ACLU releases Iraq prisoner abuse report documents

By Christine KearneyThu Sep 15,10:21 PM ET

Some U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq interrogated prisoners "using techniques they literally remembered from the movies," according to documents from a U.S. military report released by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The civil rights group released on Thursday 1,800 pages of documents obtained from the government as part of a federal lawsuit seeking information on the treatment of U.S.-held detainees.

The U.S. military was widely criticized after pictures of guards abusing detainees in Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad were made public in April 2004.

ACLU said the documents, taken from interviews conducted for a 2004 investigation by Lt. Gen. Paul Mikolashek, the Army's inspector general, contradict the investigation's findings that there were no systematic failures that led to detainee abuse.