NEW YORK, April 12 (Xinhua) — The abuse of detainees by U.S. soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grim legacies of the Iraq War, reported National Public Radio (NPR) on Tuesday.
“Photographs leaked in April 2004, and broadcast from newsrooms around the world, show men stripped naked and leashed like dogs or forced into contorted or sexual positions, with U.S. forces posing gleefully with them,” said the report.
Talib al-Majli, 57, two decades after his release, can recall in detail the torture he says he endured by U.S. soldiers during the 16 months he was held in the notorious prison. “He was never charged with anything — one of the thousands of men swept up in U.S. forces’ house raids following the invasion in 2003, most of them detained by mistake,” according to the report.
Military intelligence officers from U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq later told the…
