New problems at Abu Ghraib
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Inmates at Abu Ghraib said that torture has resumed there since the U.S. handed control of the prison to Iraq’s Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry last week. As soon as the Iraqis assumed formal control of Abu Ghraib, the London Sunday Telegraph reported, they transferred dozens of terrorist suspects from the Interior Ministry prison in Jadriyah, where U.S. troops discovered 169 tortured prisoners last year. A witness who entered the prison said the inmates were squeezed into overcrowded cells that stank of excrement, and were being fed only rice and water. Screams came from the blocks where terrorist suspects were held. “The Americans were better than the Iraqis,” said inmate Khalid Alaani, a Sunni held on suspicion of terrorism. “They treated us better.”
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