In other Iraq news, reports are emerging out of the northern city of Mosul that US troops are torturing Iraqi detainees there. British attorney Phil Shiner said he has statements from two Iraqis who said they were * hooded, stripped naked, beaten unconscious and doused with cold water*. One was threatened with sexual assault. The men were held at a jail nicknamed “the disco” because troops force detainees to listen to western music at near deafening levels. According to Reuters this marks the first reports of torture in Mosul. One of the victims of the abuse has been described as an Iraqi attorney who helped found the Islamic Organization for Human Rights. He was arrested after he had been investigating reports of abuse in Mosul. The British attorney Shiner said, “The only reason he was detained was that he was working on documenting these cases of torture, at this prison and the Americans then went and detained him.”