UK Admits to Torturing Nine Iraqi Prisoners, Beating One to Death

[L. Coyote]

UK Admits to Torturing Iraqi Prisoners
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/28/headlines

Meanwhile, the British government has admitted its forces tortured nine Iraqi prisoners in 2003. The admission could lead to compensation payments to the eight surviving prisoners and the family of the ninth, who died from beatings by British jailers. The slain victim, Iraqi hotel worker Baha Musa, suffered ninety-three injuries to his body. Musa was twenty-six years old and the father of two children. His wife had died just two months earlier

[Echo In Light]

1. Wow, beating, torturing and killing helpless, bound families. BRAVE HEROES!

What big, strapping, manly men they are, beating, torturing and killing helpless, bound families like that in the name of freedom.

[L. Coyote]

2. This is the real MELTDOWN! And, how more enemies are made.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R, yep, it's not exactly from the book "How to Win Friends & Influence People"

[L. Coyote]

4. visibility kick

[L. Coyote]

11. "

[G_j]

5. kick

and a sad Rec

[baby_mouse]

6. Kick from across the pond. NT

[malaise]

7. K & R

How many Iraqis have they murdered?

[madokie]

8. I believe the number would be expressed in the hundreds of thousands

Would this be war crimes I ask

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Perhaps we will see a trial soon

don't hold my breath on this... I've long stopped holding my breath over 1984 and Central America

[L. Coyote]

10. Had we put them in jail during Iran_Contra, how many live would have been saved?

There are consequences to allowing criminals to return to power.

This time, we need to do it right.

[L. Coyote]

12. visibility kick

[librechik]

13. back to their old habits

anybody watching The Tudors? Last week Henry had somebody boiled to death. And more recently of course, the Brits are well known for their kind treatment of IRA prisoners.

[Kip Humphrey]

14. Our staunchest ally!

[Karenina]

15. Have the children died yet?

At least the Brits admit (5 years later) what they did. The Amis deny, spin and continue bidness as usual.