August 3, 2006
Detainees
G.I.’s Say Officers Ordered Killing of Young Iraqi Men
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug. 2 — Four soldiers from an Army combat unit that killed three Iraqi men in a raid in May testified Wednesday that they had received orders from superior officers to kill all the military-age men they encountered.
The soldiers gave their accounts at a military hearing here to determine if four colleagues should face courts-martial on charges that they carried out a plan to murder the three Iraqis, whom they had seized after an assault on what they were told was an insurgent stronghold northwest of Baghdad.
Their testimony gave credence to statements from two defendants that an officer had told their platoon to “kill all military-age males” in the assault, regardless of any threat they posed. That officer, Col. Michael Steele, has declined to testify, an unusual decision for a commander.
full report @ fairuse
War crime is committed in Iraq. But it is the leader who committed the major crime and led by example how to rape a country and kill whosoever resisted. Bush is the ultimate war criminal, so are others who participate in the rape of Iraq.
The news is from august of last year but still relevant.
Detainees
G.I.’s Say Officers Ordered Killing of Young Iraqi Men
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug. 2 — Four soldiers from an Army combat unit that killed three Iraqi men in a raid in May testified Wednesday that they had received orders from superior officers to kill all the military-age men they encountered.
The soldiers gave their accounts at a military hearing here to determine if four colleagues should face courts-martial on charges that they carried out a plan to murder the three Iraqis, whom they had seized after an assault on what they were told was an insurgent stronghold northwest of Baghdad.
Their testimony gave credence to statements from two defendants that an officer had told their platoon to “kill all military-age males” in the assault, regardless of any threat they posed. That officer, Col. Michael Steele, has declined to testify, an unusual decision for a commander.
full report @ fairuse
War crime is committed in Iraq. But it is the leader who committed the major crime and led by example how to rape a country and kill whosoever resisted. Bush is the ultimate war criminal, so are others who participate in the rape of Iraq.
The news is from august of last year but still relevant.
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