Army Documents Raise Fresh Concerns of Abuse by Navy SEALs

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBSTB8JC6E.html

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Newly released Army documents suggest that soldiers at a makeshift Iraqi detention camp suspected that detainees were being mistreated by a Navy SEAL team whose members were photographed posing with bloodied prisoners.
Two Army interrogators said they were concerned about the way members of SEAL Team Five were treating prisoners, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Some of the prisoners brought in by the SEALs "appeared to be very severely beaten," an unnamed Army staff sergeant told investigators last year.

The statements were among hundreds of pages of documents about Iraq prisoner abuses the ACLU made public last week after obtaining them through the Freedom of Information Act.

Members of SEAL Team Five, based in Coronado, appear in a series of images found last year by The Associated Press that show the immediate aftermath of raids on civilian homes. It was unclear whether the photos and the Army reports involved the same men. There are more than 100 men in SEAL Team Five.

"When we would inquire about their wounds, the SEALs/TF-20 members would provide a general 'they resisted' response," according to a sworn statement by the unnamed staff sergeant with the 1st Engineer Battalion at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

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[Frances]

1. I had a student who was a former SEAL

He told me that I wouldn't believe the things Seals were trained to do. He got out when his parents made him an offer he couldn't refuse. I'm so glad that he couldn't have been involved in this.

[MisterP]

2. He was skeert--I mean, under stress--I mean saw people being blown up--I

mean was in danger--I mean...