Can this story be true?

From: thebulletin

Author Gordon Thomas calls the US run prisons in Iraq an “American Gulag.” The conditions are totally inhumane. They might have been justified in the initial days with the war was in full swing, but now, months after the US has full control, they are unconscionable. Here are some excerpts from Thomas’ report:

“Each prisoner receives six pints of dank, tepid water a day. He uses it to wash and drink in summer noonday temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius [120 degrees F]. He is not allowed to wash his clothes. He is provided with a small cup of delousing powder to deal with the worst of his body infestation. For the slightest infringement of draconian rules he is forced to sit in painful positions. If he cries out in protest his head is covered with a sack for lengthy periods. This is daily life in America’s shameful Gulag - Camp Cropper on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport.

“Only the International Red Cross are allowed inside. They are forbidden to describe what they see.
But some of its staff have broken ranks - to tell Amnesty International of the shocking conditions the 3000 Iraqi prisoners are held under. None had been charged with any offence. They are listed as suspected ‘looters’ and ‘rioters’. Or listed as ‘loyal to Saddam Hussein’… [T]hey live in tents that are little protection against the blistering sun. They sleep eighty to a tent on wafer thin mats. Each prisoner has a long-handled shovel to dig his own latrine. Some are too old or weak to dig the ordered depth of three feet. Others find they have excavated pits already used. The over-powering stench in this hell-hole is suffocating. [End of Thomas excerpt.]

These are the kinds of stories that make America hated. The mainstream press never prints them and the American public continues to live under the delusion that these kinds of prison conditions only prevail in Communist countries. Sadly, the Red Cross is totally subservient to the political agenda being carried out under Paul Bremer’s control. Nada Doumani, the International Red Cross spokesman in Baghdad said, “We never comment on the conditions at the detention centers.” Why not? Someone has to speak out.   ¶ 6:01 PM