Wheee! British trained Iraqi police kill people with drills

[Cain]

Can't wait till they bring this technique back to the homeland:

British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

John Reid, the Secretary of State for Defence, admits that he knows of "alleged deaths in custody" and other "serious prisoner abuse" at al-Jamiyat police station, which was reopened by Britain after the war.

Militia-dominated police, who were recruited by Britain, are believed to have tortured at least two men to death in the station. Their bodies were later found with drill holes to their arms, legs and skulls.

The victims were suspected of collaborating with coalition forces, according to intelligence reports. Despite being pressed "very hard" by Britain, however, the Iraqi authorities in Basra are failing to even investigate incidents of torture and murder by police, ministers admit.

The disclosure drags Britain firmly into the growing scandal of officially condoned killings, torture and disappearances in Iraq. More than 170 starving and tortured prisoners were discovered last week in an Interior Ministry bunker in Baghdad.

American troops who uncovered the secret torture chamber are also said to have discovered mutilated corpses, several bearing drill marks

But wait, it gets better!

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LA23Ak02.html

The kerfuffle triggered in Iraq by a government panel's recent disqualification of over 500 candidates from the parliamentary elections in March has engendered a new crisis that threatens to unravel delicate national reconciliation and stabilization goals.

Despite the immediate intervention of United States Vice President Joseph Biden with a peacemaking solution that would allow all the candidates under the scanner to contest the elections and narrow the investigation to victorious ones after the results, the bad blood from the 2005 elections lends a foul air to the whole fracas.

The controversial decision by the Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC) has sent shivers down the spines of Iraq's Sunni minority community, which fears that its leaders have been deliberately blacklisted to deepen a majoritarian Shi'ite-dominated polity. Among the prominent Sunni politicians who will be barred by the commission's ruling are Saleh al-Mutlaq, a leading light of the secular Iraqiya bloc that is the main competitor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite State of Law coalition.

Boy, it sure is a good thing we overthrew Saddam.  Or else people might be living under a dictatorial government that kills and tortures with impunity or something.

[Requia ☣]

It's about time we finally started catching up to the terrorists in torture methods.

Sloppy though, they can't make up evidence for you if they die.  Start with the kneecaps next time.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's about time we finally started catching up to the terrorists in torture methods.

Well, that excuses everything.