With Allies Like This ...

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Originally Posted by The Washington Post

Torture Alleged After U.S.-Led Raid Uncovers Iraqi-Run Prison
3 Marines Killed in Western Offensive; 3 GIs Die Near Baghdad

By Omar Fekeiki
Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; Page A13

BAGHDAD, Nov. 15 -- A U.S.-led raid uncovered an underground prison run by Iraq's Interior Ministry where detainees allegedly were being tortured, the prime minister said Tuesday. Separately, a Sunni Arab leader accused the government of involvement in the kidnapping and killing of 46 Sunni men.

The new accusations against the Shiite-dominated government's security forces came on a day when bombings and ambushes across the country killed 13 Iraqi policemen, authorities said.

The U.S. military reported that three Marines and 80 insurgents had been killed over the past 48 hours in western Iraq, where a U.S. offensive came up against more than 100 insurgent bombs and mines. In addition, the military said three soldiers were killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad.

In Baghdad, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari and other officials told reporters that detainees had been found in a basement of an Interior Ministry complex in the heart of the capital.

"I was informed that there were 173 detainees held at an Interior Ministry prison and they appear to be malnourished. There is also some talk that they were subjected to some kind of torture," Jafari said.

U.S. and Iraqi forces discovered the inmates when they went into the compound suspecting that individuals there may have been mistreated, the Pentagon said.

The troops "found things that concerned them," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. Whitman did not say when the inmates were found, but U.S. troops took control of the Interior Ministry building Sunday.

Talk of a secret detention center at the Interior Ministry compound had surfaced in Baghdad this summer. Officials of the ministry, whose ranks are made up mainly of former members of Shiite militias, have repeatedly acknowledged some human rights abuses by their forces but never confirmed the rumors of a secret torture center run with the help of intelligence agents from neighboring Iran.

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Fuck, we're not even out of the country and one segment is inviting the Iranians in.

Until lately, I have been almost as skeptical of calls for U.S. troop withdrawls (under the "you break it, you fix it" rule) as I was for the justifications of the "strategy" [sic] under which we have operated.

I'm not sure we can fix Iraq now. The damage we allowed to happen by destroying Saddam's government without replacing its authority is too great.

Maybe it is time to bring them home.