Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Prisoner homicides

At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what U.S. Army and Navy investigators have now concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, according to military officials.
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The number of confirmed or suspected unlawful killings of prisoners is much higher than any the army and the Pentagon have previously reported.
  International Herald Tribune article
Was this the work of the same seven bad apples?
[M]ost of those initially charged with crimes by the military have ended up receiving only nonjudicial punishments, and neither their names nor the details of those punishments have been disclosed.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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