U.S. TRANSFERS PRISONERS TO ABUSIVE IRAQI REGIME

"The U.S. transfer of Iraqi detainees to national authorities with a long record of human rights abuses could prove illegal under international law... Recently transferred detainees face new dangers in Iraqi custody... (in a) secret Baghdad detention facility that practiced "systematic and routine torture". Of the 300 men transferred to the Al Rusafa Detention Centre from the secret facility in the Old Muthanna airport... (there was) physical evidence like scars, prisoners were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomised. Despite... the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, some Iraqis say they would prefer U.S. detention to national prison..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52831

IRAQI SOLDIER KILLS 2 U.S. TROOPS, WOUNDS 9

"Two U.S. service members were killed and nine others were wounded when a Kurdish Iraqi soldier sprayed them with gunfire at an Iraqi army commando base..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706766.html