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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?

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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (1339)3/16/2005 1:40:04 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) of 9838
 
US Military: A Lot More Prisoners Were Killed In Custody Than We Thought

Ok, so today the military says that -- so far -- 26 prisoners may very well be the victims of homicide. That's 400% higher than the figure it gave to Congress just one week ago. Oops.

"Only one of the deaths occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, officials said, showing how broadly the most violent abuses extended beyond those prison walls and contradicting early impressions that the wrongdoing was confined to a handful of members of the military police on the prison's night shift," per the New York Times.

So today we find out that along with raping, sodomizing, torturing, and humiliating prisoners of war in violation of international law, US law, and common decency, we've been killing them as well. And we've been killing a lot more of them than we'd been led to believe.
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