Iranian border. A warrant was issued for the
commander of the brigade, but it was never followed through with. In November,
the U.S. discovered another secret
prison in the basement of the Interior Ministry’s operations center in Jadriya,
Baghdad. Former Interior Minister Naqib told the New York Times that the
Special Interrogations Unit ran the facility and that it was under the direct
command of Minister Jabr. There were 8-10 other such secret facilities in
Baghdad, which were run
by the Deputy Director of the Interior Ministry’s intelligence directorate
Bashir Nasir al-Wandi who was a Badr member. In Jadriya there were 173
prisoners, many of which had been tortured. A U.S. army adviser to the Wolf
Brigade stated that the unit acted fine when the Americans were around, but
when they weren’t it would kidnap and kill Sunnis and burntheir homes. In
fact, the Brigade once led U.S. advisers into an ambush. In September 2006 an
inspection of the Site
4 prison in eastern Baghdad found that the Wolf Brigade was torturing many
of the 1,400 prisoners there. The commanding General Mahid al-Gharawi was charged
with abuse afterward, but the case against him fell apart when witnesses
recanted their testimony. Two months later a National Police unit raided the
Higher Education Ministry and took away 159 people. The incident was considered
a sectarian attack, as the commandos had become the National Police and the
Iraqi Accordance Front, the main Sunni party in the government, ran the
ministry. Finally, in March 2007 the National Police blocked off an area of
eastern Baghdad and kidnapped five British security guards. Both Premiers
Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Nouri al-Maliki denied that the commandos or