Detainee dies at Camp Bucca (Iraq)

[Barrett808]

Detainee dies at Camp Bucca
October 5, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq -- A 43-year-old male security detainee died this morning at Camp Bucca.

Detainees from his compound carried the unconscious detainee to the compound gate and notified the guards. The detainee was not breathing and the medical staff immediately began CPR.

The medical staff transported the detainee to the field hospital located on Camp Bucca where he died after all life-saving efforts failed to resuscitate him.

The cause of death appears to have been a heart attack.

The remains will be transferred to the family in accordance with standard procedure.

TEXT PROVIDED BY THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER FOR TASK FORCE 134 (DETAINEE OPERATIONS). For more information, contact LTC GUY RUDISILL AT [e-mail].

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051019.txt

[merwin]

1. Odd. I don't think there's a very high rate of heart attacks for 43 year

old Iraqi's...

[JuniperLea]

3. haha

[neweurope]

2. Really strange that those Iraqis always die of heart attacks.

Must be genetic.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[JuniperLea]

4. haha

[Say_What]

5. Heart attack while being tortured n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. While looking to see if there's any more news on this man

(there isn't, yet) I found this news I've NEVER SEEN anywhere, yet, and you may find it interesting:

September 17, 2005
Sheik Beaten, Blinded, Tasered, Released Into the 'New Iraq'

by Aaron Glantz
Sixteen months ago, I published a special investigative report on a deadly U.S. military raid. On May 2, 2004, American soldiers raided a Human Rights Office in the ancient city of Babylon while a peaceful meeting was in process. American forces shot two sheiks in the head and arrested the man who was addressing the crowd. He'd been held in prison since then, but two weeks ago he was released.

The Babylon Human Rights Organization was well known to the U.S. Government. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had praised it during a visit just a few months before. But as sentiment against the occupation spread, the American government changed their minds about the association. During the 2004 raid, the American military arrested Sayyed Adnan Onaibi, a well respected preacher who headed the office of cleric Muqtada Sadr in Hilla.

"When they detained me they accused me of leading attacks on the U.S. military and being a leader of the Mehdi Army," the imam explained from his phone in Hilla this week. "Then they sent me a paper saying I was being held by the C.I.A. Then it turned out I was innocent and so they released me."

Initially, he was held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad. Then, he was transferred to Camp Bucca prison in Southern Iraq. Until recently, inmates at Camp Bucca were warehoused in tents.
(snip/...)

http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=7303


More on the U.S. prison system _Bush is trying to construct in Iraq. The first article was linked from this one:

Parsons, Iraq, and the Bush Cabal
By Sarah Meyer, Sussex, UK


There is an article, "Sheik Beaten, Blinded, Tasered, Released Into The New Iraq," by Aaron Glantz, in which Mr. Rolands of the Christian Peacemaker Team speaks of a new prison being built by Parsons, Inc., in the north of Iraq, presumably near the new American base that is under construction.

Photographs of Parsons involvement with oil, prisons, and the Taji Military Base in Iraq can be viewed on the 'Parsons Iraq Projects' webpage.

Parsons Company founder, Ralph Parsons, an aeronautical engineer, was one of the founding members of the pioneering engineering company Bechtel-McCone-Parsons Corp. in the 1930s. Mr Parsons was killed in a plane crash in Bosnia in 1996 along with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other members of the government.

The present Chairman/CEO, James McNulty, was a program director in the Pentagon's "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative program (link).
(snip/...)

http://www.legitgov.org/news_parsons_iraq_bush_meyer_200905.html