U.S. Medics' Role in Spotlight Over Prisoner Abuse

Birmingham Post

United States Army medics have been accused of being complicit in the abuse of Iraqi inmates at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

In an article published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday, Dr. Steven Miles claimed some U.S. medical personnel ignored human rights standards and the ethics of their profession.

"Army investigations have looked at a small set of human rights abuses, but have not investigated reports from human rights organisations, nor have they focused on the role of medical personnel or examined detention centres that were not operated by the Army," Dr. Miles said."

In other words, the Army investigations have only investigated what they had to, ignoring the rest.

Arf (and they say they are "liberating" the Iraqis. How much "liberation" can they take?)