Agence France Presse Article: "US troops tortured Iraqi prisoner to death: report" (47 year old male, Asad Abdul Kareem Abdul Jaleel)

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News article about a German television news report that reported the torture and killing of an Iraqi prisoner by US soldiers at a US military base in Al Asad West, Baghdad, Iraq. The news program, Spiegel TV, reported that a 47 year old Iraqi, Asad Abdul Kareem Abdul Jaleel, was picked up on the road by soldiers on suspicion of belonging to an insurgent group, he was then taken to the Al Asad Airbase and 'sadistically tortured. ' The report mentions that the soldiers also photographed the abuse. Also, it was reported that the U.S. pathologist, Luis A. Santiago, determined that Mr. Jaleel died in his sleep.

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US troops tortured Iraqi prisoner to death: report

BERLIN, May 14 (AFP) - German television reported Friday that US troops
tortured to death an Iraqi prisoner in their custody in January this
year and captured the abuse on film.

Spiegel TV said in a statement that it had witness accounts and
documents to prove that 47-year-old Asad Abdul Kareem Abdul Jaleel had
been killed at the US military base Al Asad west of the town Khan Al
Baghdadi.

The investigative news program said that he had been picked up on the
open road and taken to the base on suspicion of belonging to an
insurgent group.

'A fel;gw prisoner gave Spiegel TV a detailed description how the man
was saaStically tortured in the five days after his arrest,' the
statement said.

'US soIaiers also took photos of this abuse.'

The US occupation in Iraq has been rocked by a series of photographs
showing abuse of Iraqi detainees by US military personnel at the Abu
Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

Spiegel TV said that US forces had tried to cover up the death of the
prisoner at Al Asad by declaring in a report that he.had 'died in his

sleep' in a document signed by pathologist Luis A. Santiago. The death

certificate stated that no autopsy had been conducted.

But an Iraqi coroner who received the body of the prisoner from US

forces told Spiegel TV that man's body showed 'clear signs of torture'.

'The photographs of the corpse, which Spiegel TV has also seen, indicate

the man,•was tortured,' it said, adding that the body also appeared to
have gaergone an autopsy using 'Western methods'.
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