New Data Hints at Poor Review of Abuse Cases -NYT

[Rose Siding]

Documents made public on Tuesday in connection with a lawsuit about abuses by military personnel in Iraq suggest that some killings of prisoners may not have been investigated thoroughly.

One set of documents, among many released by the Defense Department to the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit, shows that in one instance an Army specialist shot and killed an Iraqi prisoner in Tikrit on Aug. 8, 2003. The Army's criminal investigation division determined there was probable cause to charge the soldier with murder, according to one investigative report. Instead the soldier, whose name was deleted from the documents, was demoted and discharged but did not face a murder charge or court-martial.

The documents, the latest in a series recently disclosed by the A.C.L.U., tell how the prisoner had been verbally harassing guards and "fiddling" with his plastic handcuffs, and said the soldier shot him because the prisoner leaned over the concertina wire, in defiance of orders.

Investigators said that the guards were supposed to use warnings and graduated degrees of force before shooting to kill, and that breaking those rules justified a charge of murder. But the case appeared to be mishandled in several ways, including a failure to properly warn the soldier of his rights before he gave his statement.
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Others appear to describe events that had not been publicized before, including an incident in February 2004 in which 10 soldiers were charged with abusing 44 prisoners who were being escorted to a detention center in Umm Qasr. Four of the soldiers were reduced in rank and received administrative discharges....

http://nytimes.com/2004/12/22/politics/22abuse.html?hp&ex=1103691600&en=b8380dc06490c6b5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[LynnTheDem]

1. "HINT at"??? "MAY not have been"???

GUARANTEED they weren't properly investigated.

And as long as they aren't, the issue will keep cropping up to bite bush & Cartel in their nasty little war criminal asses.

But if they DO investigate properly, they'll have to release the "bad apples" soldiers now in jail, as they'll have been found to have been simply following orders from their CiC.

What a web bushCartel weave, when they practise war crimes.

[lovuian]

2. Well its hard to investigate something you want to hide!!!

and the FBI CIA and Pentagon are all involved in violations of the Geneva Convention a war crimes.