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Iraqi General Muntadher al-Samari worked with them. "I never saw them apart in the 40 or 50 times I saw them inside the detention centers," he said."They knew everything that was going on there - the torture, the most horrible kinds of torture."
Detention centers had interrogation committees.
"Each one was made up of an intelligence officer and eight interrogators," said al-Samari.
"This committee (used) all means of torture to make the detainee confess like using electricity or hanging him upside down, pulling out their nails, and beating them on sensitive parts."
Petraeus, Steele and Coffman knew everything going on. Torture was systematic and brutal.
"I remember a 14-year-old who was tied to one of the library's columns. And he was tied up, with his legs above his head. Tied up. His whole body was blue because of the impact of the cables with which he had been beaten."
New York Times photographer Gilles Peress visited a commando center. He met Steele in Samarra. "We were in a room in the library interviewing Steele, and I'm looking around I see blood everywhere," he said.
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