[Marxism] Spreading more liberty: Lies and Lessons

["M. Junaid Alam" <junaidalam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for
the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier."


-US Senator Zel Miller

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   4 Navy Commandos Are Charged in Abuse


"The charges against three Navy Seals and another sailor attached to a
Seal unit, who were not identified but include at least one junior
officer, include assault, maltreatment of detainees and giving false
statements to investigators, according to a Navy statement and Navy
officials. A spokesman for the Naval Special Warfare Command in San
Diego, Cmdr. Jeffrey Bender, said more Seals would probably be charged
"in the near future" as part of a widening inquiry into abuses in Iraq
between October 2003 and April 2004.

In a second case, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is looking
into possible abuse by Navy Seals against an Iraqi detainee in April, a
Navy official said. That detainee also died later while in custody.

Military officials said it was highly unusual to charge Special
Operations forces with offenses committed on the battlefield.

Investigators have reported that one of the men charged struck the
detainee with a rifle butt after the prisoner resisted arrest.

The body of the detainee, pictured wrapped in plastic and packed in ice,
became one of the most infamous images to emerge during the
prisoner-abuse case.

....

When he resisted arrest, a Seal "butt-stroked" him in the head with his
rifle, according to the report by three Army generals released last week.

The Seals, part of a secretive Special Operations forces/C.I.A. task
force that operated in Iraq, then took Jamadi to a C.I.A. camp, a Navy
official said. From there, C.I.A. representatives brought him hooded to
Abu Ghraib, but did not register him with prison authorities, the Army
report found. The prisoner was placed in a shower stall, attended by two
C.I.A. officials.

About 45 minutes later, a soldier was summoned to the shower where
Jamadi, face down, hooded with a sandbag and handcuffed behind his back,
was found dead. The body was packed in ice, then photographed and
removed the next day on a litter to make it appear as if he were only
ill, the Army report concluded.

While the Army report, conducted by Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, underscored
that many details were still under investigation, an autopsy concluded
that the prisoner had "died of a blood clot in the head, likely as a
result of injuries he sustained during apprehension."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/international/middleeast/04abuse.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1094310029-JmrRwxHC5pPNW9Cd6A2TrQ
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The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had
"freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated.
We shall not forget this."

-1972 Grand Council of American Indians


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