So now we are leaving Iraqi's in cars and letting them suffocate - WTF?

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

Sorry if this is "old news' but I was just listening to air america and Jeaneane talked about Iraqi's being detained in a van and suffocating so I googled searched it - un-fucking believable


http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293775749&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=21&part=1

Nine Iraqi bricklayers detained by security forces on suspicion of involvement with armed fighters have suffocated to death while held for more than 14 hours in a police van.

Three other suspects, who survived the ordeal of being locked up in a van in the sun, were taken to hospital on Monday morning where they were to be interviewed by officials who are investigating the case, an Interior Ministry official said.

The incident began on Sunday in the Amariyah district of western Baghdad when one of 12 bricklayers sustained gunshots during a firefight between armed fighters and police.

[jmcon007]

1. part I heard that's important if it's true.....it was Iraqi forces, not US

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

2. I've looked up several articles .. they all say they were 'bricklayers'

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1752323.php

Nine Iraqi bricklayers detained by security forces on suspicion of involvement with armed fighters have suffocated to death while held for more than 14 hours in a police van.

Three other suspects, who survived the ordeal of being locked up in a van in the sun, were taken to hospital on Monday morning where they were to be interviewed by officials who are investigating the case, an Interior Ministry official said.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi OhNoTheyDidNot!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[madeline_con]

5. ."....it was Iraqi forces, not US"

That is important because the US is training the Iraqi forces.

From some reports, they're just thugs with guns, and are exacerbating the situation with heavy-handed tactics.

[pocket]

11. Iraqi goons, under orders from US goons

we are turning Iraq into a nation of syncophantic thugs

[kestrel91316]

3. I seriously doubt they suffocated ................

they likely roasted.

[madeline_con]

6. they likely roasted

How hot does air have to be before your lungs can't handle it anymore? :shrug:

[liberaltrucker]

8. If you must know

around 140 F. Hell on earth.

[madeline_con]

10. "Hell on earth ..."

Considering it's about 110 in the shade on any given day, it wouldn't take long. :(

People can be such bastards to each other! :cry:

[liberaltrucker]

4. Not too different

than folks from Mexico baking in semi-trailers. Same result, different brown people:grr:

[ailsagirl]

7. Randi reported that people are put in metal boxes and

left in the desert under a blistering sun for days on end.
Sometimes the people in the boxes were "lucky" if their
captors shot bullets into the boxes... then the prisoners
could, at least, get some air.

I thought I'd throw up after hearing that.

Oh God, it's too much.

[ConsAreLiars]

9. here's the story

http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.21A.death.convoy.htm

and a film documentary:
reviews: http://www.peace.ca/afghanmassacre.htm and http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0305/S00151.htm