ah! i didnt see the paging mechanism at the bottom. the article is much more helpful after page 1
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Btw, that was the first beating. Let's continue on from the NYT piece, > shall we? > > At the base, he said, they threw him, still bound, off the Humvee, then led > him into the jail and eventually into an interrogation room. They pressed > him for the details of an assassination plan, about which he knew nothing, > he said. During the interrogation, he said, the translator kicked him in > the shin and told him he needed to confess before Colonel West showed up to > kill him. > > Mr. Hamoodi said he felt relieved to hear the colonel was expected. He > considered Colonel West to be ''calm, quiet, clever and sociable.'' When > the colonel first entered the interrogation room, Mr. Hamoodi said, he > thought, ''Here is the man who will treat me fairly.'' > > Then, he said, Colonel West cocked his gun. > > Colonel West said that he did not then put a round in the gun's chamber but > that he did place the pistol in his lap. He asked Mr. Hamoodi why he wanted > to kill him. Mr. Hamoodi said that he protested, ''I've worked with you, I > like you,'' but that Colonel West silenced his protest. Colonel West > pressed for the names and locations of those involved in the supposed plot, > and he got no answers. > > Soon, the soldiers began striking and shoving Mr. Hamoodi. They were not > instructed to do so by Colonel West but they were not stopped, either, they > said. ''I didn't know it was wrong to hit a detainee,'' a 20-year-old > soldier from Daytona Beach said at the hearing. Colonel West testified that > he would have stopped the beating ''had it become too excessive.'' > > Eventually, the colonel and his soldiers moved Mr. Hamoodi outside, and > threatened him with death. Colonel West said he fired a warning shot in the > air and began counting down from five. He asked his soldiers to put Mr. > Hamoodi's head in a sand-filled barrel usually used for clearing weapons. > At the end of his count, Colonel West fired a shot into the barrel, angling > his gun away from the Iraqi's head, he testified. > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:18 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > He got beat because he went for a weapon. Popping off a round near him > > isn't torture. Cops in the US have done similar things, and actually > have > > much more leeway when dealing with prisoners than we do. > > > > Making him think something isn't illegal. The cops use it al the time > and > > it's been found that lying and threatening are protected. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358618 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
