Wednesday WashPost: New Catalogue Of Marine Abuses Against Iraqis

[Newsjock]

As Drudge would say, "Developing hard" ...

Marines operating in Iraq over the last two years committed a variety of abuses against Iraqi prisoners, including burning a detainee’s hands by igniting alcohol-based cleanser in August 2003, according to internal Defense Department documents released Tuesday.

Several other incidents, most of them previously undisclosed, are described in investigative reports and legal summaries. In Karbala in May 2003, one Marine held a 9 mm pistol to the back of a bound detainee’s head while another took a photograph. Two months later, in Adiwaniyah, four Marines ordered teen-age Iraqi looters to kneel alongside holes and then fired a pistol “to conduct a mock execution.”

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[Sara Beverley]

1. War crimes, plain and simple. They give the grunts a bad name.

I hope they get the ultimate punishment but the "scroungers" probably recieved harsher punishment than these will get.

Swiftboaters where are you. You know these reports are not fit for duty. They must be lying on the troops as Kerry did. Eh? (sarcasm off).

[0007]

2. Sounds like a bunch of nice guys, 'eh?

What is the objective or purpose behind this type of behavior?

[Guarionex]

3. war crimes...

ain't ISOLATED anymore is it...

Witness, America, the death of your PERCEPTION of innocence (because you never had at all...you've been a dirty, murdering whore for centuries, ever since the massacre of Native Americans).