Interrogator Confirms Routine Iraq Torture

Whistleblower! - US Interrogator Confirms Routine Iraq Torture

Here's a story that will disappear until bloggers start talking about it. Only PBS Frontline and Democracy Now! have dared to interview U.S. interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who reports widespread torture and abuse throughout Iraq. He admits: - frustrated US soldiers torture Iraqi families at length in their homes - including flesh burning, bone breaking, and ax attacks - with impunity - no matter how obvious their innocence, detainees are always treated as guilty and sent to Abu Ghraib - officers filed unfounded reports to bolster the claim that Fallujah dead were foreigners - actually the Fallujah corpses included numerous women and children - Lagouranis's multiple official abuse reports, ignored by CID and commanders for over a year, were suddenly re-filed after he appeared on Frontline - torture has produced no useful intelligence, and efforts to legalize it are "the worst thing we could do"

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