Troops in Iraq abuse......Iraqis working for REUTERS & NBC

[No2W2004]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=1&u=/nm/iraq_reuters_dc

Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said Tuesday.

The three first told Reuters of the ordeal after their release but only decided to make it public when the U.S. military said there was no evidence they had been abused, and following the exposure of similar mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

An Iraqi journalist working for U.S. network NBC, who was arrested with the Reuters staff, also said he had been beaten and mistreated, NBC said Tuesday.

Two of the three Reuters staff said they had been forced to insert a finger into their anus and then lick it, and were forced to put shoes in their mouths, particularly humiliating in Arab culture.

[MasonJar]

1. Well, this should be on the front page and on NBC News. But

will it? Hell, no.

[napi21]

2. I don't know about that. It's never good to pi*ss off the Press.

If I remember, the entire media was very upset when "one of theirs" was hurt, killed, or murdered. I know I heard the reports on competative networks. I would think it is going to make more real reporters look much harder at this abuse problem, and revenge against those responsible. Reuters isn't CNN v/s FOX. It's more the the AP and they all have friends there.

Could be another problem for ShrubCo! (Ohhhh I hope so!)