| Topic: |
Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice" |
| Date: |
20 Feb 2006 10:41:28 PM |
| Object: |
Consequences of Christian terrorism |
Why cooperate with Christian mass murdering terrorists?
Basra cuts co-operation with British over beating video
Last Updated Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:22:43 EST
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/02/19/iraq-britain060219.html
The municipal government of a southern Iraqi city has suspended
co-operation with British forces because of a video that appears to show
British soldiers abusing Iraqi civilians.
A British soldier patrols an electric power station near Basra, Iraq's
second largest city, on Sunday, Feb. 19. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed).
The council in Basra announced its decision on Sunday, a week after a
newspaper released the video and published photographs that seem to show
British soldiers beating youths with batons in southern Iraq in 2004.
Another council in the area has made a similar move, which means British
troops can expect little official co-operation in most of the parts of
southern Iraq that they are supposed to monitor.
The Basra council was expected to send letters to the police service and
other civic organizations Tuesday calling for them to stop working with
British troops.
It has told its employees that they could lose their jobs if they work with
the British.
However, Britain's Defence Secretary John Reid said less than .05 per cent
of the nearly 100,000 British soldiers who have served in Iraq have been
involved in "sustainable allegations of mistreatment of civilians."
"I insist we put it in proportion," he said.
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"...non-consensual bird shot in the face."
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