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CNN Ethicist questions medical workers' role at Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib should be 'wake-up call for the Western world' [CNN Top Stories]

...An editorial in The Lancet was accompanied by an article that cites government documents and news reports that found medical personnel responsible for treating prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq "failed to protect detainees' human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings."

The Pentagon denied the allegations, saying the article was drawn from "carefully selected media reports" and excerpts of testimony from congressional hearings, "not first-hand investigative work or accounts..."

...The editorial concluded, "Abu Ghraib should serve as an 11th-hour wake-up call for the Western world to rediscover and live by the values enshrined in its international treaties and democratic constitutions."