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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0820-07.htm
"death certificates of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq were falsified" and medical investigators "routinely" attributed deaths to natural causes when proof of abuse was glaring.
"In one example, soldiers tied a beaten detainee to the top of his cell door and gagged him," Miles writes, citing an Abu Ghraib case noted by New York-based Human Rights Watch.
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/
"The death certificate indicated that he died of `natural causes ... during his sleep.' After news media coverage, the Pentagon revised the certificate to say that the death was a `homicide' caused by `blunt force injuries and asphyxia.'"
"death certificates of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq were falsified" and medical investigators "routinely" attributed deaths to natural causes when proof of abuse was glaring.
"In one example, soldiers tied a beaten detainee to the top of his cell door and gagged him," Miles writes, citing an Abu Ghraib case noted by New York-based Human Rights Watch.
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/
"The death certificate indicated that he died of `natural causes ... during his sleep.' After news media coverage, the Pentagon revised the certificate to say that the death was a `homicide' caused by `blunt force injuries and asphyxia.'"
