Soldiers Charged in Iraqi General's Death

[Rose Siding]

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Four soldiers were charged with murder Monday in the asphyxiation death of an Iraqi general during questioning in Iraq last fall.

Chief Warrant Officers Jefferson L. Williams and Lewis E. Welshofer Jr., Sgt. 1st Class William J. Sommer and Spc. Jerry L. Loper could get life in prison without parole if convicted in the Nov. 26 death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, 57, at Qaim, Iraq.

The Army has said Welshover was part of a two-person interrogation team that questioned Mowhoush. In May, the Army said the Iraqi general was asphyxiated by chest compression and smothering.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-soldiers-charged,0,5669933.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[mike_c]

1. he was tortured to death by American interrogators....

Welcome to the fascist wet dream.

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[UpInArms]

3. here's what the Pentagon originally stated:

Take the case of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, the former chief of Iraqi air defenses, who died Nov. 26 at a detention facility at Al Qaim, northwest of Baghdad. After his death the Pentagon released a statement reporting that "it appeared Mowhoush died of natural causes." That was a lie. In fact, according to an autopsy report, Gen. Mowhoush died of "asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression." According to documents first obtained by the Denver Post, two soldiers slid a sleeping bag over him and rolled him repeatedly from his back to his stomach; one then sat on his chest and covered his mouth. Only after the Denver Post's report last week did the Pentagon acknowledge the truth and say that a homicide investigation was underway.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61941-2004May27.html

[JoFerret]

4. Thanks for that reminder

If they are guilty I hope they get a nice long time for reflection.

[UpInArms]

5. someday the truth will rise from the ashes

that our military is creating in the sands of the ME.

The wedding parties, the children, the innocence destroyed by bombs and bullets and madness.

:cry:

[Disturbed]

6. Torture and Death.

The tools of Neo Fascists.

[TahitiNut]

7. So, who in the Pentagon will be charged with obstruction of justice?

Who, in the chain of comand, will be charged with complicity in this murder? :eyes:

I guess this is the season for fall guys. :shrug: