G.I. Crime Photos May Be Evidence

[DoYouEverWonder]

August 5, 2006

On March 13, a group of American soldiers sitting at a checkpoint south of Baghdad were asked to look into a horrible crime: a 14-year-old Iraqi girl had been raped, then killed along with her family in their house nearby in Mahmudiya.

The soldiers knew the house. They had been there only the day before, military prosecutors now say, committing the crime.

Those soldiers, along with others from their checkpoint, walked over and took detailed forensic photographs of the charred and bullet-riddled bodies, as if it were a routine investigation of an insurgent attack, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Now, those photographs are likely to serve as evidence in the military’s prosecution of the case, which opens a new chapter tomorrow when an Article 32 hearing, the rough equivalent of a grand jury proceeding, begins in Baghdad for five soldiers accused in the crime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/world/middleeast/05abuse.html?hp&ex=1154750400&en=815d8ccd0c7f0a28&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Bjornsdotter]

1. That's cold

<The soldiers knew the house. They had been there only the day before, military prosecutors now say, committing the crime.>

It's beyond me how they could have committed the crime, but then to go back and investigate it....that is freakin' cold.

Cheers

[flamingyouth]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2436987