Pattern Cited in Killings of Civilians by U.S.

[ProSense]

Pattern Cited in Killings of Civilians by U.S.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 4, 2007

Newly released documents regarding crimes committed by United States soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.

The documents, released today by the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a lawsuit, total nearly 10,000 pages of courts-martial summaries, transcripts and military investigative reports about 22 cases. They show repeated examples of troops believing they were within the law when they killed local citizens.

The killings include the drowning of a man troops pushed from a bridge into the Tigris River as punishment for breaking curfew, and the suffocation during interrogation of a former Iraqi general believed to be helping insurgents.

In the suffocation, soldiers covered the man’s head with a sleeping bag, then wrapped his neck with an electrical cord for a “stress position” they said was an approved technique.

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[ProSense]

1. A definite sign of

f'd up leadership and the chaos in Iraq.

[RC]

2. I can hardly wait for the War Crime trials.

But I'm afraid that will be a long time acoming.

[fed-up]

3. b*llsh*t-"repeated examples of troops believing they were within the law"

How on earth can they believe that drowning, suffocating, strangling a civilian is within the law???

[Blashyrkh]

5. It's all in the "interpretation".

[John Q. Citizen]

8. The leadership is at fault mostly.

[WhiteTara]

4. gosh, I can hardly wait for those

soldiers to come home. I'll bet there will be a big spike in killings here when the soldiers do all return.

[Amonester]

6. You may have a point...

Keep 'em there!

Better yet: send them all to Iranius!

Go bu$che/chainy!!


mmm... methinks just reading that op got me loosing it all of a sudden... (thinking: "from where do all these stupid? or just despicable war criminals ever came down to this sorry planet?)

I WANT UFOS TO COME DOWN AND TAKE ME UP ANYWHERE BUT HERE NOW!!

:crazy: :silly: :hangover: :hurts: :nuke: :scared: :grr: :yoiks:

[Swamp Rat]

7. Be careful what you ask for.

:yoiks:

[Amonester]

9. You just helped me recover a bit here... Thank you.

I will only go up there if they have a way to connect to DU, somehow.

Go (to hell) bu$che/chainy!!