Aren't photos like this against the Geneva Convention???

[deek]

Fourth Infantry Division soldiers from the 1st Battalion 68th Armor Task Force detain and put sandbags over the heads of the men, 31 in total, of the village of Mashahdah, Iraq (news - web sites) 45 kilometers north of Baghdad Sunday, July 13, 2003. The search mission was part of Operation Ivy Serpent which began Sunday in an attempt to root out and eliminate pro-Saddam insurgents who have been firing rocket-propelled grenades on American vehicle convoys and launching mortar attacks on U.S. bases. (AP Photo/John Moore)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030713/168/4o16y.html

[AnnabelLee]

1. In my judgment they are,

but remember, the US is not bound by the Geneva Convention in Bizarro World.

[southernfried]

7. based on the reasoning given at the time

the answer is not as it does not identify specific prisoners, in short, you don't see faces.

[DS1]

10. You are correct, sir.

[NNN0LHI]

15. What do you say about these? I can see these guys faces pretty good

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3062877.stm

[loudsue]

2. GAWD!! In 120-degree Iraqi weather???

This type of treatment is so totally inhumane! If their hands are bound, why in the hell do they have to have bags over their heads? Are they going to have "sticking-out-tongues" of Mass Destruction if their heads are left uncovered so they can still breathe??

:kick:

[Iris]

3. Ok, I see a bag marked "32"

yet the caption says there are 31 prisoners. Wonder what happened?

[SoCalDem]

4. like a baker's dozen..pay for 31, get one free

:shrug:

[trof]

5. The Unknown Assassins?

Sorry, bad joke.
:-(

[Tinoire]

6. Yes and this time

there is NO excuse because technology is allowing the entire world to witness this.

This is a crime against humanity! Monstrous in that everyone knows about it and not enough care. 'Love thy neighbor' has been perverted into 'Love thine own kind'. Elie Weisel, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Simon Wiesenthal, Franklyn Graham what's up? See no evil? Hear no evil?

[Equinox]

16. Another case of what applies to us, doesn't apply to the rest...

of the world. :eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

8. No booze for the Iraqi's either or you get the bag treatment too

A US soldier flashes the V-sign as he escorts hooded illegal vendors to a police station after being apprehended Thursday July 10, 2003 along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). The vendors were allegedly caught selling alcohol, still prohibited to be sold outside in Muslim Iraq. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030710/168/4n6oe.html&e=2&ncid=1479

[Ripley]

11. How much do you want to bet that those soldiers

"confiscated" the evidence and it disappeared?

[arcane1]

18. our troops are goddamn enforcing Muslim law??!?!?!?!?!?

:wtf:


was alcohol illegal in Saddam's Iraq? I thought they were secular... maybe like a blue law, perhaps...?

nonetheless, :wtf:


next up- US troops hanging Iraqi women for showing their ankles??

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

9. They put bags over their heads?

I at least hope there are holes in those bags so they can breathe! That looks like it's in total violation of the Geneva Convention but I'm not sure if Geneva rules apply to those "detainees" or "prisoners" (no idea what they call them now, lol).

on edit: spelling

[diamond14]

12. numbers on the bags, wrote on their chests, the nazis numbered

their prisoners too....

[enough]

13. Good god.

What is this doing even to our soldiers to be made to perform in a world where they think this is OKAY. Let alone what it is doing to the Iraqis and their view of Americans.

The question of how "we" are behaving over there needs to be brought to the fore. There was a thread a couple of days ago with staggering allegations of US forces withholding medical care from Iraqis, adults and children, which apparently is against our Geneva convention responsiblities as an occupying force.

Does anyone know good links on the subject of US human rights violations in Iraq?

[OrdinaryTa]

14. Support the Troops

What is this doing even to our soldiers to be made to perform in a world where they think this is OKAY

What are you, unpatriotic? Shut your mouth. You're probably one of these free riders who skipped out on the draft. </sarcasm off>

If they do this while the cameras are rolling, just imagine what the do when the cameras aren't around. These morally coarse individuals are coming back to America, having learned the sadistic pleasures of abusing the helpless. Welcome home, guys.

[MetaTrope]

17. "The men of the village"?

So we're removing entire populations from their homes indiscriminately?

[roguevalley]

19. yes

you aren't allowed to humiliate prisoners

[IggleDoer]

20. But --- the war is over --- Mission Accomplished!

So the Geneva Convention does not apply to trhe Roveians

[gulliver]

21. Like something out of the movie "Brazil"

In that movie, prisoners were cocooned in hooded contraptions with hooks on them. They were hooked up on moving "conveyer cables" so they could be "processed" assembly-line fashion.

Are we getting so much out of bagging these guys heads that we can affort the fallout from pictures like this?

America, is this "American?"