Pictures From the Baha Mousa Inquiry
IN September 2003, Baha Mousa, an Iraqi civilian died in Iraq. He died whilst in custody of the British.
An Inquiry is established under the Inquiries Act 2005 and is chaired by the Right Honourable Sir William Gage, a retired Court of Appeal judge. His terms of reference are:
“To investigate and report on the circumstances surrounding the death of Baha Mousa and the treatment of those detained with him, taking account of the investigations which have already taken place, in particular where responsibility lay for approving the practice of conditioning detainees by any members of the 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in Iraq in 2003, and to make recommendations.”
That inquiry is underway. Pictures from it are below – and they are disturbing:
Posted: 14th, July 2009 | In: Media Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 14th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
AGW, I share your thoughts in the brutalities that have been shown, and I’ve expresed my thoughts quite vocally with older friends who have served WWII, in Korean War or in Vietnam War on just what gives that our boys today are showing such brutal ways in dealing with the prisoners. I’ve been looked at as if I have two heads with not a brain in either one. From what I gather, AGW, what we see today is rather the norm in War time. “…You expect us to say please and thank you, you beat the shit out them until they talk, there is no time in fighting a war to be nice to the enemy you and your buddies lives are on the line …” “you can’t afford to yell through a closed door or hut you a friendly or enemy in there, you shoot first and ask questions later…that place could be boobytrapped when you walk inside.’..” …you don’t have time to take prisoners, you shoot them and move on and keep on fighting, you are there to fight a war ..”
In WWI, WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War there was news coverage and filming, but how much of that filmed coverage, if any, showed Allies brutality to the enemy? Lots was shown of the enemy’s brutality to the Allies. Then, without saying, news rightfully so filmed and showed the liberation of the Concentration Camps.
Today we have the small pocket size video cameras, cell phones with cameras or video capabilities carried by our servicemen, and vast extensive worldwide coverage of the War by reporters for newspapers and the TV media who are right up there on the front lines (look at ones who have been killed and/or seriously hurt covering the War in Iraq). Our servicemen/women use those small videos, cellphone cameras to film all the shit that they are doing to the enemy and/or foolish enough to have a friend film or tape them torturing the prisoners and somehow are proud of what it shows. Look at how some got caught over here because they proudly sent the pics to friends and family members who weren’t so proud when they received them.
So, have things really changed during War, AGW? Or maybe we just weren’t aware or didn’t care to know of the atrocities our troops committed in a just War which they were proud to go off and fight to protect our countries and freedom.
I don’t know how many tours your boys are sent back over to Iraq to serve but ours are on their 3 and 4th tours over and they are speaking out more and more against going back over.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:45 am
Waterboarding begins to look a safer aggressive interrogation technique.
Does the Minister of Defence accept full-responsibility for the obivous under-equipping and poor training in this area of military activity?