"Interrogators had used threats and acts of anal rape to induce confessions andhad forced juveniles to fellate them during interrogations."The above is a quote from a confidential State Department cable released byWikiLeaks. The leaked document outlines the outcome of an inspection of adetention facility by US and Iraqi officials, referred to in the cable only as“Site 4″, in Iraq.The inspection found that more than 1,400 detainees were held in the facilityin what the inspectors called “squalid, cramped conditions“. Manydetainees were found to have been detained illegally, including 37 illegallyheld juveniles.Prisoners displayed signs of torture, including bruising, broken bones andlash marks. Many reported to have been hung by handcuffs from a hook in theceiling, hoisted with a chain-and-pulley system ordinarily used for liftingvehicles, and beaten on the soles of their feet and their buttocks. Floorunderneath the pulley was, according to the document, stained with bloodspots.The documents further states that anal rape and sexual abuse, primarily ofteenagers were widespread.Discovery of the apparent abuse did not lead to criminal investigations ofthe perpetrators. To the contrary, much of the mistreatment was permitted tocontinue.The prison was “well over acceptable capacity“, leaving detaineeswith insufficient space to lie down, poor air circulation, overflowing toilets,and sewage spills into cellblocks. Due to such unsanitary conditions and limitedwater supply, the detainees suffered “from lice, scabies, andinfections“.Iraqi Ministry of Interior justified the abuses with the “few bad apples”excuse and maintained that only three interrogators abused their prisoners. TheAmbassador who wrote the cable dismissed these claims as absurd and made strictrecommendations to release illegally held detainees and initiate criminalinvestigations against all suspected abusers.Ministry of Interior then issued 50 arrest warrants, but still only executedthree of them. Thus far. No trials were held for the suspects.This is not the first WikiLeaks cable that exposed prisoner torture and rapeby US and US puppet groups. Details are now known of torture at Guantanamo, AbuGhraib and Bagram, as well as the rendition sites detainees were sent to. Yet westill can only guess the full extent of the abuse.Full text of leaked cable can be found on the following link: