(This was referred to in Maureen Dowd's NY Times op-ed column today.)
The Toronto Star May 6, 2004 Thursday
Yesterday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's human rights envoy to Iraq said U.S. soldiers detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year, placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey.
The envoy, MP Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed they were true. During five visits to Iraq in the last 18 months, Clwyd said, she stopped at British and U.S. jails, including Abu Ghraib, and questioned everyone she could about the woman's claims.
"She was held for about six weeks without charge," the envoy told London's Evening Standard newspaper. "During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back."
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