At least 20 soldiers implicated in further Iraqi abuse claims

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Independent
By Severin Carrell
23 January 2005


At least 20 British soldiers are now facing prosecution after coming under "significant suspicion" of involvement in the "deliberate" abuse of Iraqi civilians, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

The figure is contained in responses by the Ministry of Defence to detailed questions from the IoS. These also reveal that the total number of cases involving alleged abuse and negligence by British forces in Iraq has gone up from 12 to 16, and include two previously undisclosed cases against Royal Air Force personnel.

The new cases led last night to fresh demands from Labour and opposition MPs for an independent inquiry into the abuse allegations.

Meanwhile, another Iraqi civilian has accused British troops of deliberately torturing and assaulting him in August 2002. Muhanned Dhahir Abdullah claims he was forced to lean over an open toilet and then kicked and punched. He alleges he was also hooded, forced to drink urine, soaked with hot water and fluorescent chemicals, made to clean out latrines with his bare hands, and told to "dance like Michael Jackson".

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=603791

"dance like Michael Jackson": Did he mean:

or

[UL_Approved]

1. Coalition of the Abusing

More S&M freaks with the fetish get exposed. Its a terrible thing, what war brings out of or destroys in us. More people with the abuse issue will be found than this.

In human history, this is the first time that soldiers of war are being scrutinized as are domestic police officers. This is a major development in social terms. Earnest Hemingway wrote of war horrors that went totally unaccounted for. Now, we get trials in courts of law over this stuff. The modern coverage of this stuff is amazing. We have advanced, in some small measure.

[Melynn]

2. What do you expect?

If the leaders of a nation are immoral then why should the soldiers fighting the illegal war obey the law?

[central scrutinizer]

3. just a few isolated incidents, huh

just round up a few low-level grunts to take the fall, again.

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[RockStar]

4. its not the soldiers fault...hehhehe...they cant be hold accountable..hehe

they arent the responsible ones heheheh. Its Tony Blair and Bush fault hehehehe. YEAH DO YOU KNOW HOW STUPID IT SOUNDS WHEN AMERIKANS MAKE EXCUSES for their pathetic soldiers killing, raping, maining, and hurting IRAQ's. I for one WILL NEVER SUPPORT OUR TROOPS the hell with our TROOPS. Everyone makes a choice you chose to go and fight deal with the consequences alot of soldiers chose not to go.