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Delta Force, Navy SEALs involved in abuse? Iraqi died while being interrogated at prison
by Open-Publishing - Saturday 8 May 20044 comments
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
May 06, 2004 - As the investigation expands, officials tell NBC News that special operations forces, including both Delta Force and Navy SEALs, were possibly also involved in abusing prisoners in Iraq.
In fact, one prisoner, Mon Adel al Jamadi, died while being interrogated in Abu Ghraib by a CIA officer last November, shortly after being captured by Navy SEALs. Al Jamadi was being questioned about a plot to attack U.S. forces with plastic explosives.
An autopsy revealed al Jamadi had broken ribs and had been "badly beaten." His CIA interrogator has told investigators the prisoner was injured before he was turned over to the CIA - something the Navy denies.
In a second case, the CIA is being investigated for the death of Iraqi Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush near the Syrian border, also last November. The CIA says he died several days after they questioned him.
A third CIA prisoner died last June in Afghanistan - also after a severe beating.
Did the CIA or other intelligence agencies tell the guards to get the prisoners to talk? According to former CIA officer Robert Baer, "I can’t believe that those MPs knew enough about Arab culture to systematically do this.… Somebody prompted them."
Intelligence officials deny directing the abuse. But the Army’s investigation said military intelligence and "other government agencies" - the Army’s code for the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and special operations forces, "actively requested that MP guards set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses."
The general who was in charge of the prison says it got out of hand. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski remembers, "They said, ’Hey, that worked pretty well.’ They told us to take the clothes away from those six prisoners, and nobody seemed to think that that was wrong, so let’s take clothes away from 12 of them."
Now the CIA confirms that some of its officers hid prisoners from watchdog groups like the Red Cross - violations also under investigation.
Forum posts
9 May 2004, 00:18
I think the U.S. Navy SEALs were not involved in the beating of Iraqi prisoners.
24 May 2004, 19:38
Delta Force doesn’t perform interrogations on individuals - they don’t have the man power nor have they been trained to contact such a mission. This is more of the media not having the facts.
24 February 2005, 17:03
The special forces community has the intelligence to peform interrogations, however that is not there general area of expertise why torture happens is because it is intentionally overlooked and accepted tactic to get information needed to get arms cache or the next car bomber. I have served in the Navy and now in the Army and do feel that unconventional warfare has unconventional tactics to get information
4 June 2006, 10:29
I agree with everything the above parties have said. furthermore, the liberal medias knowledge of the military is pittiful at best. yet they think they have the where with all to comment on it. it would be like a car mechanic commenting on the intricacies of neurosurgery. yet they do it, because liberal media neophytes, for some reason, believe that they are better informed than the rest of the world (such a condescending attitude always! i know, i live in sf), and are thus, more qualified to editorialize anything and everything that doesn’t fit nicely into their paradigm.
also, outing spec ops operators identities is abjectly immoral. these soldiers and sailors and marines live and die by their anonymity. the media seems to be so ignorant of this, that they lump these elite troops in with any old set of grunts and think that they can publish pictures and names without permission and without consequence.