Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing starts today

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At one stage they are recorded as threatening to turn over suspects being interrogated to the Wolf Brigade, a feared police commando group trained by the Americans and widely accused of torturing and even killing detainees.

At other times detainees were physically handed over and, according to a New York Times journalist, US troops stood by as they were tortured. An interview by the journalist Peter Maass with the Wolf Brigade’s American military adviser, Col James Steele, was interrupted by screams, he reported.

Col. Steele was earlier in his career implicated in the Iran-Contra affair and was also a military adviser in El Salvador at a time when the government was accused of running paramilitary death squads.

Axé.

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