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11/18/2005:

"'torture prison is tip of the iceberg'"

"Sunni groups have been trying to present evidence - photographs, videos and testimony - for months, but they have only been taken seriously now that the Americans have become involved.

"Most of the press today have run the photographs [of the abused prisoners]. They have been in circulation for some time, but it is only now that they are being widely published.

"I've been collecting testimony today from people who have been held in all sorts of centres: interestingly, none of them was held in the Jadriya prison - they were all held in other places, which have apparently not been declared. It suggests that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

"This is going to do nothing to calm the tensions between the ethnic groups. We have always laboured under the impression - which now turns out to be a myth - that the Shia groups have been restrained in the face of provocation from the Sunni community.

"Now it has become much more publicly clear that the Shia have been waging their own form of civil war through their security services and death squads.
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