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<DIV class=articleTitle><STRONG>Middle East War: U.S. Doctors Approved
Torture and Denied Medical Care to Captives</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV class=articleAuthorName>by Sherwood Ross</DIV><BR></TD></TR>
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lang=FR-CA>American doctors in the Middle East routinely approved the
torture of captured suspects and denied them critical medications such as
insulin, sometimes with lethal consequences, according to a documented
report published in the “Utne Reader.” </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>In Dec., 2002, Defense Secy. Donald Rumsfeld issued a directive
allowing interrogators to withhold medical care in nonemergency situations
so that “men with injuries including gunshot wounds were denied treatment
as a way to make them talk,” writes author Justine Sharrock. Although the
directive was soon revoked, “the practice continued,” she said.
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lang=FR-CA>Interrogations conducted at the infamous Abu Ghraib
correctional facility in Baghdad had to be preapproved by a physician and
psychiatrist, and the CIA got like orders for the punishments it inflicted
at its sites. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>Sharrock quotes medic Andrew Duffy of the 134th medical company
of the Iowa National Guard who told her the attitude of Abu Ghraib’s
medical officers toward prisoners was “screw these guys” and who said he
was ridiculed for trying to save one man’s life using CPR. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>Long after the world-shaking Abu Ghraib photos were published
in 2004 and the Pentagon vowed to stop abusing prisoners, “men were still
being strapped into restraint chairs and left in the sun for hours or
locked in cells too small to lie down in,” Sharrock writes. “The medics
regularly found prisoners dehydrated, wrists bloody from overtight
handcuffs, ankles swollen from forced standing, joints dislocated from
stress positions.” (Abu Ghraib’s former commandant Gen. Janis Karpinski
once estimated 90% of the prisoners were innocent.) </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>In one instance involving detainee No. 173379 who appeared to
need an insulin injection, medics were told to inject the man instead with
saline solution using a 14-gauge needle more than two millimeters in
diameter of the sort that was used as punishment or to discourage
prisoners from seeking care, MP’s doused him with pepper spray and stuck
him in a tiny cell in the scorching heat, Sharrock writes, and he died the
next day. Duffy’s written complaint to his supervising captain
disappeared. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>Pentagon top health official doctor William Winkenwerder Jr. in
2005 allowed military physicians to participate in torture and share
medical records with interrogators so long as a detainee wasn’t officially
their patient, Sharrock writes. Winkenwerder, she adds, got an award from
the American Medical Assn.(AMA) that year for outstanding contributions
“to the betterment of the public health.” The AMA has refused to condemn
Pentagon and CIA torture practices and made no response when in Feb.,
2006, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights condemned U.S. doctors for
having “systematically” participated in detainee abuse. Bioethicist
Steven Miles of the University of Minnesota Medical School said the U.N.
condemnation should have been “a call to arms” yet “the AMA said nothing.”
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lang=FR-CA>Sharrock said none of the AMA’s top officials she contacted
would comment on her story. Nor has any State licensing board, which have
the authority to suspend licenses, “ever disciplined a doctor for
assisting in military torture. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA>As for the American Psychiatric Assn., in May, 2006, its
President Steven Sharfstein noted that psychiatrists “wouldn’t get into
trouble” if they heeded military orders over the APA’s advice that members
should not directly assist in interrogations, which he added should not be
considered “an ethical rule,” Sharrock writes. Her Utne Reader article was
first published in Mother Jones magazine. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=FR-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=justify><SPAN
lang=FR-CA><BR><EM>Award-winning journalist <STRONG>Sherwood Ross</STRONG>
formerly reported for wire services and major dailies, including the Miami
Herald and New York Herald-Tribune. Reach him at </EM><A
href="http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sherwoodross10@gmail.com"
target=_blank><EM>sherwoodross10@gmail.com</EM></A></SPAN></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>