AP: Exams prove abuse, torture in Iraq, Gitmo - Yahoo! News

Reason number 1,0001 that validates the high court decision on Guantanamo and 10,001 why we're not held in high regard in the part of the world we're allegedly saving (or the rest of it). We cannot let this sort of thing go on or even be a rare occurrence. Not if we're pretending to be the arbiters of freedom and democracy.

Human rights and justice/due process. That's all it's about. The alternative is nothing more that idiocy and hypocrisy.

Exams prove abuse, torture in Iraq, Gitmo

WASHINGTON - Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.

For the most extensive medical study of former U.S. detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental health professionals examine 11 former prisoners. The group alleges finding evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes and accuses U.S. military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and providing confidential medical information to interrogators that they then exploited.

"Some of these men really are, several years later, very severely scarred," said Barry Rosenfeld, a psychology professor at Fordham University who conducted psychological tests on six of the 11 detainees covered by the study. "It's a testimony to how bad those conditions were and how personal the abuse was."

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