Officer in Korea arrested, after throwing woman's body from bridge

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hmmmm...i posted this news yesterday in DU .... today its now
in Stars & Stripes

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http://www.estripes.com/

Officer in Korea arrested after allegedly throwing woman's body from bridge

A U.S. Army major based at Yongsan Garrison was arrested early Tuesday morning after allegedly throwing a nude female body from a highway bridge outside the city. South Korean police said Tuesday they arrested the officer, whom they identified as Maj. Richard Hart, 45, on an expressway between Seoul and Incheon International Airport around 4 a.m. The officer was questioned and turned over to U.S. military officials Tuesday afternoon, said Detective Oh Hui-sok of the Criminal Case Division at Incheon Soboo Police Station. U.S. Forces Korea issued a brief statement Tuesday confirming a U.S. Army officer had been arrested and that “the U.S. military is cooperating fully with the Korean National Police in this matter.” It also said the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command is involved.

[Quizzical]

1. Does anyone know of a site that follows up on old news reports?

Frequently I remember stories that I read months or years before, wondering how they turned out. This story is one that I'd be interested in how it turns out. There aren't usually articles written telling how an old news story concluded.

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2. like the 2 prisoners beaten to death at US milty interrogation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,909295,00.html

actual headline -

"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military
interrogation base"


'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Friday March 7, 2003
The Guardian

Two prisoners who died while being held for interrogation at the US military base in Afghanistan had apparently been beaten, according to a military pathologist's report. A criminal investigation is now under way into the deaths which have both been classified as homicides.

The deaths have led to calls for an inquiry into what interrogation techniques are being used at the base where it is believed the al-Qaida leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is now also being held. Former prisoners at the base claim that detainees are chained to the ceiling, shackled so tightly that the blood flow stops, kept naked and hooded and kicked to keep them awake for days on end.

The two men, both Afghans, died last December at the US forces base in Bagram, north of Kabul, where prisoners have been held for questioning. The autopsies found they had suffered "blunt force injuries" and classified both deaths as homicides

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welcome to Bush's Fascist State of torture, silencing
dissent, secret arrests, blackmail, propaganda,
political payoffs.

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here's another :


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=384604

American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives.

A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism.

The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive, known only as Dilawar, 22, from the Khost region, died from "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" while another captive, Mullah Habibullah, 30, suffered from blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a "blunt force injury".

US officials previously admitted using "stress and duress" on prisoners including sleep deprivation, denial of medication for battle injuries, forcing them to stand or kneel for hours on end with hoods on, subjecting them to loud noises and sudden flashes of light and engaging in culturally humiliating practices such as having them kicked by female officers.

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