US Troops Allegedly Killed Detainees

[babylonsister]

US Troops Allegedly Killed Detainees
by Julian E. Barnes and Kimi Yoshino


WASHINGTON - U.S. Army officials are investigating allegations that American soldiers killed several detainees after they were captured on a battlefield in southwest Baghdad last year, officials said Tuesday.

Military officials said the incident under review took place about six months ago in the Rasheed district and involved soldiers with the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. The brigade, which is based in Germany, was deployed to Iraq from September 2006 to November 2007.

The detainees allegedly were killed at the point of capture and never taken to a U.S. or Iraqi base for questioning, said Paul Boyce, a U.S. Army spokesman. The military did not reveal how many soldiers may have been involved, how many detainees may have died or who made the allegations. Frequently, such allegations surface months after an incident, when soldiers come forward or talk among themselves.

Soldiers from at least one company of the 2nd Brigade were questioned by investigators last week in Germany. The inquiry is being led by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6736/

[rubberducky]

1. Our "Hero`s" winning hearts and minds.

I`m so sick of the glorification of the military.

[Karenina]

2. An everyday occurrence...

[KeineAhnung]

9. The military kills detainees...

at the point of capture every day? Do you have any reference for that?

[Karenina]

16. Everyday interaction with Iraqi expats

in my community, living their everyday lives outside the "occupation zone," forever wounded...

[Echo In Light]

12. Some links: Convoy of Death

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death
by Christopher Deliso
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=3209

"Did U.S. Forces Allow a Massacre of 3,000 Taliban Prisoners to Occur?" BuzzFlash asks Jamie Doran, Producer-Director of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death"
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/09/23_doran.html

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOLGO72Kr2w&feature=related

US war crime in Afghanistan: Hundreds of prisoners of war slaughtered at Mazar-i-Sharif
By the Editorial Board 27 November 2001
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n27.shtml

[Solly Mack]

3. I watched part of a briefing today regarding this

Naturally the Bush-bot Pentagon spokesperson wasn't very forthcoming

Killing POWs is a war crime. Period. NO debate. No "IFs" about it. War crime.

[malaise]

4. The invasion, occupation and every death

since are all war crimes.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yep

[gratuitous]

5. Bush will just make an ex post facto declaration

The victims were, uhm, er, detainees, yeah, that's the ticket. And see, detainees don't have any rights. You can just cut 'em down like so many blades of grass under the scythe. Because they might, uh, you know, commit terrorist acts or something, and nobody can say for sure they wouldn't, now could they? So you just want these brutal, bloodthirsty detainees to slip their bonds, fly to America and kill us all in our beds, don't you? America hater!

[Solly Mack]

7. Yep..that's the usual lie they tell

the spokesperson, Geoff Morrell, was basically blowing the reporters off and suggesting they ask CID. Like they could just go to CID and ask..

[genie_weenie]

8. Too bad, it wasn't done by Blackwater, err, Agents

then they could have gotten immunity and sold their story for a million bucks!

[Name removed]

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[L. Coyote]

11. K & R & Impeach two too

[Echo In Light]

13. Kick

[pleah]

14. They are being brain washed with Godless Warmongering Bastards

take no prisoners attitude. To hell with the law or with what is the right thing to do. OVER 1,000,000 DEAD IRAQIS.

[krkaufman]

15. That's nuttin. Try this on for size...

Convoy of Death (50min)