Hat die CIA die sadistischen Exzesse im Irak ermutigt?

--- Die US-Medien arbeiten langsam, aber sicher die Hintergr�nde der Folterungen irakischer Gefangener heraus. So enth�llt das Kriegsreporter-Urgestein Seymor M. Hersh im New Yorker einen internen Untersuchungsbericht des US-Milit�rs zu den Vorg�ngen in Abu Ghraib, einem Gef�ngniskomplex nahe Bagdads, der -- wie k�nnte es anders sein -- auch bereits den Schergen Saddam Husseins als Folterkammer diente: A fifty-three-page report, obtained by The New Yorker, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and not meant for public release, was completed in late February. Its conclusions about the institutional failures of the Army prison system were devastating. Specifically, Taguba found that between October and December of 2003 there were numerous instances of �sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses� at Abu Ghraib. This systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, Taguba reported, was perpetrated by soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, and also by members of the American intelligence community. Taguba�s report listed some of the wrongdoing:Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee. Hershs Bericht weist bereits darauf hin, dass die unter dem Kommando der CIA stehenden Mitarbeiter des Milit�rgeheimdienstes die Exzesse unterst�tzt haben -- anscheinend, um die Gefangenen weich zu kochen: The military-intelligence officers have �encouraged and told us, �Great job,� they were now getting positive results and information,� Frederick [einer der �belt�ter] wrote. Die New York Times greift heute die CIA-Vermutungen auf und l�sst sie sich von der inzwischen suspendierten Oberaufseherin der Milit�rpolizei im Irak, der Generalin Janis Karpinski, best�tigen: She said that while the reservists involved in the abuses were "bad people" who deserved punishment, she suspected that they were acting with the encouragement, if not at the direction, of military intelligence units that ran the special cellblock used for interrogation. She said that C.I.A. employees often joined in the interrogations at the prison. Die Bush-Regierung und die Geheimdienste geraten angesichts der dokumentieren Schweinereien endg�ltig unter enormen Rechtfertigungsdruck.

PS: Der New Yorker mag seinen Online-Lesern auch eine recht umfangreiche und farbige Foto-Galerie mit den von CBS bereits teilweise gezeigten Bildern der Dem�tigungen nicht vorenthalten.

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