Four British Soldiers to Face Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Charges

[UpInArms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40661-2004Jun14.html

LONDON -- Four British soldiers will face courts-martial on charges of abusing prisoners in Iraq, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said Monday.

He said the charges include allegations of "assault, indecent assault which apparently involves making the victims engage in sexual activity between themselves, and a military charge of prejudicing good order and military discipline."

In a written statement to the House of Lords, he did not name the defendants or give the date of the alleged offenses, but said there was "photographic evidence" pertinent to the case.

...just a bit more...

[Briar]

1. About time

This case dates back at least a year.

Now what about all the other soldiers who have abused and killed Iraqis?

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Other soldiers like these perhaps?

Man beaten so long and so severely his kidneys failed
By Severin Carrell
13 June 2004


A detailed medical file passed to The Independent on Sunday has revealed that an Iraqi civilian was so severely beaten about the body by British troops that it caused his kidneys to fail.

British hospital consultants have revealed that medical records for Kifah Talah, 44, an engineer arrested last September, showed that his kidney damage was due to a sustained and prolonged physical assault all over his body. Doctors say the beatings led to the massive release of a toxic enzyme into his blood stream that overloaded his kidneys, causing them to fail, and left him needing kidney dialysis for life.

Mr Talah's case - first revealed by the IoS earlier this year - is one of the most notorious to come out of a now infamous raid on a hotel near Basra by a Queen's Lancashire Regiment unit on 13 September last year, in a search for an illegal weapons cache.

One of seven other men arrested in the raid, Baha Mousa, 26, died in hospital three days later from injuries allegedly sustained by repeated beatings by QLR members. Up to six QLR soldiers face prosecution for allegedly systematically abusing Mr Mousa at an army interrogation centre. The same ill-treatment allegedly left Mr Talah and the five other men with kidney damage, broken ribs, organ damage, severe bruising and permanent scarring.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=530972

[geek tragedy]

3. Just a couple of bad apples, nothing to see here

and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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[struggle4progress]

5. UK soldiers charged over Iraqi abuse

Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, said on Monday that a further three cases were being considered for possible prosecution by the APA, with another four likely to be referred to the authority.
Military police have opened 75 investigations into cases involving British troops resulting in alleged mistreatment, injuries or the death of Iraqi civilians.
Lord Goldsmith said the Crown Prosecution Service had asked the Metropolitan Police to provide assistance in collecting evidence in one case concerning allegations of the unlawful killing of an Iraqi civilian.
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