british troops video

[silverchair]

has anyone seen this yet? it really makes me angry. i don't care if these individuals provoked the beating. it's still uncalled for. i'm surprised more iraqis aren't targeting british soldiers especially after this incident.

http://www.break.com/index/britishiraq12.html

[mom cat]

1. Not only targeting them, they have taken away their immunity from

prosecution:
First, the negative publicity of the video of British soldiers beating and abusing young Iraqis has generated a backlash for British occupation forces they’ve yet to face in Iraq.

Indicative of this, Abdul Jabbar Waheed, the head of the Misan provincial council in southern Iraq, announced his councils’ decision to lift the immunity British forces have enjoyed, so that the soldiers who beat the young Iraqis can be tried in Iraqi courts. Former U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer had issued an order granting all occupation soldiers and western contractors immunity to Iraqi law when he was head of the CPA…but this province has now decided to lift that so the British soldiers can be investigated and tried under Iraqi law.

This deeply meaningful event, if replicated around Iraq, will generate a huge rift between the occupiers and local governments. A rift which, of course, the puppet government in Baghdad will be unable to mend.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000365.php
read the whole article ... it is loaded with info.