NY Times reports today that the Iraqi government is cracking down on torture in its prison system. (Click here to read: Iraqi Interior Ministry Accuses 55 Employees of Rights Abuses at Prison)
The security forces of the Shiite-led Interior Ministry have long been accused of operating torture chambers inside its detention centers, and the charges were the first against the ministry’s employees in connection with such allegations, according to General Khalaf. Eighteen of the accused employees are officers, he said.
The task of building a democracy and stablizing this country is much harder than Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the gang want to admit. And the problem isn’t terrorists…it’s the fundamental hatreds between the religious sects.