Iraqi government acknowledges torture of detainees

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=16444
"Iraq's government acknowledged that some of its new security forces could be resorting to the sort of torture and abuses of detainees seen under Saddam Hussein as they struggle to put down Sunni insurgents."
"These things happen..." Laith Kubba said in a news briefing after a report in Britain's Observer newspaper detailed allegations of death squads and secret torture centers.

Of course they do - Vox.