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This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’s reign it was a place feared by all Iraqis, because in addition to holding up to 15,000 prisoners, Saddam’s regime used it as a site to torture and execute political and civilian adversaries.
We, as the US-led coalition forces used Abu Ghraib as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and detention center for suspected insurgents and terrorists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite the widely publicized “torture scandal” of a dishonorable few from the unit we replaced in February 2004, the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF as it was called during our deployment) served many worthy and critical functions during OIF, and this video is dedicated to all who served honorably, and especially to those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom.
I just recently remembered I even had this film on my VHS camcorder (antiquated technology!) and luckily was able to convert it into playable digital media.
It's a rare insider's view of the layout and conditions we lived in there, filmed near the end of our year-long deployment. As you will see by that time, through care packages, “scrounging” through left-behinds, and the eventual arrival of amenities from AAFES and MWR (the military’s Morale Welfare and Recreation services), we had 1000x better comforts available than when we first arrived (though “comforts” is a subjective word in a literal hell-hole where some locals are trying to kill you every day, but I digress).
FYI, this admittedly is not "wartime exciting" for viewers wanting explosions and action, as thankfully Xmas Day 2004 was quiet while I filmed this, but for anyone who has served in a combat zone, you know those reprieves are welcome. There were 296 documented mortar/gunfire/VBIED attacks directed at us by insurgents during our deployment at the FOB Feb 2004 - Feb 2005, so quiet days were few and far between.
If nothing else, my friends and family can see on video what I tried to describe through letters, and my brothers and sisters who served with me can take a nostalgic look back at that time in our lives when we were at "That Place everyone heard about.”
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"However, I can say that the Bagram facility does operate strictly in accordance with internationally accepted rules of treatment of people under confinement."
3. Camera operator
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
In addition, in March of this year, the US Army Inspector General conducted an inspection of the Bagram holding facility and, based on inputs from him and ongoing operations, we continue to look at our procedures there to make sure they continue to be in concurrence with internationally accepted norms."
5. Journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"As we don't discuss, for instance, confined people's identities, we also don't discuss the procedures that go on inside the confinement facility as a matter of operational security
7. Mansager seen through screen on camera
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"Re-emphasise that the persons under confinement there are kept under humanitarian conditions that are in accordance with internationally accepted norms."
9. Wide shot of press conference
STORYLINE:
The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan known to be under US investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to 14 on Wednesday, including two additional deaths being scrutinised by the CIA's inspector general.
Human rights groups have strongly criticised the military for its near-silence about the December 2002 deaths of two Afghan men at a heavily guarded holding facility at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul.
The slow pace of the investigation has left the American military facing damaging publicity on two fronts as it confronts new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager said the military continued to look at procedures at the holding facility to make sure they stayed "in concurrence with internationally accepted norms" though he didn't give any indication of how procedures have changed.
The military bars reporters from visiting the holding facility or photographing its prisoners, and refuses to say who is being held, for how long, or on suspicion of what charges.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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1. People entering building where the conference is being held
2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and Organisations''''
3. Close up of sign (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''The National Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq''''
4. Various of human rights advocates addressing conference
5. Various of audience
6. Man in audience showing a picture of hand injury, allegedly caused by torture
7. Man in audience reading the organisation''s statement
8. Sign (in English & Arabic) reading: "Prisoners need adequate shelter, clothing, water"
9. Former prisoner addressing conference
10. Sign (in Arabic) reading: '''' Justice to all Iraqi detainees''''
11. Close up pictures of an Iraqi prisoner
12. Sign (in English) reading: ''''Bound prisoners should not be beaten''''
13. Mother of a prisoner showing a photo of her son
14. Mother of a prisoner addressing audience
15. Sign (in Arabic) reading: "NGO press conference on prisoner abuse"
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Former Prisoner:
"Raping is Haram (forbidden in the Islamic religion), they (US soldiers) raped me and other prisoners and I have had psychological problems because of it. God is great on the Americans. Beware Iraqis! I have six children, four daughters and two boys and a wife. The Americans raped me, tortured me and starved me. I have medical reports to prove it.''''
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Mother of Abu Graib prisoner:
''''The prisoners'' photos which I have seen are horrible, really horrible, never witnessed before. I blame the Arab countries for not defending an Arab country. Infidels came here to do this."
18. Wide of conference
STORYLINE:
A number of Iraqi prisoners recently freed from the notorious Abu Graib prison talked in Baghdad on Sunday about the physical and psychological torture they say they faced at the hands of their US army jailers.
In a press conference held by the International Centre of the Occupation Watch and the National Association for the Defence of Human Rights, one of the prisoners claimed US soldiers had raped and tortured him.
A statement issued by former prisoners at the end of the conference called on the international community, the UN Secretary-General, Amnesty International and the Arab League to sue those who had been charged with torture and to release all prisoners.
The statement held US President George Bush and the US'' top administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, responsible for the prisoner abuse.
The new commander of Abu Ghraib prison, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has blamed the mistreatment of prisoners on the previous leadership and on Saturday promised "on my honour" that it would not happen again.
However, in September 2003, Miller made recommendations to Abu Graib''s commanders that Military Police should help gather intelligence from detainees to help interrogations - a policy that investigators have cited as possibly leading to the mistreatment of prisoners.
Miller has defended his position saying his recommendations were that Military Police guards helped in "passive intelligence collection," meaning they observed the detainees and passed information about them to interrogators. "There was no recommendation ever by this team that recommended that the MPs become actively involved in interrogation," he told reporters.
But an investigation into the prisoner abuse by Major General Antonio M. Taguba said Miller''s team recommended that guards be "actively engaged in setting the conditions" for interrogations, a policy Taguba said "runs counter to the smooth operation of a detention facility."
complex, where Miller was a former commander.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Baghdad
Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد ,بغداد Kurdish: Bexda, Iraqi pronunciation: [bɐʁˈd̪ɑːd̪]) is the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2011, is approximately 7,216,040, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran). According to the government, the population of the country has reached 35 million, with 9 million in the capital.
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g. House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning".
Throughout the High Middle Ages, Baghdad was considered to be the largest city in the world with an estimated population of 1,200,000 people. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
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22:28Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq Walking Tour Xmas Day 2004
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This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’s reign it was a place feared by all Iraqis, because in addition to holding up to 15,000 prisoners, Saddam’s regime used it as a site to torture and execute political and civilian adversaries. We, as the US-led coalition forces used Abu Ghraib as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and detention center for suspected insurgents and terrorists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite the widely publicized “torture scandal” of a dishonorable few from the unit we replaced in February 2004, the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF as it was called during our deployment) served many worthy and critical functions during OIF, and this video is dedicated to all who served honorably, and especially to those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom. I just recently remembered I even had this film on my VHS camcorder (antiquated technology!) and luckily was able to convert it into playable digital media. It's a rare insider's view of the layout and conditions we lived in there, filmed near the end of our year-long deployment. As you will see by that time, through care packages, “scrounging” through left-behinds, and the eventual arrival of amenities from AAFES and MWR (the military’s Morale Welfare and Recreation services), we had 1000x better comforts available than when we first arrived (though “comforts” is a subjective word in a literal hell-hole where some locals are trying to kill you every day, but I digress). FYI, this admittedly is not "wartime exciting" for viewers wanting explosions and action, as thankfully Xmas Day 2004 was quiet while I filmed this, but for anyone who has served in a combat zone, you know those reprieves are welcome. There were 296 documented mortar/gunfire/VBIED attacks directed at us by insurgents during our deployment at the FOB Feb 2004 - Feb 2005, so quiet days were few and far between. If nothing else, my friends and family can see on video what I tried to describe through letters, and my brothers and sisters who served with me can take a nostalgic look back at that time in our lives when we were at "That Place everyone heard about.” -
1:25Military comment on alleged prisoner abuse
Military comment on alleged prisoner abuseMilitary comment on alleged prisoner abuse
1. Wide shot of press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: "However, I can say that the Bagram facility does operate strictly in accordance with internationally accepted rules of treatment of people under confinement." 3. Camera operator 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: In addition, in March of this year, the US Army Inspector General conducted an inspection of the Bagram holding facility and, based on inputs from him and ongoing operations, we continue to look at our procedures there to make sure they continue to be in concurrence with internationally accepted norms." 5. Journalists 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: "As we don't discuss, for instance, confined people's identities, we also don't discuss the procedures that go on inside the confinement facility as a matter of operational security 7. Mansager seen through screen on camera 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: "Re-emphasise that the persons under confinement there are kept under humanitarian conditions that are in accordance with internationally accepted norms." 9. Wide shot of press conference STORYLINE: The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan known to be under US investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to 14 on Wednesday, including two additional deaths being scrutinised by the CIA's inspector general. Human rights groups have strongly criticised the military for its near-silence about the December 2002 deaths of two Afghan men at a heavily guarded holding facility at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul. The slow pace of the investigation has left the American military facing damaging publicity on two fronts as it confronts new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager said the military continued to look at procedures at the holding facility to make sure they stayed "in concurrence with internationally accepted norms" though he didn't give any indication of how procedures have changed. The military bars reporters from visiting the holding facility or photographing its prisoners, and refuses to say who is being held, for how long, or on suspicion of what charges. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/756882cbcd2066ba3ca9f0e0c6865c94 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
1:54Former prisoners, human rights groups on prison abuse
Former prisoners, human rights groups on prison abuseFormer prisoners, human rights groups on prison abuse
1. People entering building where the conference is being held 2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and Organisations'''' 3. Close up of sign (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''The National Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq'''' 4. Various of human rights advocates addressing conference 5. Various of audience 6. Man in audience showing a picture of hand injury, allegedly caused by torture 7. Man in audience reading the organisation''s statement 8. Sign (in English & Arabic) reading: "Prisoners need adequate shelter, clothing, water" 9. Former prisoner addressing conference 10. Sign (in Arabic) reading: '''' Justice to all Iraqi detainees'''' 11. Close up pictures of an Iraqi prisoner 12. Sign (in English) reading: ''''Bound prisoners should not be beaten'''' 13. Mother of a prisoner showing a photo of her son 14. Mother of a prisoner addressing audience 15. Sign (in Arabic) reading: "NGO press conference on prisoner abuse" 16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Former Prisoner: "Raping is Haram (forbidden in the Islamic religion), they (US soldiers) raped me and other prisoners and I have had psychological problems because of it. God is great on the Americans. Beware Iraqis! I have six children, four daughters and two boys and a wife. The Americans raped me, tortured me and starved me. I have medical reports to prove it.'''' 17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Mother of Abu Graib prisoner: ''''The prisoners'' photos which I have seen are horrible, really horrible, never witnessed before. I blame the Arab countries for not defending an Arab country. Infidels came here to do this." 18. Wide of conference STORYLINE: A number of Iraqi prisoners recently freed from the notorious Abu Graib prison talked in Baghdad on Sunday about the physical and psychological torture they say they faced at the hands of their US army jailers. In a press conference held by the International Centre of the Occupation Watch and the National Association for the Defence of Human Rights, one of the prisoners claimed US soldiers had raped and tortured him. A statement issued by former prisoners at the end of the conference called on the international community, the UN Secretary-General, Amnesty International and the Arab League to sue those who had been charged with torture and to release all prisoners. The statement held US President George Bush and the US'' top administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, responsible for the prisoner abuse. The new commander of Abu Ghraib prison, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has blamed the mistreatment of prisoners on the previous leadership and on Saturday promised "on my honour" that it would not happen again. However, in September 2003, Miller made recommendations to Abu Graib''s commanders that Military Police should help gather intelligence from detainees to help interrogations - a policy that investigators have cited as possibly leading to the mistreatment of prisoners. Miller has defended his position saying his recommendations were that Military Police guards helped in "passive intelligence collection," meaning they observed the detainees and passed information about them to interrogators. "There was no recommendation ever by this team that recommended that the MPs become actively involved in interrogation," he told reporters. But an investigation into the prisoner abuse by Major General Antonio M. Taguba said Miller''s team recommended that guards be "actively engaged in setting the conditions" for interrogations, a policy Taguba said "runs counter to the smooth operation of a detention facility." complex, where Miller was a former commander. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/49f2bff8aa943206ad287aadaa918564 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq Walking Tour Xmas Day 2004
This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’s reign it was a place feared by all Iraqis, because in addition to holding up to 15,000 prisoners, Saddam’s regime used it as a site to torture and execute political and civilian adversaries. We, as the US-led coalition forces used Abu Ghraib as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and detention center for suspected insurgents and terrorists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite the widely publicized “torture scandal” of a dishonorable few from the unit we replaced in February 2004, the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF as it was called during our deployment) served many worthy and critical functions during OIF, and this vid... -
Military comment on alleged prisoner abuse
1. Wide shot of press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: "However, I can say that the Bagram facility does operate strictly in accordance with internationally accepted rules of treatment of people under confinement." 3. Camera operator 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: In addition, in March of this year, the US Army Inspector General conducted an inspection of the Bagram holding facility and, based on inputs from him and ongoing operations, we continue to look at our procedures there to make sure they continue to be in concurrence with internationally accepted norms." 5. Journalists 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman: "As we don't disc... -
Former prisoners, human rights groups on prison abuse
1. People entering building where the conference is being held 2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and Organisations'''' 3. Close up of sign (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''The National Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq'''' 4. Various of human rights advocates addressing conference 5. Various of audience 6. Man in audience showing a picture of hand injury, allegedly caused by torture 7. Man in audience reading the organisation''s statement 8. Sign (in English & Arabic) reading: "Prisoners need adequate shelter, clothing, water" 9. Former prisoner addressing conference 10. Sign (in Arabic) reading: '''' Justice to all Iraqi detainees'''' 11. Close up pictures of an Iraqi prisoner 12. Sign (in Engl...
Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq Walking Tour Xmas Day 2004
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- Duration: 22:28
- Updated: 09 Mar 2015
- views: 1209
This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’...
This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’s reign it was a place feared by all Iraqis, because in addition to holding up to 15,000 prisoners, Saddam’s regime used it as a site to torture and execute political and civilian adversaries.
We, as the US-led coalition forces used Abu Ghraib as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and detention center for suspected insurgents and terrorists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite the widely publicized “torture scandal” of a dishonorable few from the unit we replaced in February 2004, the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF as it was called during our deployment) served many worthy and critical functions during OIF, and this video is dedicated to all who served honorably, and especially to those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom.
I just recently remembered I even had this film on my VHS camcorder (antiquated technology!) and luckily was able to convert it into playable digital media.
It's a rare insider's view of the layout and conditions we lived in there, filmed near the end of our year-long deployment. As you will see by that time, through care packages, “scrounging” through left-behinds, and the eventual arrival of amenities from AAFES and MWR (the military’s Morale Welfare and Recreation services), we had 1000x better comforts available than when we first arrived (though “comforts” is a subjective word in a literal hell-hole where some locals are trying to kill you every day, but I digress).
FYI, this admittedly is not "wartime exciting" for viewers wanting explosions and action, as thankfully Xmas Day 2004 was quiet while I filmed this, but for anyone who has served in a combat zone, you know those reprieves are welcome. There were 296 documented mortar/gunfire/VBIED attacks directed at us by insurgents during our deployment at the FOB Feb 2004 - Feb 2005, so quiet days were few and far between.
If nothing else, my friends and family can see on video what I tried to describe through letters, and my brothers and sisters who served with me can take a nostalgic look back at that time in our lives when we were at "That Place everyone heard about.”
wn.com/Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq Walking Tour Xmas Day 2004
This video is a 23 minute walking tour of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, located directly halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah. During Saddam Hussein’s reign it was a place feared by all Iraqis, because in addition to holding up to 15,000 prisoners, Saddam’s regime used it as a site to torture and execute political and civilian adversaries.
We, as the US-led coalition forces used Abu Ghraib as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and detention center for suspected insurgents and terrorists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite the widely publicized “torture scandal” of a dishonorable few from the unit we replaced in February 2004, the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF as it was called during our deployment) served many worthy and critical functions during OIF, and this video is dedicated to all who served honorably, and especially to those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom.
I just recently remembered I even had this film on my VHS camcorder (antiquated technology!) and luckily was able to convert it into playable digital media.
It's a rare insider's view of the layout and conditions we lived in there, filmed near the end of our year-long deployment. As you will see by that time, through care packages, “scrounging” through left-behinds, and the eventual arrival of amenities from AAFES and MWR (the military’s Morale Welfare and Recreation services), we had 1000x better comforts available than when we first arrived (though “comforts” is a subjective word in a literal hell-hole where some locals are trying to kill you every day, but I digress).
FYI, this admittedly is not "wartime exciting" for viewers wanting explosions and action, as thankfully Xmas Day 2004 was quiet while I filmed this, but for anyone who has served in a combat zone, you know those reprieves are welcome. There were 296 documented mortar/gunfire/VBIED attacks directed at us by insurgents during our deployment at the FOB Feb 2004 - Feb 2005, so quiet days were few and far between.
If nothing else, my friends and family can see on video what I tried to describe through letters, and my brothers and sisters who served with me can take a nostalgic look back at that time in our lives when we were at "That Place everyone heard about.”
- published: 09 Mar 2015
- views: 1209
Military comment on alleged prisoner abuse
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:25
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 7
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"However, I can say that the Bagram facility...
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"However, I can say that the Bagram facility does operate strictly in accordance with internationally accepted rules of treatment of people under confinement."
3. Camera operator
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
In addition, in March of this year, the US Army Inspector General conducted an inspection of the Bagram holding facility and, based on inputs from him and ongoing operations, we continue to look at our procedures there to make sure they continue to be in concurrence with internationally accepted norms."
5. Journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"As we don't discuss, for instance, confined people's identities, we also don't discuss the procedures that go on inside the confinement facility as a matter of operational security
7. Mansager seen through screen on camera
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"Re-emphasise that the persons under confinement there are kept under humanitarian conditions that are in accordance with internationally accepted norms."
9. Wide shot of press conference
STORYLINE:
The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan known to be under US investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to 14 on Wednesday, including two additional deaths being scrutinised by the CIA's inspector general.
Human rights groups have strongly criticised the military for its near-silence about the December 2002 deaths of two Afghan men at a heavily guarded holding facility at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul.
The slow pace of the investigation has left the American military facing damaging publicity on two fronts as it confronts new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager said the military continued to look at procedures at the holding facility to make sure they stayed "in concurrence with internationally accepted norms" though he didn't give any indication of how procedures have changed.
The military bars reporters from visiting the holding facility or photographing its prisoners, and refuses to say who is being held, for how long, or on suspicion of what charges.
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wn.com/Military Comment On Alleged Prisoner Abuse
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"However, I can say that the Bagram facility does operate strictly in accordance with internationally accepted rules of treatment of people under confinement."
3. Camera operator
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
In addition, in March of this year, the US Army Inspector General conducted an inspection of the Bagram holding facility and, based on inputs from him and ongoing operations, we continue to look at our procedures there to make sure they continue to be in concurrence with internationally accepted norms."
5. Journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"As we don't discuss, for instance, confined people's identities, we also don't discuss the procedures that go on inside the confinement facility as a matter of operational security
7. Mansager seen through screen on camera
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, Coalition spokesman:
"Re-emphasise that the persons under confinement there are kept under humanitarian conditions that are in accordance with internationally accepted norms."
9. Wide shot of press conference
STORYLINE:
The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan known to be under US investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to 14 on Wednesday, including two additional deaths being scrutinised by the CIA's inspector general.
Human rights groups have strongly criticised the military for its near-silence about the December 2002 deaths of two Afghan men at a heavily guarded holding facility at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul.
The slow pace of the investigation has left the American military facing damaging publicity on two fronts as it confronts new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager said the military continued to look at procedures at the holding facility to make sure they stayed "in concurrence with internationally accepted norms" though he didn't give any indication of how procedures have changed.
The military bars reporters from visiting the holding facility or photographing its prisoners, and refuses to say who is being held, for how long, or on suspicion of what charges.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/756882cbcd2066ba3ca9f0e0c6865c94
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
- published: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 7
Former prisoners, human rights groups on prison abuse
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:54
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 13
1. People entering building where the conference is being held
2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and ...
1. People entering building where the conference is being held
2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and Organisations''''
3. Close up of sign (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''The National Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq''''
4. Various of human rights advocates addressing conference
5. Various of audience
6. Man in audience showing a picture of hand injury, allegedly caused by torture
7. Man in audience reading the organisation''s statement
8. Sign (in English & Arabic) reading: "Prisoners need adequate shelter, clothing, water"
9. Former prisoner addressing conference
10. Sign (in Arabic) reading: '''' Justice to all Iraqi detainees''''
11. Close up pictures of an Iraqi prisoner
12. Sign (in English) reading: ''''Bound prisoners should not be beaten''''
13. Mother of a prisoner showing a photo of her son
14. Mother of a prisoner addressing audience
15. Sign (in Arabic) reading: "NGO press conference on prisoner abuse"
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Former Prisoner:
"Raping is Haram (forbidden in the Islamic religion), they (US soldiers) raped me and other prisoners and I have had psychological problems because of it. God is great on the Americans. Beware Iraqis! I have six children, four daughters and two boys and a wife. The Americans raped me, tortured me and starved me. I have medical reports to prove it.''''
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Mother of Abu Graib prisoner:
''''The prisoners'' photos which I have seen are horrible, really horrible, never witnessed before. I blame the Arab countries for not defending an Arab country. Infidels came here to do this."
18. Wide of conference
STORYLINE:
A number of Iraqi prisoners recently freed from the notorious Abu Graib prison talked in Baghdad on Sunday about the physical and psychological torture they say they faced at the hands of their US army jailers.
In a press conference held by the International Centre of the Occupation Watch and the National Association for the Defence of Human Rights, one of the prisoners claimed US soldiers had raped and tortured him.
A statement issued by former prisoners at the end of the conference called on the international community, the UN Secretary-General, Amnesty International and the Arab League to sue those who had been charged with torture and to release all prisoners.
The statement held US President George Bush and the US'' top administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, responsible for the prisoner abuse.
The new commander of Abu Ghraib prison, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has blamed the mistreatment of prisoners on the previous leadership and on Saturday promised "on my honour" that it would not happen again.
However, in September 2003, Miller made recommendations to Abu Graib''s commanders that Military Police should help gather intelligence from detainees to help interrogations - a policy that investigators have cited as possibly leading to the mistreatment of prisoners.
Miller has defended his position saying his recommendations were that Military Police guards helped in "passive intelligence collection," meaning they observed the detainees and passed information about them to interrogators. "There was no recommendation ever by this team that recommended that the MPs become actively involved in interrogation," he told reporters.
But an investigation into the prisoner abuse by Major General Antonio M. Taguba said Miller''s team recommended that guards be "actively engaged in setting the conditions" for interrogations, a policy Taguba said "runs counter to the smooth operation of a detention facility."
complex, where Miller was a former commander.
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1. People entering building where the conference is being held
2. Banner (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''Iraqi Solidarity of Humanitarian Associations and Organisations''''
3. Close up of sign (in English & Arabic) reading: ''''The National Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq''''
4. Various of human rights advocates addressing conference
5. Various of audience
6. Man in audience showing a picture of hand injury, allegedly caused by torture
7. Man in audience reading the organisation''s statement
8. Sign (in English & Arabic) reading: "Prisoners need adequate shelter, clothing, water"
9. Former prisoner addressing conference
10. Sign (in Arabic) reading: '''' Justice to all Iraqi detainees''''
11. Close up pictures of an Iraqi prisoner
12. Sign (in English) reading: ''''Bound prisoners should not be beaten''''
13. Mother of a prisoner showing a photo of her son
14. Mother of a prisoner addressing audience
15. Sign (in Arabic) reading: "NGO press conference on prisoner abuse"
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Former Prisoner:
"Raping is Haram (forbidden in the Islamic religion), they (US soldiers) raped me and other prisoners and I have had psychological problems because of it. God is great on the Americans. Beware Iraqis! I have six children, four daughters and two boys and a wife. The Americans raped me, tortured me and starved me. I have medical reports to prove it.''''
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) (No name given), Mother of Abu Graib prisoner:
''''The prisoners'' photos which I have seen are horrible, really horrible, never witnessed before. I blame the Arab countries for not defending an Arab country. Infidels came here to do this."
18. Wide of conference
STORYLINE:
A number of Iraqi prisoners recently freed from the notorious Abu Graib prison talked in Baghdad on Sunday about the physical and psychological torture they say they faced at the hands of their US army jailers.
In a press conference held by the International Centre of the Occupation Watch and the National Association for the Defence of Human Rights, one of the prisoners claimed US soldiers had raped and tortured him.
A statement issued by former prisoners at the end of the conference called on the international community, the UN Secretary-General, Amnesty International and the Arab League to sue those who had been charged with torture and to release all prisoners.
The statement held US President George Bush and the US'' top administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, responsible for the prisoner abuse.
The new commander of Abu Ghraib prison, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has blamed the mistreatment of prisoners on the previous leadership and on Saturday promised "on my honour" that it would not happen again.
However, in September 2003, Miller made recommendations to Abu Graib''s commanders that Military Police should help gather intelligence from detainees to help interrogations - a policy that investigators have cited as possibly leading to the mistreatment of prisoners.
Miller has defended his position saying his recommendations were that Military Police guards helped in "passive intelligence collection," meaning they observed the detainees and passed information about them to interrogators. "There was no recommendation ever by this team that recommended that the MPs become actively involved in interrogation," he told reporters.
But an investigation into the prisoner abuse by Major General Antonio M. Taguba said Miller''s team recommended that guards be "actively engaged in setting the conditions" for interrogations, a policy Taguba said "runs counter to the smooth operation of a detention facility."
complex, where Miller was a former commander.
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