Interpreter: prisoner screamed and wept

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/88687.html

Torture-charged former intelligence officer Annemette Hommel refused to break off interrogations when one of her prisoners wept from pain and begged her permission to change posture, one of Hommel's interpreters said on Thursday.

The interpreter gave her statement to a Copenhagen court, where Hommel is being tried along with four military police officers for mistreating her prisoners in Iraq last year.

'My legs, my legs, they hurt,' the interpreter said the prisoner cried. She said Hommel ignored his laments and continued the interrogation.

When the prisoner was finally allowed to stand up, after kneeling with his back straight and his hands cuffed behind his back for an hour and a half, his legs did not carry him, the witness said.

[knowbody0]

1. where do they find these sadists?

how can they not respond? their hearts must be filled with shit

[Miss Chybil]

3. Power does strange things to weak people. nt

[BeHereNow]

20. That says it all Miss Chybil...

THAT statement describes the root of
ALL of our problems.
From the the bottom to the top, we
have WEAK people in positions of enormous
power.
It is why it will all come crashing down eventually.
Unfortunately, it we will be in the way when that happens
and be crushed by it all in more ways than we can imagine.
BHN

[bitchkitty]

19. Nope, they don't have hearts, just a cold spot. n/t

[ConfuZed]

2. You mean he wasnt screaming about the woman in his sight...

Notice fox news likes to inject that in every torture story

[NVMojo]

4. It's sad that Bush calls this "Americanism" is "morals & values"

[alfredo]

5. If bush is not impeached, indicted, imprisoned we will lose

all credibility. In a democracy, we are liable for our leader's actions. They represent us.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

6. Permanent Chimp

he's never leaving--no matter what !
this is just the beginning-
If you're pissed now just wait til they really start rolling...
imprisoning all opposition, confiscation all property of the opposition...all legal under the patiot act...
And they'll not only repeal the 22nd amendment but they'll MIHOP another "event" on top of that!

Permanent Chimp forever---time to start looking for another country to live in...this place will soon be uninhabitable for any of us with opposing views.

[LightningFlash]

7. Wrong....We are going to win....

And they are going to fall for the massive sins they've committed in the name of god. Permanently, and shall not go any other way.

:patriot:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

9. I'd love to believe that- I do not think he has any intention of leaving

They'd have to drag him out in handcuffs kicking and screaming!

It would take a lot to wake up the sleeping apathetic population to oust the dicktater.

We have a solid 50% of the population opposing him,
but the fascist own the media and the religious evangelists---
so it's about 50-50 but they are much more "driven"(greed you know)--

The Dems are wimps--why didn't ALL the dems sign the Conyers document?
Why only 102?
Chimps's ratings are the lowest ever.
So why are the Dems so scared to get 100% behind Conyers?


Wait til the next MIHOP terra event!
due any day now.

Money in the bank for the fascist greedy bastards.

[alfredo]

12. You have to believe this country is worth fighting for.

I know we have become very materialistic and selfish, but I don't believe our nation is beyond rehabilitation.

[Henny Penny]

11. I hope you will not be offended if I say that America already has

lost ALL credibility.

I know many very pro-American people here, people who lived there once, or have friends and family there and at the start of this campaign for them the US could do no wrong.

But things have come to such a pass now, that even these people roll their eyes or shake their heads at what the US is doing. No-one believes a word that official US sources say. It is dreadful to think that so much good will has been thrown away, for nothing.

[alfredo]

13. I think our name can be rehabilitated to some degree, but not

totally. It will take us rejecting the policies that lead to 9-11, and we will have to bring bush and his junta to justice.

[Henny Penny]

14. I think it is definitely not too late....

but * et al have to be seen to pay the price. They have to get jail terms!

[alfredo]

15. It's more than a gesture, it is doing the right thing.

We are a nation of laws.

[Dudley_DUright]

18. We (as a nation) blew it big time by "reelecting" Bush

Not much will rectify that stain on our national honor.

[Henny Penny]

21. If you get some proof of vote rigging...

electronic voting machines being "fixed", people in democratic districts being kept of the register, or prevented from voting etc....

That would go a long way to removing that particular stain.

[WhiteTara]

16. We will lose our humanity

if chimpy isn't sent to the Hague. We can not stop until he is frog marched out of office.
:grr:

[TahitiNut]

8. More ...

Annemette Hommel
Capt Annemette Hommel was sent home early from Iraq

Danish troops deny abuse charges

A Danish military intelligence officer and four military police sergeants have denied abusing 11 prisoners while they were based in southern Iraq.

The trial in Denmark heard that Capt Annemette Hommel forced prisoners to kneel during lengthy interrogations and refused to give them food and water.

The military prosecutor said the four police sergeants also verbally humiliated the detainees.

If found guilty, the five could each face a year in prison.

Capt Hommel is charged with four counts of negligence while on duty in March, April and June 2004.

All five are accused of verbal abuse of detainees.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Danish soldiers plead not guilty to charges of Iraqi prisoner abuse
Jamie Cortazzo at 8:47 AM

A Danish intelligence officer, Reserve Capt. Annemette Hommel, and four military police sergeants pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The military prosecutor, Benny Holm Frandsen, told a Copenhagen court that the soldiers were guilty of inhumane treatment of prisoners. Hommel, who could face up to one year in prison, has denied the charges and claimed that she did not know the interrogation methods were illegal. Hommel was quoted in the Danish press as saying "I was fully convinced that the training was in accordance with the Geneva conventions ... nobody told me that I could not use the tools I was given by the army." The trial is expected to last until December. Despite it, the Danes are not expected to begin withdrawal from Iraq until at least June, and the Danish people are still largely in favor of the government's support of the war. The Danish government website provides a news report on the start of court proceedings.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/05/danish-soldiers-plead-not-guilty-to.php

Witnesses: Danish Soldiers Ordered Abuse

Thursday May 26, 2005 5:01 PM
By JAN M. OLSEN
Associated Press Writer

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A Danish army captain and four military police sergeants forced Iraqi detainees to kneel for hours while waiting to be interrogated, witnesses told a court Thursday.

The testimony by members of a Danish scouting squadron supported some of the allegations against the five defendants, who have all pleaded innocent.

Capt. Annemette Hommel and the four sergeants are accused of ordering three detainees to kneel on the floor in an outdoor detention facility, denying them water and verbally humiliating them during the interrogation at a Danish camp in southern Iraq on March 9, 2004.

Although not nearly as serious as some of the torture claims against U.S. and British soldiers, including at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the trial marks the first time in Denmark that soldiers are accused of violating the Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in Iraq.

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[Igel]

17. Thank you. I was wondering why nobody picked up

on the "Copenhagen" reference. It's not like the US typically sends its soldiers to Denmark for trial.

A quick search on Hommel's name turns up a huge number of web pages--articles, blogs, discussion groups--arguing over whether she's to be considered guilty before trial or not. (Mostly in Danish, to be sure, a language I have studiously avoided learning any of.)

[lumpy]

10. Glad to see that Denmark

follows the Geneva Convention. Bushco ?