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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
More... The BBC reports that some doubt has been cast upon the photos that are at least purported to show British troops abusing detained Iraqis. (more...) The sources of the photos stand by their authenticity, however. In related news... Several potential suspects rendered full and complete confessions regarding their personal involvement and the involvement of fellow soldiers in this abuse. Several potential suspects invoked their rights under Article 31 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution….The report says that included amongst the abuses are: • Punching, slapping and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet.Hey, I hear Abner liked it. Military Intelligence (MI) interrogators and other U.S. Government Agency interrogators actively requested that MP guards set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses….Vicious anti-gay attitudes put into action for the good of America! There's more. -It is good to know the White House's priority is minimizing damage to their prestige. -"UN human rights investigator Paul Hunt is calling for an independent inquiry into how the U.S. military's siege of Fallujah has affected civilians," CBC News writes. "Hunt says that while reliable information is difficult to obtain, there are credible claims that U.S. forces have been guilty of serious human rights breaches in their month-long siege of the city." -"A Canadian civilian who claims he was falsely imprisoned, tortured and injured by Army interrogators shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq last year is suing the Army for $350,000," Joseph B. Frazier of the AP writes. Why so little? -" Former Iraqi human rights minister Abdel Basset Turki said US overseer Paul Bremer knew in November that Iraqi prisoners were being abused in US detention centres," writes the AFP. -"Withdrawal"? This isn't the first time I've said this but, the Bush Administration does not care about the well-being of Iraqis. UPDATE: "During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed war crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war. According to the relatively few media reports of what took place there, some 600 Iraqis were killed during these two weeks, among them some 450 elderly people, women and children," Orit Shohat writes in an April 28 Haaretz piece. 2:45 p.m. 05/04/04 |