CHICAGO (AFP) ??” A Chicago-based human rights assemblage alerted US officials to the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Bagdad's Abu Ghraib prison month before the scandal broke A staff member of Christian Peacemakers Teams.

CHICAGO (AFP) ??” A Chicago-based human rights assemblage alerted US officials to the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Bagdad's Abu Ghraib prison month before the scandal broke

A staff member of Christian Peacemakers Teams, which had population on the ground in Iraq, briefed middle-level and senior US Army officers forward the abuses in the autumn of 2003 the Chicago Tribune daily said.

Cliff Kindy, who was involved with helping the families of Iraqi detainees track down their lov single in kinds informed officials of widespread abuses including detainees being intimidated by way of dogs, denied water, food, and clothing and access to toilets.

At least single in kind official, Major Simmie Clincy, said the army was aware of the point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds that the group had documented at Abu Ghraib and other detention center in Basra, Ramadi and Tikrit.

In January, the assign places to submitted a report laying not at home the information they had consider probableed from interviews with ...