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British Trained Police in Iraq 'Killed Prisoners With Electric Drills'

What the recent US Middle East torture discussion is not talking about
is the methods coalition forces are used. Bush and his cronies in his
Junta were also ghoulishly involved with ordering specific tortures of
individual detainees. Also with the CIA rendition the type of torture
includes things like slicing the glands of the penis with a razor for
months on end. Using a prostitute to humilate and degrade detainees is
routine.

British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills'

By Francis Elliott, Raymond Whitaker and Kim Sengupta

11/20/05 "The Independent" -- -- British-trained police operating in
Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric
drills, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

John Reid, the Secretary of State for Defence, admits that he knows of
"alleged deaths in custody" and other "serious prisoner abuse" at al-
Jamiyat police station, which was reopened by Britain after the war.

Militia-dominated police, who were recruited by Britain, are believed
to have tortured at least two men to death in the station. Their
bodies were later found with drill holes to their arms, legs and
skulls.

The victims were suspected of collaborating with coalition forces,
according to intelligence reports. Despite being pressed "very hard"
by Britain, however, the Iraqi authorities in Basra are failing to
even investigate incidents of torture and murder by police, ministers
admit.

The disclosure drags Britain firmly into the growing scandal of
officially condoned killings, torture and disappearances in Iraq. More
than 170 starving and tortured prisoners were discovered last week in
an Interior Ministry bunker in Baghdad.

American troops who uncovered the secret torture chamber are also said
to have discovered mutilated corpses, several bearing drill mark

Adam Price, the Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, who
uncovered the death at al-Jamiyat police station, called for an
immediate UN investigation into police torture. "The Government keeps
on saying that respect for human rights is a pre-condition of
withdrawal. Well, it should be a pre-condition for UK soldiers to
continue risking their lives in Iraq," he said.

Mr Reid said: "I am aware of serious allegations of prisoner abuse at
the Jamiyat, including two deaths in custody. We take this very
seriously. We have been pressing the Iraqi authorities very hard to
investigate these allegations thoroughly and then to take the
appropriate action."

Ministry of Defence sources privately confirm that the two SAS
soldiers seized and held in Jamiyat in September were investigating
allegations of police torture prompted by the discovery of the bodies.

British forces in armoured vehicles smashed their way into the station
to rescue them, but officers have admitted they are powerless to
protect civilians in southern Iraq from militias, and military patrols
have been withdrawn from central Basra in the wake of the September
clashes.

In the US-controlled districts of Iraq, some senior military and
intelligence officials have been accused of giving tacit approval to
the extra-judicial actions of counter-insurgency forces.

Critics claim the situation echoes American collaboration with
military regimes in Latin America and south-east Asia during the Cold
War, particularly in Vietnam, where US-trained paramilitaries were
used to kill opponents of the South Vietnamese government.

© 2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11084.htm

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