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Crimes committed by US Soldiers in Iraq

Murdered while in US occupation custody	To be murdered

Editor's Note: We appreciate the work of CBS to publish these photos which revealed some of the crimes that are committed by the US occupation forces in Iraq. Some of these photos below reveal the inhumane action of these soldiers.

Senior officers ''failed to comply with established regulations, policies and command directives in preventing detainee abuses,'' Army Maj Gen. Antonio Taguba wrote in the classified investigative report completed in March, according to the daily.

The New Yorker magazine reported the existence of the report on its website Sunday, while the Los Angeles Times reported details for the first time, which could lead to an escalation in anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq and other Arab nations.

According to the newspaper, the abuse (torture) of Iraqi prisoners at U.S. military prisons in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, occurred between October and December.

The abuses included attaching wires to detainees' fingers, toes and penis to simulate electric torture, as well as using military dogs to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at lease one case biting and severely injuring a detainee, the daily said in quoting from the investigative report.

The U.S. military personnel photographed and videotaped naked detainees, including women, in various sexually explicit positions, the newspaper said.

The Los Angeles Times said the report also noted that ''very little instruction or training was provided to MP (military police) personnel on the applicable rules of the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.''

The newspaper also quoted the report as saying the ''sadistic'' abuses were ''caused or exacerbated by poor leadership and the refusal...to both establish and enforce basic standards and principles among its soldiers.''

The paper said the report appears to undermine an early round of explanations by U.S. officials that the abuses were isolated acts of a small number of low-ranking soldiers.

On Tuesday, Iraqi Human Rights Minister resigned over the torture of Iraqi detainees. It is believed up to 70% (6850) of the detainees are civilians and innocents of any crime. Case in point, and an Iraqi teenager who was caught stealing a candy was tortured by coalition forces and photographed while British soldier was urinating on him.

It is not clear if the US Secretary of Defense will resign over this growing scandal. On Tuesday, an Iraqi group named the Deliver and Justice promised retaliations in kind against US soldiers in Iraq.

Some of the leveled torture charges against the US Marines including:

Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;

Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;

Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick;

Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped.

In a related matter 25 death of Iraqi detainees are being investigated by occupation authorities, two detainees have been confirmed murdered on the hands of a CIA contract employee and the other by US guards.

After the torture scandal, many Iraqis consider the regime of Saddam Hussein still exists in the form of a US occupation with an American face. Also, worthy to note, The same techniques and tortures that are used by the US soldiers have been used by Israeli occupation soldiers in Palestine against the Palestinians.