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Amnesty has collected a “tip of the iceberg” swathe of complaints concerning Pentagon troops’ human rights abuses in Iraq.
The allegations include the shooting of a 12-year-old boy during house-to-house searches by US troops, and reports of Iraqis detained by coalition forces being subjected to torture. In many cases, it is alleged that people have been snatched from the street without warning and denied access to relatives and lawyers while in jail – a “strong echo” of methods used by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
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