalition government. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>It may take months for Iraq to have a new government. Allawi has warned that Iraq will see chaos if there is no new government when the U.S. troops in the country are cut down to around 50,000 by the end of August.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/20/c_13258694.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong></strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>كونا : Iraq launches operation " Leap of the Lion " to hunt down  Al-Qaeda – Military and Security – 20/04/2010 -الدفاع والأمن</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Operation "Leap of the Lion" still in motion and will continue to hunt down Al-Qaeda elements in Iraq, said the Iraqi government on Tuesday. </p> <p>Major General Qassem Atta told KUNA that the campaign aimed at dismantling Al-Qaeda operations, saying that such operations, which began in March 11, succeeded in the arrest of several Al-Qaeda leaders. </p> <p>In accordance to intelligence information and USF-I backup, the operations lead to the capture and death of several Qaeda operatives such as Abu Suhaib, leader of Al-Qaeda in northern Iraq. </p> <p>The slain terrorist known as Ahmad Al-Obaidi was in charge terrorist operations in Kirkuk, Nineveh, and Salahuddin governorates, but the Iraqi forces managed to end his reign of terror, said Attah. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2077301&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Source:</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2077113&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>كونا : Qaeda leader for northern Baghdad operations killed – الدفاع والأمن – 20/04/2010</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The leader of Al-Qaeda terrorist group for operations in areas north of Baghdad Ahmad Al-Obaidi, known as Abu Suhaib, was killed by US forces, a leading Iraqi military commander told KUNA Tuesday. </p> <p>The source said the militant was killed in an operation separate from the one which led to the killing of Abu Ayoub Al-Masri and Abu Umar Al-Baghdadi, but would not give more details. </p> <p>The militant was the group’s official responsible for Ninawa, Kirkuk, and Salahiddeen regions. </p> <p>The official added the son of Al-Baghdadi and the assistant of Al-Masri was killed in the same operation in which the two leaders were killed. Another 16 aides and militants were also arrested, the source said</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2077113&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Children of Anti-Qaeda Militia Chief Beheaded in Iraq Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English): </strong></p> <blockquote><p>TARMIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Five family members of a local chief of an anti-Qaeda militia were gunned down in their homes in Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, with the children also beheaded, police said. </p> <p>"The wife, a daughter of 22 and three boys of between 12 and 16 were shot dead, with the assassins also beheading the last three," said Colonel Tawfiq al-Janaabi, police chief of Tarmiyah, 45 kilometres (28 miles) from Baghdad. </p> <p>He said the local chief of the Al-Sahwa militia, identified as Abu Ali, was on duty at a checkpoint at the time of the attack.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20647" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Senior police officer killed in Iraqi bomb attacks</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Two people, including a senior police officer, were killed and four others wounded on Tuesday in bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq’s western province of Anbar, an Interior Ministry source said. </p> <p>A roadside bomb struck the convoy of Colonel Raheem Omer, deputy police chief of Anbar province’s Hit city, some 160 km west of Baghdad, killing him, his driver and wounding two policemen, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/20/c_13259701.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Soldier Charged in Iraq Slayings Back in Court | 13WMAZ.com | Macon, GA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A Fort Stewart soldier charged with slaying a superior and a fellow U.S. soldier in Iraq is due back in a military court. </p> <p>A military judge is scheduled Tuesday to hear defense motions in the case of Army Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich. The judge may also rule on requests from both prosecutors and defense lawyers to delay his court-martial on murder charges. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=77912&catid=52" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>France24 – China’s CNPC to boost Iraqi oilfield output: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country’s top oil producer, aims to boost output at a giant Iraqi oilfield by 10 percent this year, a newspaper owned by the company said Tuesday. </p> <p>CNPC and Britain’s BP in November signed a deal with Iraq to nearly triple production from the current one million barrels a day to 2.85 million barrels at the Rumaila field over the next six to seven years. </p> <p>The consortium will fully take over work on the oilfield by June 30 and plans to increase its output by 10 percent by the end of this year, said a report by China Petroleum Daily, a newpaper owned by CNPC. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.france24.com/en/20100420-chinas-cnpc-boost-iraqi-oilfield-output" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Oil services giant set to tap Iraq: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>As energy companies scavenge for hard-to-extract sources in oil sands or deep water, Iraq is one of the last, and least exploited, sources of old-style cheap oil. Assuming Iraq can hit the targets set in last year’s round of oil contracts, the nation will be gushing close to an additional 10 million barrels a day by the end of the decade, according to the Energy Policy Research Foundation. </p> <p>Even getting half the way to this goal — a more realistic assumption –would eclipse other historic surges in supply, such as those from Russia in the mid-2000s and Mexico in the early 1980s. The stingy fee-per-barrel structure of the contracts oil companies have signed in Iraq means they benefit from volume, not price, giving them a powerful incentive to pump at full speed. And all this is before allowing for new finds, which some geologists believe could more than double Iraqi reserves.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.financialpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2926952" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>IRAQ: Imam Assassination Sparks Fears of Violence – By Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail – IPS ipsnews.net</strong><strong>:</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, Apr 20, 2010 (IPS) – The assassination of Sheikh Ghazi Jabouri, a prominent Sunni Imam in the Al- Adhamiya district of Baghdad, has raised fears of renewed sectarian violence in the wake of the Mar. 7 elections.</p> <p>Tensions have been reported in the area following the assassination Wednesday last week. At least two gunmen killed Sheikh Jabouri, 42, as he walked home after completing morning prayers at the Rahman Mosque.</p> <p>His brother Sarmad Faisal Jabouri, like many Iraqis in Adhamiya district, blames the government. "We hold the government fully responsibility for the killing of my brother, because they are supposed to be in control of security at the entrances and exits to the area," Jabouri said.</p> <p>The attack came on a morning when a high-ranking officer in Iraq’s anti- terrorism police was killed by a bomb planted in his car. The attack also killed two nearby policemen.</p> <p>The violence comes amidst a wave of increasing attacks across the capital, and amidst political instability in the wake of last month’s elections, that have yet to yield a clear winner. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51124" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8907"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/03/iraqs-new-death-squad/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq’s New Death Squad">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/03/iraqs-new-death-squad/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq’s New Death Squad">Iraq’s New Death Squad</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/adhamiya/" rel="tag">Adhamiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-samarrai/" rel="tag">al-Samarrai</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/america/" rel="tag">America</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/awakening-councils/" rel="tag">Awakening Councils</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/brig-gen-simeon-trombitas/" rel="tag">Brig. 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We’re standing in the courtyard of his concrete-block house, his children are watching us quietly and his wife is twirling large circles of dough and slapping them against the inside walls of a roaring oven. He walks over to his three-foot-tall daughter and grabs her head like a melon. As she stands there, he gestures wildly behind her, pretending to tie up her hands, then pretending to point a rifle at her head. "They took the blindfold off me, pointed the gun at her head and cocked it, saying, ‘Either you tell us where al-Zaydawi is, or we kill your daughter.’" </p> <p>"They just marched into our house and took whatever they wanted," Hassan’s mother says, peeking out the kitchen door. "I’ve never seen anyone act like this." </p> <p>As Hassan tells it, it was a quiet night on June 10, 2008, in Sadr City, Baghdad’s poor Shiite district of more than 2 million people, when the helicopter appeared over his house and the front door exploded, nearly burning his sleeping youngest son. Before Hassan knew it, he was on the ground, hands bound and a bag over his head, with eight men pointing rifles at him, locked and loaded. </p> <p>At first he couldn’t tell whether the men were Iraqis or Americans. He says he identified himself as a police sergeant, offering his ID before they took his pistol and knocked him to the ground. The men didn’t move like any Iraqi forces he’d ever seen. They looked and spoke like his countrymen, but they were wearing American-style uniforms and carrying American weapons with night-vision scopes. They accused him of being a commander in the local militia, the Mahdi Army, before they dragged him off, telling his wife he was "finished." But before they left, they identified themselves. "We are the Special Forces. The dirty brigade," Hassan recalls them saying. </p> <p>The Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF) is probably the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, and it is free of many of the controls that most governments employ to rein in such lethal forces. The project started in the deserts of Jordan just after the Americans took Baghdad in April 2003. There, the US Army’s Special Forces, or Green Berets, trained mostly 18-year-old Iraqis with no prior military experience. The resulting brigade was a Green Beret’s dream come true: a deadly, elite, covert unit, fully fitted with American equipment, that would operate for years under US command and be unaccountable to Iraqi ministries and the normal political process. </p> <p>According to Congressional records, the ISOF has grown into nine battalions, which extend to four regional "commando bases" across Iraq. By December, each will be complete with its own "intelligence infusion cell," which will operate independently of Iraq’s other intelligence networks. The ISOF is at least 4,564 operatives strong, making it approximately the size of the US Army’s own Special Forces in Iraq. Congressional records indicate that there are plans to double the ISOF over the next "several years." </p> <p>According to retired Lt. Col. Roger Carstens, US Special Forces are "building the most powerful force in the region." In 2008 Carstens, then a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, was an adviser to the Iraqi National Counter-Terror Force, where he helped set up the Iraqi counterterrorism laws that govern the ISOF. </p> <p>"All these guys want to do is go out and kill bad guys all day," he says, laughing. "These guys are shit hot. They are just as good as we are. We trained ‘em. They are just like us. They use the same weapons. They walk like Americans." </p> <p>When the US Special Forces began the slow transfer of the ISOF to Iraqi control in April 2007, they didn’t put it under the command of the Defense Ministry or the Interior Ministry, bodies that normally control similar special forces the world over. Instead, the Americans pressured the Iraqi government to create a new minister-level office called the Counter-Terrorism Bureau. Established by a directive from Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, the CTB answers directly to him and commands the ISOF independently of the police and army. According to Maliki’s directive, the Iraqi Parliament has no influence over the ISOF and knows little about its mission. US Special Forces operatives like Carstens have largely overseen the bureau. Carstens says this independent chain of command "might be the perfect structure" for counterterrorism worldwide. </p> <p>Although the force is officially controlled by the Iraqi government, popular perception in Baghdad is that the ISOF–the dirty brigade–is a covert, all-Iraqi branch of the US military. That reading isn’t far from the truth. The US Special Forces are still closely involved with every level of the ISOF, from planning and carrying out missions to deciding tactics and creating policy. According to Brig. Gen. Simeon Trombitas, commander of the Iraq National Counter-Terror Force Transition Team, part of the multinational command responsible for turning control of the ISOF over to the Iraqi government, the US Special Forces continue to "have advisers at every level of the chain of command." </p> <p>In January 2008 the US Special Forces started allowing ISOF commanders to join missions with them and the ISOF rank and file. Starting last summer–when Hassan’s family was attacked–ISOF battalions began launching missions on their own, without American advisers, in Sadr City, where political agreements forbid the Americans from entering. Accusations of human rights abuses, killings and politically motivated arrests have surfaced, including assaults on a university president and arrests of opposition politicians. </p> <p>The US government has been focused on turning out "as many men in arms as possible, as quickly as possible," says Peter Harling, senior Middle East analyst at the International Crisis Group. "There has been very little impetus to build checks and controls to prevent abuse. It’s been very much about building up capability without the oversight that could prevent some of the units [from] turning into proxies working for some politician." </p> <p>In Sadr City opposition to the Iraqi government and the US occupation is strong. There is no longer any visible militia presence, but pictures of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr still stick to the US-built concrete walls that enclose the city, and calls to prayer end with a demand for the hastened exit of "the enemy." There, the ISOF uses a policy of collective punishment, aimed at intimidating civilians, charges Hassan al-Rubaie, Sadrist member of the parliamentary Security and Defense Committee. "They terrorize entire neighborhoods just to arrest one person they think is a terrorist," he says. "This needs to stop." </p> <p>US Special Forces advisers have done little to respond to allegations of abuse. Civilian pleas, public protests, complaints by Iraqi Army commanders about the ISOF’s actions and calls for disbanding it by members of Parliament have not pushed the US government to take a hard look at the force they are creating. Instead, US advisers dismiss such claims as politically motivated. "The enemy is trying to discredit them," says Carstens. "It’s not because they are doing anything dirty." </p> <p>On the same night Hassan Mahsan’s house was raided, 26-year-old Haidar al-Aibi was killed with a bullet to the forehead. His family says there was no warning. They tell me how it happened as we drink tea on the floor of their living room, furnished only with thick foam cushions and mournful depictions of the Shiite martyr Hussein. A woman weeps loudly in the corner, the sleeping child of her dead son almost obscured by the folds of her black garments. </p> <p>Fathil al-Aibi says the family was awakened around midnight by a nearby explosion. His brother Haidar ran up to the roof to see what had happened and was immediately shot from a nearby rooftop. When Fathil, his brother Hussein and his father, Abbas, tried to bring Haidar downstairs, they were shot at, too. For about two hours he lay lifeless on the roof while his family panicked as red laser beams from rifle scopes danced on their windows. "We had tests the next day at the university," Hussein says. "We didn’t think he would go like this." </p> <p>Down the road, around the same time that night, police commando Ahmed Shibli says he was also being fired on. He illuminates two bullet holes in his house with a kerosene lamp as we talk. The men who busted open his front door called themselves the dirty brigade, he says, and they were carrying American weapons, not the AK-47s or PKCs the National Police use. When they entered, they fired immediately. "It wasn’t a warning shot. They shot at me like they wanted to kill me as I was getting down on the ground. It was like we were first-degree terrorists." They fired again, he says, fatally shooting his ailing 63-year-old father. As blood poured from the old man’s hip, Ahmed says the men held a gun to his little boy’s head and forced his wife to search the room for the police-issued weapon he had left at work. </p> <p>Ahmed and his brother were hauled to the outskirts of the city, along with Hassan, where they were lined up with other men in the dark. Hassan insists on substantiating his story by showing me an official complaint issued by a local army commander named Mustafa Sabah Yunis, alleging that an "unknown armed squadron" entered the area and arrested him. </p> <p>Meanwhile, the Iraqi Army was rushing in to respond to the gunfire, and according to Hussein al-Aibi, these soldiers were shot at as well. He tells me the army got Haidar off the roof and drove him to the hospital. On the way, Fathil says, the vehicle was stopped by a dirty brigade operative, who asked Iraqi Army Major Abu Rajdi where they were going. According to Fathil, Rajdi told the operative, "This is a college student who has nothing to do with anything, and you shot him recklessly." The operative responded by hitting Rajdi and saying, "Turn around and go back, or we’ll shoot him and we’ll shoot you too." </p> <p>At Haidar’s funeral, Fathil asked Rajdi to testify. "You are a representative of the government, and you saw it all happen," he told the major. "You saw that he didn’t have a weapon in his hand." Fathil says the major declined. "This is the dirty brigade," he recalls Rajdi saying. "We are afraid of them. When we see them, we retreat. If I testify against them, I’ll be killed the next day. They kill and no one will hold them accountable, because they belong to the Americans." </p> <p>Major Rajdi’s fear and distrust of the ISOF are echoed by other members of the regular Iraqi Army. "Sometimes we are surprised when the Special Forces enter," says Lt. Colonel Yahya Rasoul Abdullah, commander of the Third Battalion of the Forty-second Brigade in Sadr City. "Bad things happen. Some people steal, and some abuse women. They don’t know the people on the streets like us. They just go after their target. We have suffered from this problem." </p> <p>Accounts of older ISOF operations I heard around Baghdad suggest that the Americans may have knowingly allowed violence against civilians. In Adhamiya, long the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency in Baghdad, two hospital employees described their 2006 run-in with the ISOF to me. According to both witnesses, a self-identified ISOF operative named "Captain Hussam" unloaded his machine gun in the Al Numan Hospital after seeing the body of his superior, who had died under the hospital’s care. An American operative with a red beard stood by silently watching. According to one witness, the Iraqi operative demanded his commander’s death certificate, threatening to "torture you, kill you and kill the people of Adhamiya" if they didn’t comply. The witnesses said the eight operatives who entered the hospital were driving Humvees, vehicles that only the Americans and the ISOF use. The next day, Captain Hussam returned, a witness said, offering a box of bullets as an apology. </p> <p>The effective head of the American ISOF project is General Trombitas of the Iraq National Counter-Terror Transition Team. A towering man with a gray mustache and a wrinkled brow, Trombitas spent nearly seven of his over thirty years in the military training special forces in Colombia, El Salvador and other countries. On February 23 he gave me a tour of Area IV, a joint American-Iraqi base near the Baghdad International Airport, where US Special Forces train the ISOF. As we walk away from the helicopter, he cracks a boyish smile. Though he’s worked with special forces all over the world, he tells me the men we are about to meet are "the best." </p> <p>Trombitas says he is "very proud of what was done in El Salvador" but avoids the fact that special forces trained there by the United States in the early 1980s were responsible for the formation of death squads that killed more than 50,000 civilians thought to be sympathetic with leftist guerrillas. Guatemala was a similar case. Some Guatemalan special forces that had been trained in anti-terrorism tactics by the United States during the mid-1960s subsequently became death squads that took part in the killing of around 140,000 people. In the early 1990s, US Special Forces trained and worked closely with an elite Colombian police unit strongly suspected of carrying out some of the murders attributed to Los Pepes, a death squad that became the backbone of the country’s current paramilitary organization. (Trombitas served in El Salvador from 1989-90 and in Colombia from 2003-2005, after these incidents took place.) </p> <p>"The standards get looser when the Americans aren’t with [the local special forces], and they can eventually become death squads, which I believe actually happened in Colombia," says Mark Bowden, author of <i>Black Hawk Down</i> and <i>Killing Pablo</i>, a book about the hunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar by CIA and US Special Forces. The tactics taught in each country are the same, Bowden says. "They teach the same kind of skills. They use the same equipment." </p> <p>Trombitas told the official blog of the Defense Department that the training missions used in Latin America are "extremely transferable" to Iraq. Salvadoran Special Forces even helped train the ISOF, he tells me. "It’s a world of coalitions," he says. "The longer we work together, the more alike we are. When we share our values and our experiences with other armies, we make them the same." </p> <p>Trombitas guides me into a warehouse where ISOF operatives, most of them in black masks, have been preparing for our arrival. He walks me through a special display of their American equipment–machine guns, sniper rifles, state-of-the-art night-vision equipment and fluffy desert camo that makes soldiers look like teddy bears. He takes me up a catwalk overlooking a fake house stocked with cartoonish posters of big-breasted women pointing pistols, a couple of real men dressed as "terrorists" with kaffiyehs wrapped around their faces and a 10-year-old boy playing hostage. </p> <p>As we stand in the observation area, the door explodes. After a minute of constant shooting, the operatives march out with the "terrorists," the boy and a poster of an ’80s-style villain, wearing a jean jacket and holding a woman hostage. More than twenty bullet holes are centered on his forehead. "Look at that marksmanship," Trombitas says, smiling proudly. </p> <p>Trombitas gets to the issue of human rights before I do. He assures me that US Special Forces take allegations of human rights abuses very seriously–two Iraqi men were let go for prisoner abuse since he took over in August last year, he says–but he won’t comment on specific cases. I raise the issue of accountability and bring up one well-documented mission that caused waves in the Iraqi Parliament: in August the ISOF raided Diyala’s provincial government compound, reportedly with the support of US Apache helicopters. They arrested a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq’s main Sunni Arab party. They also arrested the president of the university, also a Sunni, and killed a secretary and wounded four armed guards during the night. </p> <p>I barely get the word "Diyala" out of my mouth before the American operatives standing around us start to grumble nervously and a translator jumps in. "For the reputation of the ISOF, please, let’s cut that off," he says. </p> <p>Abdul-Karim al-Samarrai, a member of the ruling United Iraqi Alliance and the parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, says that what happened in Diyala was one of many signs of the prime minister’s bad intentions for the ISOF. "Politicians are afraid because this force can be used for political ends," he says. In response to outrage from members of Parliament over the arrest of politicians by the ISOF, Maliki, who is officially required to approve every ISOF target, denied any knowledge of the Diyala mission. His claim of innocence raises important questions. If the man who is supposed to be in charge of the ISOF has no knowledge of its missions, then who is ultimately responsible for the force? Was Maliki lying to cover up the fact that he is using the force for political purposes? Or was someone else–namely the Americans–calling the shots? </p> <p>Diyala was only the first publicized case of possibly politically motivated arrests. In December the ISOF arrested as many as thirty-five officials in the Interior Ministry who were thought to be in opposition to Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party. This past March the ISOF arrested at least one leader of the Awakening Councils, semiofficial Sunni neighborhood militias that have been increasingly at odds with Maliki over his failure to keep a promise to incorporate the councils into the military or give them other employment. </p> <p>The Maliki government has developed a "culture of direct control," says Michael Knights, a Lafer Fellow at the Washington Institute and the head of its Iraq program. Knights visits Iraq regularly and has close contact with the country’s security services. He says the people in charge of the ISOF at the regional levels are "personally chosen loyalists or relatives of Maliki. It reminds me of Saddam." Knights says that Maliki is only supposed to approve or reject missions that come to him, but occasionally he will "assert his prerogative as the commander in chief and tell the ISOF to do something or not to do something." Knights raises the possibility that the ISOF will become Maliki’s personal death squad. "The prime minister is looking for re-election, and there are not that many restraints on his ability to target political opponents, as [his government] has been doing with the Sadrists for years now." </p> <p>Samarrai, along with other members of Parliament, is calling for disbanding the Counter-Terrorism Bureau. He says there is no legal basis for an armed brigade to exist outside the control of the Interior or Defense ministry. "People are afraid of the existence of an organization with such dreadful capabilities that reports directly to the prime minister," he says. </p> <p>Member of Parliament Hassan al-Rubaie is concerned about the close relationship between the ISOF and the Americans. "If the US leaves Iraq, this will be the last force they will leave behind," he insists. He is worried that such a powerful and secretive force that is closely tied to the Americans could turn Iraq into a "military base in the region" by allowing the United States to continue to conduct missions in Iraq with the cover of the ISOF. "They have become a replacement" for the Americans, he says. </p> <p>President Obama has said he plans to increase reliance on the US Special Forces; Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s recent appointment of Stanley McChrystal as commander of Afghanistan suggests that he is keeping his word. From 2003 to 2008, McChrystal was the head of the Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees the Army’s most secretive forces and is responsible for the training of special forces abroad. McChrystal was also commander of US Special Operations Forces in Iraq for five years, during which time, according to the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, he commanded "units that specialize in guerrilla warfare, including the training of indigenous armies." </p> <p>"The eventual drawdown in Iraq is not the end of the mission for our elite forces," Gates said in May 2008. Gates hasn’t spoken on the issue since Obama took office; but Obama says he will institutionalize irregular warfare capabilities, and the White House stresses the need to "create a more robust capacity to train, equip and advise foreign security forces, so that local allies are better prepared to confront mutual threats." </p> <p>Bowden says those "local allies" are often used for covert operations. "The United States Special Operations Command cultivates relationships with special forces in other countries because it gives the United States the opportunity of intervening militarily in a covert way," he says. "The ideal covert op is one that is actually carried out by local forces." </p> <p>As I stand on the tarmac with Trombitas in Area IV, waiting for our helicopter to return and fly us back to the Green Zone, I ask him how long the United States will be involved with the ISOF. "Special forces are special because we do maintain a relationship with foreign forces," he says. "Part of our theater-engagement strategy is to maintain a relationship with those units that are important to the security of the region and to the world." As our helicopter appears in the lightly clouded sky, he chooses his next words carefully: "We are going to have a working relationship for a while," he says. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090622/bauer/single" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq’s New Death Squad</a> | By Shane Bauer | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://www.thenation.com/" class="external" target="_blank">The Nation</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8590"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/04/%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d8%b3%d8%a8%d8%a8-%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/#respond" title="Comment on احد السجناء يحاول الانتحار بسبب سوء المعاملة في السجون 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rel="tag">prisoner deaths</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoner-suicides/" rel="tag">prisoner suicides</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisons-in-iraq/" rel="tag">prisons in iraq</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">قالت النائبة عن القائمة الصدرية زينب كريم، الخميس، ان احد السجناء حاول الانتحار في احدى السجون العراقية. <br/>واضافت كريم لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة انه تم انقاذ السجين في اللحظات الاخيرة ، مؤكدة على ان سبب الانتحار هو سوء المعاملة التي يتلقاها السجناء والموقوفين في السجون العراقية. <br/>واشارت كريم الى ان هذه هي حالة الانتحار الثانية التي تشهدها السجون العراقية نتيجة سوء المعاملة ، مطالبة الجهات المختصة بفتح تحقيق بالموضوع.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127044625/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoner-abuse/page/2/">« Previous 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