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| Excuse me???..crime?..the men in these wings were captured in combat, that's not a crime.. |
do you have any PROOF of that? i'm wary of statements from that from partisans whom i don't trust... all that i've seen was that the majority of prisoners in abu ghraib were civilians who were summarily arrested - i.e. they were NOT combatants.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact Quote:
| A lack of proper screening also meant that many innocent Iraqis were wrongly being detained indefinitely, it seemed, in some cases. The Taguba study noted that more than sixty per cent of the civilian inmates at Abu Ghraib were deemed not to be a threat to society, which should have enabled them to be released. Karpinski’s defense, Taguba said, was that her superior officers routinely rejected her recommendations regarding the release of such prisoners. |
http://www.notinourname.net/war/torture-5may04.htm Quote:
| Most of the prisoners, however-by the fall there were several thousand, including women and teen-agers-were civilians, many of whom had been picked up in random military sweeps and at highway checkpoints. They fell into three loosely defined categories: common criminals; security detainees suspected of "crimes against the coalition"; and a small number of suspected "high-value" leaders of the insurgency against the coalition forces. |