Defense rests in Iraq abuse trial of US officer-He abused the guy to death

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2010602.htm

FORT CARSON, Colo., Jan 20 (Reuters) - Lawyers for an Army officer charged with killing an Iraqi general during an interrogation rested their case on Friday after a defense witness said the Army had not issued clear rules at the time on interrogation techniques.

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. is accused of asphyxiating Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush by placing him head-first in a sleeping bag while covering his mouth and straddling his chest during an interrogation in Iraq in November 2003.

Intelligence officer Maj. Robert Short testified on the fifth day of Welshofer's court-martial that the Army had not given interrogators guidance on acceptable techniques until after Mowhoush's death.

Short told the six-person jury that Mowhoush was the head of the insurgency in Al Qaim, a town near the Syrian border.

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1. WTF!!! he needed "guidelines" to tell him

it ain't acceptable to stuff some dude in a sleeping bag head first with his mouth covered while sittin on his chest. If this guy isn't convicted of murder he ought to be arrested for terminal fuckin stupidity. Don't Amurcans realize that shit like this makes us look no better than Hussein?