Iraq seeks answers after fatal riot at U.S. prison camp

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7502905

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. guards who shot dead four inmates should be put on trial if found to have used excessive force in quelling a riot at a military detention camp, Iraq's human rights minister said on Tuesday.

Bakhtiar Amin said he believed two U.S. troops had fired on rioters on Monday but he did not know why. His ministry had sent a delegation to the camp in southern Iraq to investigate.

"If we are convinced there was no justification for the degree of force used then we want them to be tried," Amin told Reuters. "That is what the American side says as well."

The riot broke out at Camp Bucca, near the Kuwaiti border, where over 5,000 suspected insurgents are housed at the U.S. military's main prison camp in Iraq.

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1. The Democratic Government of Iraq cannot do that

can they? Can they tell us to leave too?

Somebody ain't gonna be liking these revolting developments.

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[Cocoa]

3. they're getting uppity

[Career Prole]

2. Did the human rights minister say anything about this guy?

Allawi Shot Inmates in Cold Blood, Say Witnesses
by Paul McGeough, Chief Herald Correspondent, in Baghdad

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security center, in the city's south-western suburbs.

They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".

The Prime Minister's office has denied the entirety of the witness accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had never visited the center and he did not carry a gun.

But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0716-01.htm

I mean, if they're wanting trials 'n stuff...