Posted on 09/24/2005 2:09:01 AM PDT by Crackingham
Three former members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to amuse themselves. The new allegations, the first involving members of the 82nd Airborne, are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch. The 30-page report does not identify the troops, but one is Capt. Ian Fishback, who has presented some of his allegations in letters this month to top aides of two senior Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, John Warner of Virginia and John McCain of Arizona. Captain Fishback approached the Senators' offices only after he tried to report the allegations to his superiors for 17 months.
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Captain Fishback and two sergeants described systematic abuses of Iraqi prisoners, including beatings, exposure to extremes of hot and cold, stacking in human pyramids and sleep deprivation.
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In one incident, the Human Rights Watch report states, an off-duty cook broke a detainee's leg with a metal baseball bat. Detainees were also stacked, fully clothed, in human pyramids and forced to hold five-gallon water jugs with arms outstretched or do jumping jacks until they passed out. "We would give them blows to the head, chest, legs and stomach, and pull them down, kick dirt on them," one sergeant told Human Rights Watch researchers. "This happened every day."
"Some days we would just get bored, so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them get in a pyramid. This was before Abu Ghraib but just like it. We did it for amusement."
He said he acted under orders from military intelligence personnel to soften up detainees, whom the unit called persons under control, or PUC's, to make them more cooperative during formal interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"HRW has received funding from: the Ahmanson Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Ford Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Righteous Persons Foundation; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and the Rockefeller Foundation."
Discover the network has a extensive article on HRW they have been taken over by the Soros mental sickness. Their original principles of human rights have become secondary to its far left political agenda.
There is no way I would give this any credibility unless a credible source is found. the new york times and human rights watch are both a part of the Soros smear machine and neither is reliable.
Complete horse shit BUMP!
Our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan fight like cowards! They kidnap innocent people and behead them. It's time that the liberal bias media emphasizes this instead of our abusing killers. I don't condone prisoner abuse, but remember 9/11?
VPI? or VMI?
just curious.
I see Jayson Blair is using a pseudonym.
Practice makes perfect.
Who GIVES a sh*t?
These scumbag terrorists and murderers, of ALL people on the planet, DESERVE IT.
Why we never dropped cluster bombs on such crowds of savages is unbelievable to me.
Hmmm, just wondering why the good Captain would come forward with his allegations at this time. Could he be flunking out of the SFQC and using these allegations in the hopes of achieving "Whistle Blower" status? As a "Whistle Blower," he could claim that he was flunked out of the course for reasons other than his lack of motivation and incompetence. Such tactics have been tried before when officers saw their careers threatened.
For a summer job I worked for a masonry company building the block walls of a Kmart. All I did was carry mortar up and down scaffolding in 5 gallon buckets...Who can I sue?
Well, since our troops get beheaded and contractors get burned alive, dragged through the streets and their charred bodies tied to bridges, I'd say they detainees are lucky. Anyone who played a sport has been through this crap just from initiation, etc. The rookies from the Pirates had to dress up like Hooters girls for a day this past week. Had it been a detainee, the Slimes would have covered it, the UN would have had investigations, and it would have most definitely been reported as a direct order from W.
Thanks for posting the picture - I had not seen this one till now.
Well... so long as were are prepared to accept such treatment of out own troops if captured, no problem.
If that was all our troops had to look forward to as
prisoners......not beheadings, or being emasculated,
or hung from bridges and set on fire.
Bush has lost his base?
Wonder if one of the "sources" from the 82nd is the liar Hart Viges who is one of mother sheehan's little sheep? He's gone on record saying that soldiers threw candy in the street so the military could target children. Of course that turned him into a conscientious objector and forced him to tour the country blasting our soldiers.
Gee, I hope I just didn't overreact to this news...
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