August 21, 2004

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  Professor Accuses Doctors in Iraq Abuse

  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  Fri Aug 20, 1:11 PM ET

  
  

  By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer
  

  LONDON - In a scathing analysis of the behavior of military doctors, nurses and medics, University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles calls for a reform of military medicine and an official investigation into the role played by physicians and other medical staff in the torture scandal.

  
  

  
  

  He cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides, hid evidence of beatings and revived a prisoner so he could be further tortured. No reports of abuses were initiated by medical personnel until the official investigation into Abu Ghraib began, he found.
  

  
  

  "The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," Miles said in this week's edition of Lancet. "Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib."
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  Report Expected To Blame Dozens For Iraq Prisoner Abuse

  
  

  
  

  POSTED: 7:53 am EDT August 19, 2004

  
  

  
  

  WASHINGTON -- An Army investigation into the abuse of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will blame two dozen people, a senior defense official said Wednesday. 

  
  

  The New York Times said the inquiry found no evidence of direct blame above the rank of the colonel who commanded the military intelligence unit at the prison.
  

   Senior officers in Baghdad and in Washington were not found to have played a role in ordering or allowing the abuse. 'There was no direct policy directives out of the Pentagon that caused this,' said an unidentified official quoted by the Times.
  

   

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