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chascaz Donating Member (181 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:52 AM
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Pentagon report on Guantanamo deaths is being buried.
Hi Everyone!,

I saw a short blurb this morning on CNN (Asia), it was a pentagon press briefing about the sleeping bag beatings/deaths. It was very short, about 1 minute long, and I only saw it twice. I guess that the official pentagon report was released today. I'm very concerned because I'm out here in Indonesia (Makassar), and they're know to have riots/uprisings when such news comes out. They went around the hotels and hauled Americans away to the airport when the Koran desicration news came out a few months ago. Obviouosly I'm very concerned about this new news, but it seems to have disappeared?????? was I hallucinating????? Has anyone heard/seen anything about this? The short blurb didn't even include the reporter's question, but the pentagon spokes/salesperson seemed to be replying with the answer that "beating people to death isn't in the Army Field Manual." Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 04:06 AM
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1. Here's the story you're looking for.
Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs
Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 3, 2005; Page A01

Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.

(more)

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941.html>
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 04:49 AM
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2. He WALKED INTO A US CAMP!
and cooperated with the US interrogators,
and he gets beaten to death?

WHy does this story make me sick to my stomach?
What has happened to our country?
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