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Some "Apparently" Tortured Detainees Found
The Bush administration found the reports troubling, "We don't practice torture, and we don't believe that others should practice torture?"
Iraq detainees 'found starving'
Iraq's government says it has begun an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 170 detainees held by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad.
FLASHBACK: US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
A US military spokesman in Baghdad denied the allegations.
Pentagon admits using incendiary shells in Iraq but denies hitting civilians
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/11/15/1308376-ap.html
"How do you know you did not hit civilians with it?"
"If they're dead, they are no longer civilians."
The Pentagon says that troops fighting in Iraq last year used a chemical called white phosphorus in the assault on Falluja.
Despite insisting previously that the substance had not been used during the offensive, lieutenant-colonel Barry Venable has admitted that it was used to flush out enemy combatants in the insurgent stronghold.
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