once again we're throwing out the Geneva Convention.
It's a war crime, of course, and Newsday almost says so
by Mohamad Bazzi, Middle East Correspondent
Newsday [Long Island, NY]
May 25, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad's father. When they couldn't find him, they took her husband in his place.
Dhafir Ibrahim has been in U.S. custody for nearly four months. Moayad insists that he is being held as a bargaining chip, and military officials have told her that he will be released when her father surrenders. Her father is a scientist and former Baath party member who fled to Jordan soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
http://www.unknownnews.net/040528hostages.html
Human rights groups: US may be guilty of “collective punishment” war crime in IraqBy Joanne Laurier
17 January 2004
US military forces in Iraq appear to be committing war crimes by detaining the relatives of suspected insurgents and demolishing their homes, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international human rights organization.
In a January 12 letter addressed to US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, HRW executive director Kenneth Roth charged that on at least four occasions over the past two months, houses appear to have been destroyed for the purpose of punishing families of suspected insurgents or to coerce them into cooperation. “In two of these incidents,” HRW’s Roth writes, “U.S. forces also reportedly detained close relatives of a person that the U.S. was attempting to apprehend. In these cases the individuals detained were themselves not suspected of responsibility for any wrongdoing.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/ja...hrww-j17.shtml
Linear Mode
