..Bet this soldier’s life imprisonment will be spent in a place an awfully different place than the place they keep the detainees.. with much better conditions - which wouldn’t take much - warm food for instance - not being hung by the wrists, that sort of thing.. go figure..
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
OCEANSIDE, Calif. [...]
I’d sure like to see our innocent detainees released as easily……
Nick Fiske at 11:13 AM ET
[JURIST] A US district court judge Thursday released two US Marines who had previously been jailed for refusing to testify about the deaths of Iraqi detainees during the November 2004 offensive [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in Fallujah [USMC timeline; JURIST [...]
In 2007 elite U. S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver
U.S. Army Sgt. Evan Vela in Baghdad, Iraq, on Feb. 10, 2008.
Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle [...]
Surely you remember The Jetsons. I found this rather interesting:
Marine to stand trial over detainee killing in Iraq
British defense secretary announces public inquiry into Iraqi detainee death
One day apart. What baffles me is what about the thousands of other non-combatants were murdered by who knows how many other soldiers on both the US [...]
WASHINGTON — The commanding general in Iraq for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says outright in his new memoir that the military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan, that the military had a plan to kill off Moqtada al-Sadr’s deputies as early as March 2003 and that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tried to usurp command for [...]
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Tony Diaz, a former military-police sergeant who served at Abu Ghraib, stares into Errol Morris’ camera and speaks in baffled tones about being called into a shower room at that notorious Baghdad prison where CIA interrogators were beating an Iraqi detainee to death. Diaz says he did not participate in [...]
Associated Press
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) A hearing officer is recommending a court-martial for a Camp Pendleton Marine charged with murdering an Iraqi detainee captured during fierce fighting in Fallujah.
The officer said in his findings earlier this week that there is sufficient evidence against Sergeant Jermaine Nelson to order him to trial.
Nelson is one of [...]
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents today from the Department of Defense confirming the military’s use of unlawful interrogation methods on detainees held in U. S. custody in Afghanistan. The documents from the military’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID), obtained as a result of the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, [...]
By Phil Villarreal
A brutal, uncompromising exposé on sadistic American interrogation practices in the war on terror, the best-documentary Oscar winner “Taxi to the Dark Side” is tough to watch.
Showing none of the restraint for gory detail that network news displayed when the stories broke, Alex Gibney (”Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) directs and [...]
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