Sunday, February 18, 2007
They're ANIMALS! ANIMALS, I Say!...
...oh, they're us? Oh. Well, sorry, never mind, move along then, nothing to see here...0 comments
Jailed 2 Years, Iraqi Tells of Abuse by Americans
This is such a damning quote:
Through it all, Mr. [Laith al-]Ani was never actually charged with a crime; he said he was questioned only once during his more than two years at the camp.
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“He was released because the board that reviewed his case didn’t believe he any longer posed a threat,” said First Lt. Lea Ann Fracasso, a spokeswoman for detention operations, in a written answer to questions. “He was originally detained as a security threat. I don’t have anything more.”
...Driving While Iraqi, obviously.
Maybe this had something to do with his finally seeing an end to his nightmare:
Just three weeks earlier, his last letter home — with its poetic yearnings and a sketch of a caged pink heart — appeared in The Times in one of a series of articles on Iraq’s troubled detention and justice system.
Arrested for no reason. Held for two years. Questioned once. Abused often. Forced to say it was Club Med to finally get out. His whereabouts passed on to the Shiite Death Squads.
Sounds more like your typical, local corrupt police precinct. Maybe Mississippi or Alabama in the early '60s, with Ani playing "the Negro."
Hey, the leadership at SITCOMM may be scum. But they're OUR scum.
This is what the Neo-cons of Cheney and Rumsfeld have made out of our once proud and vaunted military.
posted by Gotham 3:24 PM
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