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Source: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-15/us-says-europeans-tortured-by-assads-death-machine
U.S. Says Europeans Tortured by Assad's Death Machine
(Bloomberg) Josh Rogin - The State Department's ambassador at large for war crimes, Stephen Rapp, said in an interview that up to 10 European citizens have been tortured and killed while in the custody of the Syrian regime and that evidence of their deaths could be used for war crimes prosecutions against Bashar al-Assad in several European countries. A newly completed FBI analysis of 27,000 photographs taken by a military police photographer in the Syrian Army and smuggled out of Syria shows evidence of the torture and murder of over 11,000 civilians in custody. Those who provided the photos hope that European countries will see their citizens' murders as further evidence that the West must reject any notion of allowing the Assad regime to remain in power or being a de facto partner with the West against extremist groups such as the Islamic State. More than 150,000 civilians are still being held in Assad's jails.