British Soldier Kept Abuse Diary of Iraqi Prisoners

[kpete]

British Soldier Kept Abuse Diary of Iraqi Prisoners
By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 01:33:36 PM EST
The UK's Timesonline reports:

A diary that appeared to catalogue violent attacks against Iraqi detainees was read out at the court martial of seven British soldiers accused of inhumane treatment towards prisoners today.

The journal was maintained by a former private, Stuart Mackenzie.

... Mr Mackenzie described attacks on Iraqi prisoners, some of whom were dubbed "Ali Babas" in the accounts. The court was told that Mr Mackenzie's unit of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment became known as "the grim reapers", because it was the first to kill an Iraqi. Julian Knowles, defending Corporal Payne, read sections of the diary to the court.

How bad are some of the entries? Read on.

"The fat bastard who kept taking off his hood and escaping from his plasticuffs got put in another room. He resisted and he stopped breathing, then we could not revive him. What a shame," he wrote.

And,

In July 2003, he wrote: "A big Iraqi punched Mr Rogers and got filled in immediately by about 10 of us. He was battered from head to toe so we beat let him go instead of arresting him."

...In separate accounts in the summer of 2003, Mr Mackenzie described attacking "Ali Babas": "Beat them up with sticks and filmed it. A good day so far," he wrote in July. Two months later, he wrote of a beating in which detainees suffered a punctured lung and broken fingers.

more at:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/11/2/143336/726
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2434406,00.html

[democrank]

1. Sick.

What a way to "spread freedom."

[acmavm]

2. Look in the mirror soldier. You're worse than anything that they

call the 'insurgents'. You were in their country illegally, you killed whole families, and for sport you tortured others.

You are a rat bastard and evil evil evil to the core. Because you chose to do this. You had a decision to make, and you made it.