The First Homicide: The Story Behind The Death Of Iraqi Prisoner No. 0310

[floda]

Always, there was the heat. Steaming like a cauldron at 125 degrees during the day, parboiling at 90 degrees after dark. Enough to induce around-the-clock anger and misery. Enough to set anyone on edge.
No one wanted to be at this god-awful place, not the U.S. Marines who were the guards and certainly not the captured Iraqis who were the prisoners.

Their accommodations were three stone buildings gouged by looters of every semblance of modernity. For bathrooms, the Iraqis got empty Meals Ready to Eat boxes. The Marines dug a trench.
This was life at the Camp Whitehorse detention center outside Nasiriyah, as described in military documents and photographs obtained by The Associated Press.

The Marines spoke English. The Iraqis spoke Arabic. There were no translators The uneasy residents lived in separate rooms connected by a breezeway. Some 20 men of the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment occupied one; about a dozen prisoners occupied the others. Everything around them — the dirt, the sand and the sky — was the same lifeless color.

Nagem Sadoon Hatab arrived on June 3, 2003. He was rumored to be an official of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, as well as a shooter in the ambush of Pfc. Jessica Lynch's U.S. Army convoy.
He was irksome from the time he arrived, Marines later testified. He didn't move fast enough when they ordered him to strip. He sat when they ordered him to stand.
Two days later, he was naked in the dirt, curled in the fetal position, covered in his own waste. A Marine who came on guard duty prodded Hatab with a booted foot. No response.


more..

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=DB4888D9-88FA-4230-9D0C-5A48EE7C43E6

[frylock]

1. they only did as they were told..

support the troops. FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

[reprehensor]

2. wow

Horrible.

[tlcandie]

3. Maj. Clarke A. Paulus

Just one of the many... :puke:

[Disturbed]

4. 37 deaths of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan

Pentagon secretly investigated detainee deaths as homicides
By Alex Lefebvre
2 June 2004

Not only did US forces torture and sexually assault Iraqi detainees but in some case they killed them outright, according to reports now surfacing in the press. US military investigators have investigated 37 deaths of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that nine were “suspicious.” Eight “homicides” were classified as “justified,” and therefore not “suspicious,” although at least one of these instances involves an Iraqi shot and killed while throwing stones at a US soldier during a prison riot.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jun2004/tort-j02.shtml

* I just Googled and this was one of many sites addressing the topic.
Isn't it absurd that the Pentagon investegates the Military?