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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (2257)3/24/2003 10:13:29 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614
 
Now IF those soldiers were executed (and we have no way of knowing) then its a real problem.

Now that we have seen their faces, if they don't come home after the hostilities end, then we can be fairly sure they have been mistreated.

Still, if they develop some 'mysterious disease' and die, I would like to see Bush's case on how it is any different from the prisoners who died thus in Guantanamo:

news.independent.co.uk

America admits suspects died in interrogations

A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism.

The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive, known only as Dilawar, 22, from the Khost region, died from "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" while another captive, Mullah Habibullah, 30, suffered from blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a "blunt force injury".