US tortured to death 2 prisoners in Dec, yet no followup news. Coverup?

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

note: posted this in DU lounge earlier when GD was down.
it belongs here.
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Is US still 'the good guys' if we torture prisoners to death ?
or make that BUSH ADMINISTRATION's torture of prisoners to death.

YET no additional news reports since.

COVERUP. Sure looks like it.

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So-- Any wonder why 10s of 1000s of tourists from the rest of
the world have chosen not to vacation in Bush's USA ?

...like how many took a holiday in Hitler's Germany.
Germany tourism was down too in the 1930s.

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Rumsfeld's tactics to torture & kill prisoners
has been widely reported in the world's news media,
specifically the 2 prisoners that were murdered
by US while in a prisoner camp.

Doesnt this now present a reason for no other
country to follow GENEVA Convention for treatment
of POWs since the US under Bush/Rumsfeld has
tortured POWs to death ?

Bush & Rumsfeld actions have now directly made any
US soldier taken prisoner more subject to death
while captured DOES IT NOT ?


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2503094,00.html

excerpt -

``There has been a report of an aircraft missing,'' the secretary acknowledged on NBC's ``Meet the Press. ``I don't want to speculate because I simply don't know.''

Rumsfeld said there are some American troops who are missing in Iraq. He noted that under the Geneva Convention governing prisoners of war, ``It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners.''

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2825575.stm
BBC - "Prisoners 'killed' at US base...Torture allegations"

Thursday, 6 March, 2003, 13:25 GMT

Prisoners 'killed' at US base

Two Afghan prisoners were killed while in US custody at their base at Bagram, a military coroner has concluded.

The report said "blunt force trauma" had contributed to the deaths.

The detainees had spent about a week in the detention facility when they died last December.

....more

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America admits suspects died in interrogations


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=384604

American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul – reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives.

A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism.

The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive, known only as Dilawar, 22, from the Khost region, died from "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" while another captive, Mullah Habibullah, 30, suffered from blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a "blunt force injury".

.....more

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,909295,00.html

actual headline -

"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military
interrogation base"


'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Friday March 7, 2003
The Guardian

Two prisoners who died while being held for interrogation at the US military base in Afghanistan had apparently been beaten, according to a military pathologist's report. A criminal investigation is now under way into the deaths which have both been classified as homicides.

The deaths have led to calls for an inquiry into what interrogation techniques are being used at the base where it is believed the al-Qaida leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is now also being held. Former prisoners at the base claim that detainees are chained to the ceiling, shackled so tightly that the blood flow stops, kept naked and hooded and kicked to keep them awake for days on end.

The two men, both Afghans, died last December at the US forces base in Bagram, north of Kabul, where prisoners have been held for questioning. The autopsies found they had suffered "blunt force injuries" and classified both deaths as homicides

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