Another soldier to be tried in prisoner's mistreatment (murder,actually)

[Judi Lynn]

Aug. 29, 2005, 2:13PM

Another soldier to be tried in prisoner's mistreatment
Associated Press

FORT BLISS — A fifth soldier accused of mistreating a prisoner who later died in Afghanistan is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday.

Anthony Morden, an Ohio reservist from the 377th Military Police Company who was charged as a sergeant, has been accused of assault, maltreatment and making a false official statement. Military investigators have alleged that Morden was one of at least six soldiers who hit a detainee known as Dilawar.

Dilawar died a little more than a week after being brought to the detention center at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2002. According to autopsy records, Dilawar's legs were so badly beaten that they would have been amputated had he lived.

Of the nine soldiers originally charged with beating Dilawar and another detainee known as Habibullah, four have been convicted or pleaded guilty. Charges against Sgt. James P. Boland, also a reservist MP, were dropped and he was issued a letter of reprimand for dereliction of duty.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3329769
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You may remember he was only a taxi driver, completely non-threatening, who was grabbed after his mother had told him to go into town to find his sister, if I remember correctly.

These Americans used to torture him simply to get him to cry out, then mocked his cries. It's been discussed here before.

Here's an open letter from Human Rights Watch to Donald Rumsfeld on his zestful use of torture against human beings. I'm certain it wasn't answered, at least not truthfully:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/10/afghan9838_txt.htm

[WhiteTara]

1. I hope he is convicted of torture and murder

I hope his life is nasty brutish and short.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

2. he'll get a good 'ol 'murkin slap on the wrist

we usually don't punish our own here in Murka in a "time of war"--it would send out he "wrong message"--he may just get a promotion from der homeland SS-(saracsm)