Up to 90% of Iraqi detainees arrested by mistake, Red Cross says

[Viking12]

This makes Inhofe's ranting even more pathetic....


Up to 90% of Iraqi detainees arrested by mistake, Red Cross says

May 11, 2004

BY ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS


GENEVA -- Up to 90 percent of Iraqi detainees were arrested ''by mistake,'' according to coalition intelligence officers cited in a Red Cross report disclosed Monday.

Abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers was widespread and routine, the report finds -- contrary to President Bush's contention that the mistreatment ''was the wrongdoing of a few.''

Red Cross delegates saw U.S. military intelligence officers mistreating prisoners under interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison and collected allegations of abuse at more than 10 other detention facilities, according to the report.

The 24-page document cites abuses -- some ''tantamount to torture'' -- including brutality, hooding, humiliation and threats of ''imminent execution.''


http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-abuse11.html

[keithyboy]

1. Will someone please tell Mr. Inhofe?

He needs a good reality check.