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By Rick Rogers San Diego Union-Tribune While world attention was focused on the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, two Marines were court-martialed May 14 for abusing an Iraqi prisoner with electricity, it was disclosed yesterday.
Five more Marines have been implicated in the same early April incident at a Marine-run detention facility and might face charges, according to Marine officials in Iraq.
Andrew J. Sting and Jeremiah J. Trefney, both 19 and privates first class (…)

By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Everyone on Planet Earth has now seen America’s liberating forces humiliate, brutalize, and torture naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison. As bad as we thought the story could get, it grows sicker with every new photograph and video. Our eyes glaze over. We despair at seeing how war - and unlimited power over others - can twist a handful of otherwise decent, small-town Army reservists into sadistic torturers.
But, look again. The dirty (…)

By T. Trent Gegax Newsweek
"Could you stand there while he’s in the shower?" Army Reserve Spc. Diane Liang recalls the plain-clothed American official asking her. "He’ll feel more humiliated if there’s a female present." As a member of the 372nd Military PoliceCompany, Liang was assisting with interrogations last January in Tier 1A of Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison. When she walked over, she saw a nude man in a stall with cold water streaming over his head. For 30 minutes, Liang watched the (…)

At least 2,000 pages might have been missing from the copy of the Army report on soldiers’ abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners that was delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The 6,000-page report, compiled by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, formed the basis for hearings this month into the allegations. Taguba found "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" had been inflicted on Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad between last October (…)

By Scott Higham, Joe Stephens and Josh White The Washington Post
Alleged Presence of Sanchez Cited by Lawyer.
A military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case stated that a captain at the prison said the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some "interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse," according to a recording of a military hearing obtained by The Washington Post.
The lawyer, Capt. Robert Shuck, said he was told that (…)

By Kamal Ahmed The Observer U.K.
Military win immunity pledge in deal on UN vote.
British and American troops are to be granted immunity from prosecution in Iraq after the crucial 30 June handover, undermining claims that the new Iraqi government will have ’full sovereignty’ over the state.
Despite widespread ill-feeling about the abuse of prisoners by American forces and allegations of mistreatment by British troops, coalition forces will be protected from any legal action. (…)

By Bob Herbert New York Times
The hapless Jeremy Sivits got the headlines yesterday. A mechanic whose job was to service gasoline-powered generators, Specialist Sivits was sentenced to a year in prison and thrown out of the Army for accepting an invitation to take part in the sadistic treatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
But there’s another soldier in serious trouble to whom we should be paying even closer attention. His case doesn’t just call into question the (…)

By Andrew Buncombe Independent U.K.
A US soldier has detailed how he witnessed troops carrying out "mock executions" of Iraqi prisoners and refusing to let them sleep at the command of interrogators - months before the notorious abuse at Abu Ghraib prison took place.
The soldier said he and his colleagues were openly told not to refer to the detention centre they were working in at al-Assad Air Force Base as a prisoner of war camp as it breached guidelines set out by the Geneva (…)

By Scott Higham and Joe Stephens Washington Post
Abu Ghraib Detainees’ Statements Describe Sexual Humiliation And Savage Beatings.
Previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq describe in raw detail abuse that goes well beyond what has been made public, adding allegations of prisoners being ridden like animals, sexually fondled by female soldiers and forced to retrieve their food from toilets.
The fresh allegations of prison abuse are (…)

The Other Prisoners By Luke Harding The Guardian U.K.
Most of the coverage of abuse at Abu Ghraib has focused on male detainees. But what of the five women held in the jail, and the scores elsewhere in Iraq?
The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi (…)