On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:12:29 +0200, "John Schmitt" <John
Schmitt@webpost.nl> wrote:
>> Alle de der troede på løgnede om at det kun skulle være enkelte brådne
>> kar, der var årsag til overgrebene i Irak og Afghanistan, kan godt
>> berede sig på at blive afsløret som politisk naive.
>>
>> Citat:
>> WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Three former members of the Army's 82nd
>> Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely
>> beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence
>> on the insurgency
>> citat slut.
>>
>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/politics/24abuse.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
>>
>> Selve artiklen afdækker et tydeligt mønster for overgrebene, men det
>> politiske system vil garanteret fortsætte med at tørre ansvaret for
>> tortur af på de lavere rangerede i systemet.
>
> Captain Fishback, who has served combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, gave
>Human Rights Watch and Senate aides his long account only after his efforts
>to report the abuses to his superiors were rebuffed or ignored over 17
>months, according to Senate aides and John Sifton, one of the Human Rights
>Watch researchers who conducted the interviews. Moreover, Captain Fishback
>has expressed frustration at his civilian and military leaders for not
>providing clear guidelines for the proper treatment of prisoners.
>
>17 måneder - tålmodig mand . . .
Også en modig mand for hans aktion betyder samtidig at han ingen
fremtid har i det offentlige system i USA. Hans karrieremuligheder er
fortid.
Regards Croc®