this and didn't walk away with anything concrete. If you have a reputable
source please share it.
SPC Timothy Heald
Rifleman
A co 1-116th Infantry(Light)
-----Original Message-----
From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:03 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: POW Abuses in IRaq..
What was depicted in these photos is in no way, shape or form acceptable
under the Geneva Convention, or under International Law. Regardless of
whether we are dealing with Americans or the citizens of any other
sovereign nation in the world.
These men and women were not terrorists and most were not even suspected
terrorists.
This was what the report by the US Army Investigation found:
* Prisoners were punched, slapped and kicked.
* In some cases, soldiers jumped on their naked feet.
* Male and female detainees were left naked for days at a time. Some
were videotaped and photographed, an especially degrading experience for
Muslims who regard being photographed as a sin. * Some were forcibly
arranged in various sexually explicit positions for the photographs.
* Naked male prisoners were forced to wear women’s underwear.
* Others were forced to perform sexual acts upon themselves while being
photographed.
* One naked prisoner was forced to stand on a box with a sandbag on his
head. Wires were attached to his fingers, toes and penis to simulate
electric torture.
* A male military police guard had sex with a female prisoner.
Other allegations have been found to be credible:
* claims that soldiers broke chemical lights and poured phosphoric
liquid on the prisoners,
* threatened them with guns,
* beat them with broom handles and chairs,
* sodomized one with a chemical light
* allowed military working dogs to bite them.
The US President has rightly called these actions “Shameless and
unacceptable”.
This was not right, regardless of how you wish to view it. It is NOT
acceptable.
These acts had absolutely nothing to do with interrogation.
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:46 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: POW Abuses in IRaq..
Here are some more:
http://rwor.org/a/1239/fallujahsidebar.htm
I still can't see anything that would prove physical violence. Hell
regular
cops are allowed to lie and use psychological tricks to get you to talk,
shouldn't the military, especially since we are not dealing with
American
citizens, have the ability to use alternative methods to get information
and
cooperation from prisoners?
While physical abuse is certainly banned by the Geneva convention, I am
not
sure what it has to say about something like this.
SPC Timothy Heald
Rifleman
A co 1-116th Infantry(Light)
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