Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad

Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses

Ian Cobain
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 April 2013 13.04 EDT

British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first time, spoken about abuses they witnessed there.

Personnel from two RAF squadrons and one Army Air Corps squadron were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison, the Guardian has established.

And many of the detainees were brought to the facility by snatch squads formed from Special Air Service and Special Boat Service squadrons.

Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Once it was realised that Saddam's regime had long since abandoned its WMD programme, TF 121 was re-tasked with tracking down people who might know where the deposed dictator and his loyalists might be, and then with catching al-Qaida leaders who sprang up in the country after the regime collapsed.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abuses

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Shhhh. Nothing to see here, move along.

[democrank]

2. Sickening

To this day we have torture fans in the United States of America.

[Andy Stanton]

3. Not a surprise to me

The neocons that started the war and ramped it up - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Hadley, Rice, Perle and GW Bush - should all be in prison for their war mongering and human rights abuses.

[tblue]

5. The fact that they're not even indicted

is an even worse crime and scars this country in perpetuity. Politics won out. One of my biggest beefs with this admin.

[formercia]

4. Off to the Greatest Page.

....as if we didn't know in our Hearts this was happening.

[Scuba]

6. Really makes one proud to be an American, eh?

[Gregorian]

7. So, when do the war trials begin?

I call them "Pinochet years". Usually 30 years.

By my calculation, George W. Bush, and his gang of criminals ought to be standing trial in...2034.

[Alameda]

13. problem with that is they have already enjoyed their lives

Sheesh....how disgusting! By the time they are tried, many of them will have passed on, or be on death's bed anyway.

[DeSwiss]

8. It's what empires have always done. - K&R n/t

[ReRe]

9. Disgusting :-(

... and we paid for it. Comes right straight out of every tax dollar collected.

[forestpath]

10. No wonder Obama wanted to "look forward."

[Occulus]

19. If he knew about this, he's just as culpable as Bush and Cheney, et al.

This is a bell Obama can't unring if that's the case.

[daleo]

11. The article's details are horrible

Torture, pure and simple.

[summerschild]

14. Winning hearts & minds..... "We'll be greeted as liberators"...

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I am ashamed.
And it was done in my name.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

12. That's my country.

[Arctic Dave]

15. Strong K&R

[Th1onein]

16. Bush and Blair are complicit in crimes against humanity.

They knew exactly what was going on:

Griffin had done just that [spoken out about the torture], asking the MoD itself to investigate the activities of the taskforce of which he had been a member. The MoD obtained an injunction to silence him, and warned he faced jail if he ever spoke out again.

[xtraxritical]

17. k&r

[idwiyo]

18. Kick of visibility

[kath]

20. Reading the article makes my stomach churn. I'm sure the US M$M will be all over this story.

Not.

[green for victory]

21. kr

[bemildred]

22. Our very own death squads, how nice.

Let the butt covering now begin. We chould call them Cheney Gangs.

[Solly Mack]

23. News about Camp Nama and TFs-121 & 6-26 has long been reported.

It is good that others are also verifying it.

Now if only there was such a thing as accountability in America.