NYT: Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees

[grytpype]

Add this to the list of war crimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/middleeast/28abuse.html?pagewanted=2

Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: July 28, 2006

The mission that led to the killings started at dawn on May 9, when soldiers with the Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division landed in a remote area near a former chemical plant not far from Samarra, according to legal documents and lawyers for the accused soldiers. It was the site of a suspected insurgent training camp and was considered extremely dangerous.

Just before leaving, the soldiers had been given an order to “kill all military-age men” at the site by a colonel and a captain, said Paul Bergrin and Michael Waddington, the lawyers who are disputing Sergeant Lemus’s account. Military officials in Baghdad have declined to comment on whether such an order, which would have been a violation of the law of war, might have been given.

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Sergeant Lemus gave investigators the following account of what happened next: About 10 minutes later, the squad leader gathered Sergeant Lemus and three other soldiers in a house nearby, telling them to “bring it in close” so he could talk quietly to them. Sergeant Girouard spoke in a “low-toned voice” and “talked with his hands,” making clear he was going to kill the three Iraqis.


“I didn’t like the idea, so I walked toward the door,” Sergeant Lemus said in his statement. “He looked around at everyone and asked if anyone else had an issue or a problem.” No one spoke.

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[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Everytime I hear about this

shit, I wanna :puke:

[Monkeyman]

2. These MF's should be hung as a vet I want 10 mins alone with them

[w4rma]

4. It would be better to take your anger out on the folks who sent them there

and put them in this insane situation.

[OneBlueSky]

3. not excusing this in any way, but when you put the military . . .

into insane circumstances, is it any wonder that some of them go insane? . . .

[tanyev]

5. Now we got King Herod running our army?

[Barrett808]

6. K & R

[MsMagnificent]

7. and the most emailed article at the NYT

is about communal Yoga mats & germs.

What a country.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. so much for "Blind support for our troops"

In every war there are excesses, mistakes and crimes. Humans are human. It can't be helped. But Abu Grhaib. the rape/murder earlier this year, the use of phosphorus and more - too many of these events have had to be pushed or supported by those ciVILEians who planned this damned war in the first place.

[hootinholler]

9. Ok so go sign the petition in my sig line...

Please?

-Hoot