BBC News: Iraqi forces ‘committing abuse’

Iraqi security forces systematically abuse prisoners, a leading US-based human rights group reports.

Read the Human Rights Watch report here.

New Statesman: Rule of the Death Squads

He had a strong suspicion about who was behind most of these killings, he said. “You can look no further than the Governing Council. There are political parties in this city who are systematically killing people. They are politicians that are backed by the Americans and who arrived to Iraq from exile with a list of their enemies. I’ve seen these lists. They are killing people one by one.”

John Negroponte: US Pro-consul in Iraq.