Bones may be from Iraqi, Marine's lawyer says

[Roland99]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040917-9999-1m17horse.html

CAMP PENDLETON – Authorities have tracked down what could be missing body parts of an Iraqi prisoner who died in a Marine-run jail in Iraq, the lawyer for a Marine facing court-martial said yesterday.

The development comes a week after a judge ordered government officials to find out what happened to the rib cage and hyoid bone of inmate Nagem Sadoon Hatab, who died at the Camp Whitehorse jail near Nasiriyah in June 2003.

Maj. Clarke Paulus faces a court-martial in connection with Hatab's death. His lawyers have demanded access to the body parts in order to conduct their own scientific examination of the inmate's injuries. Paulus's court-martial has been postponed while authorities searched for the missing bones.

Earlier this week, authorities at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., found a rib cage in a refrigerator, Paulus' lead lawyer, Keith Higgins, said yesterday. A label indicated the rib cage had been sent from Kuwait, but there was no name tag on the bag containing the bones, Higgins said.



WTF??

[tlcandie]

1. I'm with you on this one!!!

:wtf:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Cannibalism? Sonuvabitch! n/t

[Roland99]

4. Wonder if his favorite movie is Silence of the Lambs?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They have got a great sense organization don't they?

I have always believed that the entire military was a huge disorganized stupid mess and this pretty much confirms it.