and a couple more prisoner abuse links

The Seattle Times reports unsealed documents in what amounts to a wrongful imprisonment case and finds more claims of abuse inside Guantanamo.

Documents containing allegations of beatings and psychological abuse of prisoners taken to Guantánamo Bay, along with a first-person account of life there, were unsealed yesterday by a federal judge in Seattle.

"Despite the fact that I cooperated with the Americans," prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan wrote in one of the unsealed affidavits, "I was physically abused."

And the AP reports on a soldier who testifies in the Lynndie England case claims military intelligence officials were to blame.

[Former sergeant Kenneth A.] Davis said he watched Spc. Armin J. Cruz and Spc. Roman Krol, also with the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion, handcuff two naked male detainees to the bars of two facing cells.

Davis said Cruz and Krol then handcuffed the naked men together face-to-face, forcing them to embrace while demanding that they confess to raping a boy in the prison. He said Cruz approached him and asked sarcastically, "Do you think we crossed the line?"

Davis said he replied, "I’m not sure -- you are MI." He said Cruz told him the men were being interrogated and said, "We know what we are doing."

He said Rivera arrived shortly before a third detainee was brought in by Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick, another of the accused military police officers. Then Cruz and Krol threw water on the concrete floor and ordered the detainees to flatten themselves face-down and crawl across the floor with their elbows and forearms, Davis said. When the detainees tried to raise their hips, Cruz and Krol pushed them down, he said