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Planning For Detainees Faulted

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by admin | July 9, 2005 at 1:14 pm UTC

A partially censored 215-page report by an army surgeon general tells that some medical personnel had to reuse needles and other medical supplies and did not receive guidance on how to treat detainees captured during the Iraq war.

The report also details alleged abuses. A soldier reported treating two detainees who had burns from being transported on a Humvee’s hot surfaces, and others reported soldiers keeping psychotic detainees in hot metal containers as temperatures rose past 130 degrees.

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