Liberty1st wrote:
Too bad they didn't kill them on the battlefield and save us the trouble.
Thoo bad they didn't send brave GOP chickenhawks to the battlefield.
"AWOL Coward GW Chimpzilla" <patriot-for-cash@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:aYTUc.323458$JR4.173222@attbi_s54...
US forces kill two in Iraq jail riot
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and agencies in Baghdad
Thursday August 19, 2004
The Guardian
US forces shot dead two prisoners during riot at the Abu Ghraib prison
yesterday, the worst violence for months at the notorious jail west of
Baghdad.
Military police intervened first vocally, then with rubber bullets and
finally
with deadly force after more than 200 inmates were drawn into a massive
brawl.
Five prisoners were wounded by other prisoners, and military officers said
the
intervention was necessary to prevent an inmate from being killed by the
crowd.
Their rules of engagement allow US forces to respond with lethal force if
necessary, officials said.
The fight began in one of the prison's two tent compounds when a group
attacked
a prisoner with tent poles.
Several skirmishes have aggravated tensions at Abu Ghraib in the past, but
the
latest US response puts its activity at the jail under fresh scrutiny at a
delicate time.
The US army is about to bring further charges in the prisoner abuse
scandal,
beginning disciplinary action against two dozen soldiers and civilian
contractors' staff involved in the interrogation of Iraqi detainees,
Pentagon
officials said yesterday.
In a report on the interrogation practices at the prison, which may be
released
as early as tomorrow, Major General George Fay recommends disciplinary
proceedings against at least 24 personnel attached to the 205th Military
Intelligence Brigade at the jail.
His findings follow months of insistence fby the White House and Pentagon
that
the abuse at Abu Ghraib was confined to a handful of junior reservists.
So far only seven members of a military police unit from Maryland have
been
charged.
During the trial of one, Private Lynndie England, it emerged that some of
the
alleged miscreants were engaging in abuse for fun, but also to vent their
frustration after a prison riot last year in which some soldiers were
injured.
Further evidence that the abuse was widespread and systematic is expected
to
emerge next week on the release of another investigation, led by the
former CIA
director, James Schlesinger.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1286245,00.html
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