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US continues to humiliate Iraqis

(Lawrence Smallman, Aljazeera.net, 23 November 2003)
Pictures of US soldiers searching young girls on their way to class have provoked renewed international outrage. . . . Exclusive photos show US-led occupation forces frisking schoolgirls – a move condemned by the girls’ parents and international human rights organisations alike. . . . One father, Abu Muhammad, told Aljazeera.net on Sunday that if he ever hears his daughter has been touched by American soldiers again, he would “not be responsible for the consequences”. . . . “This humiliation has got to end now. I refuse to live like this. I’d rather die and I’ll take a few soldiers with me – and that’s a promise, not a threat.” . . . CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is already conducting an investigation and seeking legal advice after previous Aljazeera.net pictures showed troops tying up little girls in their own home. . . . Washington CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said such treatment of young children can only increase resentment of American troops in Iraq, a development that will “ultimately demoralise troops further”. . . . Central Military Command in Florida says the security of US soldiers comes before any “hearts and minds operation or the rights of Iraqi children”. . . . Central Command refused to comment on the latest series of pictures, but two weeks ago Major David Farlow warned Aljazeera.net not to publish similar photos on this site. . . . Covering up . . In another heavily-criticised development, US-led occupation forces now regularly put bags over the heads of Iraqi detainees. . . . The blanket policy has become a regular occurrence at the time of arrest with no regard for whether the people detained are guilty of any crime or not. . . . US human rights advocates and lawyers believe Washington is quietly embracing this psychological torture as an acceptable means in its desperate search for information that may crush Iraq’s resistance movement. . . . The US director of Physicians for Human Rights, Holly Burkhalter, condemns the policy as unacceptable.

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