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theweaselkingUS Army closed the vast majority of prisoner-abuse cases early, without presentation of evidence, trial, or penalty.
For the most part, this is because the records have been destroyed by the personnel on trial, who were given access to them after being informed of the charges, and deliberate destruction of evidence (which WOULD exonerate them if they were innocent) is apparently not a crime the JAG feels like pursuing.
Oh, and is this Abu Ghraib? No, these are in the other prisons, and in the streets of Iraq, and the people who ARE on trial are all saying the same thing: We were ordered to do so.
Rumsfeld cancelled a trip to Germany for fear of being arrested on war crimes charges. It's a start.
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[One] detainee said he was whisked off a Baghdad street by two U.S. soldiers, blindfolded and taken to an unknown location, where he was beaten by wooden sticks, sodomized and given electric shocks during an interrogation session. He was also one of three detainees who said in separate cases that he was forced to drink urine.
"They made me take a picture with the captain giving me a hundred-dollar bill," the detainee said. "They then threatened to show the picture to the Iraqis and say I was working with them."
Medical examinations corroborated the injuries to the detainee's wrists and noted injuries to his anus. Military lawyers ruled that the "investigation did not further diminish the integrity or credibility of [the] allegation," according to a report dated Aug. 5, but they closed the case.
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For the most part, this is because the records have been destroyed by the personnel on trial, who were given access to them after being informed of the charges, and deliberate destruction of evidence (which WOULD exonerate them if they were innocent) is apparently not a crime the JAG feels like pursuing.
Oh, and is this Abu Ghraib? No, these are in the other prisons, and in the streets of Iraq, and the people who ARE on trial are all saying the same thing: We were ordered to do so.
Rumsfeld cancelled a trip to Germany for fear of being arrested on war crimes charges. It's a start.
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[One] detainee said he was whisked off a Baghdad street by two U.S. soldiers, blindfolded and taken to an unknown location, where he was beaten by wooden sticks, sodomized and given electric shocks during an interrogation session. He was also one of three detainees who said in separate cases that he was forced to drink urine.
"They made me take a picture with the captain giving me a hundred-dollar bill," the detainee said. "They then threatened to show the picture to the Iraqis and say I was working with them."
Medical examinations corroborated the injuries to the detainee's wrists and noted injuries to his anus. Military lawyers ruled that the "investigation did not further diminish the integrity or credibility of [the] allegation," according to a report dated Aug. 5, but they closed the case.
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