One of the accused soldiers, Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick, posed for a photograph while sitting on the back of a prisoner. He told CBS they also sicced dogs on defenseless prisoners and that his superiors turned a blind eye to what they were doing."We had no support, no training whatsoever, and I kept asking my chain of command for certain things, rules and regulations, and it just wasn't happening," he said. In an E-mail to his family, Frederick bragged about "breaking" Iraqi prisoners."We helped getting them to talk with the way we handle them," he wrote. "We've had a very high rate with our styles of getting them to break; they usually end up breaking within hours."
The New Yorker said it had obtained a 53-page, internal U.S. military report into alleged abuses at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. In an article posted on its Web site on Saturday, the magazine said the report had been authorized by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. officer in Iraq (news - web sites), and was completed in February. The May 10 issue of the magazine goes on sale on Monday. The army report listed abuses such as "breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; ... beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick."
damn that's sick
