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To: unclewest who wrote (41912)5/3/2004 6:39:21 AM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 793597
 
And it will all be done publicly.

U.S. army reprimands six for Iraq prisoner abuse
Mon May 03, 2004 04:45 AM ET
reuters.co.uk

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has reprimanded six senior commissioned and non-commissioned officers in connection with the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, a senior U.S. military official says.

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To: unclewest who wrote (41912)5/3/2004 12:40:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793597
 
Saddam killed hundreds of thousands with no process. Both Americans and Iraqis will note the difference

No they won't. Nobody expects civilized behavior from Arab regimes. Americans are expected to be both perfect and magicians.

It's the whole Israeli/Pal thing writ large. All the NGOs complain bitterly over Israeli mistreatment of prisoners. When a PA policemen shot a prisoner without trial under the very noses of dozens of international reporters, not one paper even reported it, except for Khalid Abu Toameh in the Jerusalem Post.