BAGHDAD - Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it will get a face lift and a new name, a senior justice official said yesterday.
The heavily fortified compound of gray stone buildings and watchtowers has come to symbolize American abuse of some prisoners captured in Iraq after photos were released showing US soldiers sexually humiliating inmates at the facility.
For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE and scroll down.
The scandal stoked support for the insurgency and was one of the biggest setbacks to the US military effort to win the peace in Iraq.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
The renovated facility will be called Baghdad's Central Prison because the name Abu Ghraib has left a "bitter feeling inside Iraqis' hearts," deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim said. Abu Ghraib, which was a torture center under Saddam Hussein, has been closed since 2006.
But just an ABUSE CENTER under the U.S.
The prison will house 3,500 inmates when it reopens in mid-February and will have a capacity for about 15,000 by the end of this year, Ibrahim said. The announcement comes as the US military has begun handing over about 15,000 detainees in its custody to the Iraqis under a new security agreement, prompting concern about Iraq's beleaguered judicial system. The United Nations warned in a recent human rights report about overcrowding and "grave human rights violations" of detainees in Iraqi custody....
It's a DEVIL or the deep blue sea choice.
Btw, WHATEVER HAPPENED to the SHOE-THROWING REPORTER, 'eh?
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Last year, the government said it would turn a section of the 280-acre prison into a museum documenting Hussein's crimes of torture but not the prisoner abuses committed by US guards.
They MADE MY POINT FOR ME!!!!
In all, 11 US soldiers were convicted of breaking military laws and five others were disciplined in connection with treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
And WHOM should be charged?
"In addition to Bush, suspects in the alleged conspiracy include a who’s who of top officials in Bush’s first term, principally Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet and their aides, says ABC News."
The photos taken at the prison brought another serious stain to America's reputation after worldwide protests against the March 2003 invasion. They also discredited Washington's claims that it was trying to build a country based on rule of law and respect for human rights on the wreckage of dictatorship.
First, that stain will NEVER COME OFF, especially since Obama Will Still Torture; I was ONE of 'em!; and those claims were bull from the start --, and we all knew it!
American authorities implemented a series of reforms in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, although they still faced complaints about prolonged detentions without charges.
Violence has declined dramatically in Iraq but militants continue to stage attacks, with a spate of bombings and assassinations ahead of Jan. 31 provincial elections.... Two US soldiers also died of noncombat causes in separate incidents yesterday in Iraq, the military said. The deaths raised to at least 4,232 members of the US military who have died in the Iraq war, since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The MSM and their lies! I'm tired of 'em!
And what about the IRAQI DEAD, huh?
The number of Iraqis killed by the surge has been around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- with 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion (must be nearly two million by now).
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: 600,000 DEAD!
Occupation Iraq: One Million Dead Iraqis
You clear now about those "unappreciative Iraqis," readers?
North of the capital, a suspected insurgent and a woman were killed and a girl was wounded by a gunshot during a US-Iraqi military operation targeting Al Qaeda in Iraq near the village of Hawija, the American military said. Local police and witnesses said those killed were a Hussein-era army officer and his wife, and said their 7-year-old daughter was wounded.
The woman was killed when she was spotted reaching under a mattress and did not show her hands as ordered, according to a US military statement, which added that a pistol was later found under the mattress....
They "found" a pistol, huh?
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BAGHDAD - US forces shot to death a husband and wife and wounded their 9-year-old daughter during an early-morning raid yesterday on their home in northern Iraq, according to the US military and Iraqi officials.... The man, angry over his wife's death, physically attacked the soldiers and they shot him, according to the statement.
The chairman of the Hawija Council said the woman's husband, Dhia Hussein, had not been in Al Qaeda in Iraq, as the US military had asserted. "I personally know Colonel Dhia Hussein. He is one of the former army officers, and he was trying to return to the new Iraqi Army. He has no affiliations with any armed groups," council Chairman Hussein Ali Salih said....
Chalk up MORE DEATHS to the "friendly fire," of "liberators," huh?
