US War Crimes: Evidence Piling Up
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba in US
By Patrick Martin
Military documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after a lengthy lawsuit under the Freedom of Information 
Act provide important new evidence of American war crimes. The documents include autopsy reports and investigative reports on the deaths of 190 prisoners held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The more than 2,600 pages of documents were turned over to the ACLU on January 14 and made public on the organization’s web site five days later.
An ACLU statement said that 25 to 30 cases were “unjustified homicides.” US military investigators themselves identified many of the deaths as homicides, although there were very few trials or convictions of the soldiers involved.
The ACLU issued a statement declaring: “So far, the documents released by the government raise more questions than they answer, but they do confirm one troubling fact: that no senior officials have been held to account for the widespread abuse of detainees. Without real accountability for these abuses, we risk inviting more abuse in the future.”
Some of the deaths are well known cases of atrocities committed by American soldiers, such as the killing of four prisoners who were shot and then thrown into a Baghdad canal in 2007. Others are previously unknown or not widely reported.
The autopsy reports make for gruesome reading. One document details the beating death in 2003 of Abid Mowhosh, a prisoner at Abu Ghraib, the infamous prison outside Baghdad that was the site of the largest number of deaths.
The autopsy report concludes: “This 56-year-old Iraqi detainee died of asphyxia and chest compression. Significant findings of the autopsy included rib fractures and numerous contusions (bruises), some of which were patterned due to impacts with a blunt object…”
Another autopsy report describes the killing of Farhad Mohamed following a military raid in 2004 in Mosul: “This approximately 27-year-old male civilian, presumed Iraqi national, died in US custody approximately 72 hours after being apprehended. By report, physical force was required during his initial apprehension during a raid. During his confinement, he was hooded, sleep deprived and subjected to hot and cold environmental conditions, including the use of cold water on his body and hood.”
The young man is described as a “well-developed, well-nourished male,” who was six feet tall and 190 pounds. He died after three days of torture. The techniques described—hooding, sleep deprivation, and some form of waterboarding—are prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. Those who are responsible for his death are guilty of a war crime.
The ACLU highlighted one case in which a sergeant walked into a room where the prisoner was lying wounded “and assaulted him… then shot him twice, thus killing him.” The sergeant then told other soldiers present to lie about the murder. Another soldier, a corporal, subsequently shot the corpse in the head.
According to a summary of the documents carried by CNN, US soldiers were suspects in 43 of the deaths, with the rest due to natural causes, outside attacks on US prisons, or fighting among prisoners. In 13 cases, probable cause for a murder prosecution was found and a total of 19 Americans were convicted of some offense.
The ACLU noted that more than one-quarter of all the deaths were attributed to cardiac problems, although most of the prisoners appeared healthy when first detained. In restrained language, the organization said, “This could potentially raise serious questions about the conditions of confinement or interrogation of the detainees.”
Lt. Col. Tanya Bradsher, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told the press, “The fact that so many autopsies and investigative reports exist indicates the seriousness with which the Department takes its responsibilities regarding detainee treatment and accountability.” By this remarkable logic, the 190 deaths in custody are proof, not of the savagery of American imperialism, but of its humanitarian concern.
Equally remarkable is the response of the American media. As of Sunday afternoon, only six mentions of the ACLU report were logged in a Google News search, of which three were by the Iranian English-language Press TV. There was no mention of the material in the New York Times, the Washington Post or any other television network besides CNN.
The ACLU released the documents one day after a federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that the Obama administration can continue to suppress transcripts in which former prisoners of the CIA now held at Guantanamo Bay describe torture and abuse they suffered while in CIA custody.
These prisoners are being denied their own statements, made to Combatant Status Review Tribunals, the hearings held at Guantanamo to determine whether prisoners are “enemy combatants.” The courts have refused to enforce requests for full transcripts of these hearings, filed under the Freedom of Information Act, the same law used by the ACLU to obtain the prisoner autopsy records.
The documents made public by the ACLU are a devastating exposure of the bloody role of American imperialism in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout the world. They deserve further study and careful analysis. Along with the hundreds of thousands of documents made public by WikiLeaks, they form the factual basis for a war crimes indictment of the leaders of the American government.
Bush, Cheney & Co., along with their successors Obama and Biden, and all the top military and foreign policy officials who served in both administrations, are guilty of the most serious crimes against humanity. All these officials deserve to face an international war crimes tribunal.
As a veteran Middle East correspondent and former foreign editor, Patrick Martin has his finger on the pulse of one of the most 
volatile regions in the world. His extensive travels and assignments in the Middle East began in 1971 as a 20-year-old, when he motorcycled across North Africa, and have included four years in the 1990s as The Globe and Mail’s Middle East bureau chief. Most recently, in 2004, he returned to Iraq to cover its handover to civilian authorities and its prospects for a peaceful future.
Across the region, Patrick has witnessed the resurgence of Islam as a political force and has written extensively of its role in emerging democracies.
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Anthony Clifton
27. Jan, 2011
Had a buddy at Ft. Huachuca that was 96C, he said they just promised 'em a trip to disneyland, my how times have changed, EH ? [ http://users.mo-net.com/mlindste/jf052404.html] All the perps need to be arrested, ROUNDED UP, and quarantined, DNA tested…fair trial {swift} and then JUSTICE. Balance the books boys….Time for Cowboys and "Jews". There is no need for a 'Jewish" state, no need for the War on Common Sense. There were never any so-called "jews" in the Old Testament just like there were never any Dallas Cowboys at the Alamo. NONE. Israelites are not "jewish". 90% of "Jewish" are Ashkenazim "proselytes" to Talmudic Judaism…oddly it is an Anti-Israel "Religion" Satanic cult….Think Waco. & Justice. Remember who prints the currency & owns the Media and runs the Crack whore Congress.[ http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=135558;]
profnasty
27. Jan, 2011
One Evil Empire down, one to go.
Me Here
27. Jan, 2011
"One Evil Empire down, one to go ….."
I totally agree !!! ….. the US fatherland will never stand as some truthful beacon of democracy again…. and the Yids are about to go down the toilet the same way….. good riddance I feel.
Adolf
27. Jan, 2011
Does anyone know the name and address of the swine f***ing judaic slut in that picture? Let me know so I can pay her a visit.
old grandma
27. Jan, 2011
Until Bush, Cheney, Rumsfelt, Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfawitz, William Crystal (lapdog of Murdock) & John Bolton are prosecuted for war crimes & all support for Israel ends, the US has no moral ground to stand on. The US is completely run by Israel, our polititions are the most corrupt in the world because the take the biggest bribes, Karazi is so small time compared to them
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28. Jan, 2011
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FreedomEagle
30. Jan, 2011
I have little faith in what the ACLU reports. They have an extreme anti-US bias & they often strech so called "facts" to make the US look extremely "corrupt" & "evil".
So I take this news with a grain of salt.
Baldur
01. Feb, 2011
Terrific article!
This excellent YouTube video exposes these and American war crimes as well, namely the DU poisoning of Irak: .
Keep up the fight for truth and justice.
michael
26. Aug, 2011
why those US soldiers did that to the poor iraqi old man??? So disgusting!!!! You come to iraq to do that???? And yet you tell the world middle east people evil or bad but look what that idiot stupid bitch american soldiers doing then???? is she christians????? Is christians teach all white should behave like animal???? my God!!!! if i got a gun, i will shoot that evil white american bitch!!!!!!
MOISÉS IBRAHIM
30. Aug, 2011
COLEGIO RETAMAR: VIETNAMIZATION CHRISTOLOGY.
GEt INVOLVED. STAND UNITED against the AMERICAN and the EUROPEAN BLOODY CRUSADES, HOLY VIETNAMIZATION, CULTURE of HOLY TORTURES and WAR CRIMES against the THIRD WORLD, submitted to the ABUSIVE FORCES of the SLAVES of IMMORALITY, who have no CONCEPTS, PRECEPTS, IDEOLOGIES and THEOLOGIES.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: LA CRISTOLOGÍA DE LA VIETNAMIZACIÓN.
INVULCRAD. MANTENED UNIDOS ante las SANGUÍNARIAS CRUZADAS AMERICANAS y EUROPEAS SANGUÍNARIAS, la SANTA VIETNAMIZACIÓN, la CULTURA de las SANTAS TORTURAS y los CRÍMENES de GUERRA contra el TERCER MUNDO, sometido a las FUERZAS ABUSIVAS de los ESCLAVOS de la INMORALIDAD, carentes de CONCEPTOS, PRECEPTOS, IDEOLOGÍAS y TEOLOGÍAS.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: CHRISTOLOGY AND OPUS DEILOGY PROSTITUTION.
The AMERICAN INCOHERENT EMPIRE and the IRRATIONAL EUROPEAN PLANEY have never been interested in PROTECTING the PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS against ZIONISM WAR CRIMES for over than SIX DECADES. They have never been in charge of demanding the ESSENTIAL PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS and being responsible of their INFRA HUMAN CONDITIONS. They have even PREVENTED them from BREAD, in order to BUSHITLER COMMANDEMTS, While STRAY DOGS have FOOD. CHRISTOLOGY is SATANITY until ETHERNITY. OPUS DEILOGY is the PROSTITUTION with HUMAN RIGHTS and the ASSAULTS on REASON.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: CRISTOLOGÍA Y OPUS DEILOGÍA PROSTITUCIONAL.
El IMPERIO INCOHERENTE AMERICANO y el PLANETA IRRACIONAL EUROPEA nunca han tenido intéres en PROTEGER a los CIVILES PALESTINOS ante los CRÍMENES de GUERRA del SIONISMO durante más de SEIS DECÁDAS. No se han encargado de REQUERIR los DERECHOS ELEMENTALES de los PALESTINOS y ser RESPONSABLES de sus INFRA CONDICIONES HUMANAS. Les han impedido el PAN, según los MANDAMIENTOS de BUSHITLER, mientras los PERROS CALLEJEROS tienen ALIMENTOS. La CRISTOLOGÍA es una SATANIDAD hasta la ETERNIDAD. La OPUS DEILOGÍA es la PROSTITUCIÓN con los DERECGOS HUMANOS y los ASALTOS A LA RAZÓN.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: FASCIST OPUS DEILOGY. VATICAN OPUS DEI BUSHITLERIST CREED AND CATECHISM.
BUSHITLERISM is the CREED and the CATECHISM of the WESTERN CHRISTOLOGY at the ERA of TECHNOLOGY which has been used as an INSTRUMENT of ATROCITIES, BARABARIES, GENOCIDES, TORTURES, DESTRUCTIONS, ETHNIC CLEANSINGS and WAR CRIMES against the THIRD WORLD, whose RETROGRESSION is ENDLESS, because of the INCESANT CHRISTOLOGICAL WARS and DESTRUCTIONS, in INVISIBLE CASSOCKS, HIJABS and BURKHAS, in the NAME of PROGRESS, CIVILIZATION and CHRISTOLOGY. The THIRD WORLD has been SENTENCED to PAY OFF the WESTERN PROGRESS and TECHNOLOGY, on base of BARRELS of BLOOD for the HLOY RED CROSS, which has SUPERAVIT for AGES.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: OPUS DEILOGIA FASCISTA. CREDO Y CATECISMO BUSHITERISTA VATICANO OPUS DEI.
El BUSHITLERISMO es el CREDO y el CATECISMO de la CRISTOLOGIA OCCIDENTAL en la ERA de la TECNOLOGIA, que se ha utilizado como INSTRUMENTO de ATROCIDADES, BARBARIIES, GENOCIDIOS, TORTURAS, DESTRUCCIONES, LIMPIEZAS ÉTNICAS y CRÍMENES de GUERRA contra el TERCER MUNDO, Cuyo RETROGRESIÓN es INACABABLE, debido a las INCESANTES GUERRAS y DESTRUCCIONES en SOTANITAS, HIJABS, y BURKAS INVISIBLES, en el NOMBRE del PROGRESO, la CIVILIZACIÓN y la CRISTOLOGÍA. El TERCER MUNDO ha sido SENTENCIADO a AMORTIZAR el PROGRESO OCCIDENTAL y la TECNOLOGÍA, a base de BARRILES de SANGRE, para la SANTA CRUZ ROJA que tiene SUPERÁVIT para SIGLOS.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: DEADS GO FOR WALK ON THE LEADS OF DOGS. CHRISTOLOGIST and OPUS DEILOGIST LORD OF WARS, LORD OF CULTURE OF VIOLENCE, THE LORD OF CULTURE OF TORTURES, AND THE LORD OF THEOLOGIES OF DEATH.
The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE make DEADS go on the LEADS of DOGS by the WORK and the GRACE of the HOLY SPIRIT. CHRISTOLOGY and CHRISTIAN ZIONISM have been born to rule SAVAGERY and CANNIBALISM on the PLANET. REJOICE and BE GLAD HOLY MARY that your BLOODY SONS have made MAN from the THIRD WORLD go to WALKS on the LEADS of DOGS. WORLDWIDE NATIONES have noticed that they have turned the BLOOD of the STEWED BODIES of CHILDREN at CANAÁ into WATER for WATERNING EARTH, where CHRIST might have turned WATER into WINE. HAIL MARY, FULL of GRACE, the LORD of WARS, the LORD of CULTURE of VIOLENCE, the LORD of CULTURE of TORTURES, and the LORD of THEOLOGIES of DEATH is with THEE.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: LOS MUERTOS VAN DE PASEOS EN LAS CUERDAS DE PERROS. EL SEÑOR DE GUERRAS, EL SEÑOR DE LA CULTURA DE VIOLENCIA, EL SEÑOR DE LA CULTURA DE LAS TORTURAS, Y EL SEÑOR DE LAS TEOLOGÍAS DE LA MUERTE CRISTOLÓGICOS Y OPUS DEILOGOS.
El CAMINO, la VERDAD, y la VIDA hacen ir a los MUERTOS de PASEO en las CUERDAS de PERROS, por OBRA y GRACIA del ESPÍRITU SANTO. La CRISTOLOGÍA y el SIONISMO CRISTIANO han nacido para gobernar el SALVAJISMO y el CANIBALISMO en el PLANETA. GOZÁTE y ALEGRÁTE SANTA MARÍA por tus MALDITOS HIJOS que han hecho llevar al HOMBRE del TERCER MUNDO de PASEOS en las CUERDAS de PERROS. Las NACIONES del MUNDO se han dado sido testigos que han convertido la SANGRE de los CUERPOS TROCEADOS de NIÑOS de CANAÁ en AGUA para REGAR la TIERRA, donde CRISTO puede haber convertido el AGUA en VINO. DIOS TE SAVE MARÍA, LLENA ERES DE GRACIA, el SEÑOR de las GUERRAS, el SEÑOR de la CULTURA de VIOLENCIA, el SEÑOR de la CULTURA de las TORTURAS, y el SEÑOR de las TEOLOGÍAS de la MUERTE está CONTIGO.
COLEGIO RETAMAR: A THIRD WORLD TORTURED HUMAN BEING CROSS COVERED WITH SHIT. OPUS DEILOGY AT ABU GHRAIB AND GAZA AUSCHWITZ IN INVISIBLE CASSOCKS. TEACH and PREACH WITH THE HOLY CROSS ON YOUR SHOULDERS.
The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE have given birth to the MODERN VATICAN OPUS DEI HOLY CROSS at ABU GHRAIB.
FATHER BUSHITLER, SON BLAIR BIN BUSHITLER and ASSNAR BIN HOLY SPIRIT have CONSTITUTED the HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRINITY of the BLOODTHIRSTY ORGIES, the CONCEPTS of VIOLENCE, the PRECEPTS of ABUSES and the THEOLOGY of DEATH at ABU GHRAIB, to CONSECRATE the CHRISTIAN CULTURE of the HOLY TORTURES. The HOLY WOODEN CHRISTIAN CROSS has been REPLACED by A TORTURED HUMAN BEING from the THIRD WORLD, having his ARMS in CROSS and his NAKED BODY is COVERED by SHIT from BUCKETS.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: LA CRUZ DE UN HUMANO TORTURADO DEL TERCER MUNDO, CUBIERTO DE HECES. OPUS DEIOLOGÍA EN ABU GHRAIB Y GAZA AUSCHWITZ EN SOTANITAS INVISIBLES. ENSEÑA Y PREDICA CON LA SANTA CRUZ A HOMBROS.
El CAMINO, la VERDAD y la VIDA han dado nacimiento a la SANTA CRUZ MODERNA VATICANA OPUS DEI en ABU GHRAIB. El PADRE BUSHITLER, el HIJO BLAIR BIN BUSHITLER y ASSNAR BIN ESPÍRITU SANTO han constituido la SANTÍSIMA TRINIDAD TERRENAL de las ORGÍAS SANGUÍNARIAS, los CONCEPTOS de la VIOLENCIA, los PRECEPTOS ABUSIVOS, y la TEOLOGÍA de la MUERTE, para CONSAGRAR la CULTURA CRISTIANA de las SANTAS TORTURAS. La SANTA CRUZ de MADERA ha sido SUSTUIDA por un SER HUMANO TORTURADO del TERCER MUNDO, teniendo los BRAZOS EN CRUZ como señal de DOLOR por CRISTO y su CUERPO DESNUDO está CUBIERTO por HECES procedentes de CUBOS.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: THE MODERN VATICAN OPUS DEI HOLY CROSS UPSIDE DOWN BY WORL AND GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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The MODERN VATICAN OPUS DEI HOLY CROSS has been placed UPSIDE DOWN, by the WORK and the GRACE of the HOLY SPIRIT. CHRIST SAVE ME FROM YOUR BLOODY FOLLOWERS who are devoted to SEXUAL RAPES. SPIRITUAL PROSTITUTION, SEXUAL ABUSES and WAR CRIMES, against the THIRD WORLD, submitted to the FORCES of ABUSIVE POWERS.
The WAY of OPUS DEI WAY directs YOU to the WAY of 999 WAYS of the ASSAULTS on REASON in INVISIBLE CASSOCKS, HIJABS and BURKHAS. The TRUTH takes you to a THOUSAND an ONE ASSAULTS on REASON. The LIFE leads you to the CULTURE of HOLY TORTURES and the THEOLOGIES of DEATH.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: LA MODERNA SANTA CRUZ VATICANA OPUS DEI AL REVÉS, POR OBRA Y GRACIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO.
La SANTA CRUZ MODERNA del VATICANO OPUS DEI se ha puesto al REVÉS, por OBRA y GRACIA del ESPÍRITU SANTO. CRISTO salváme de tus MALDITOS SEGUIDORES, que están consagrados a las VIOLACIONES SEXUALES, la PROSTITUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL, los ABUSOS SEXUALES y CRÍMENES de GUERRA contra el TERCER MUNDO, sometidos a las FUERZAS de los PODERES ABUSIVOS.
El CAMINO del CAMINO del OPUS DEI te dirige al CAMINO de 999 CAMINO de ASALTOS a la RAZÓN en SOTANITAS, HJABS y BURKAS INVISIBLES. la VERDAD te lleva a las MIL y un ASALTOS a la RAZÓN. La VIDA te conduce a la CULTURA de la SANTA TORTURA y las TEOLOGÍAS de la MUERTE.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: BARRELS OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC BLOOD. VATICAN OPUS DEILOGY IS SATANITY UNTIL ETHERNITY.
GAZA AUSCHWITZ has been a DAMNED WORK and a BLOODY GRACE of the CHRISTIAN HOLY SPIRIT. CHRISTIANS are BORN CRUSADERS. They are MADE LEGAL TERRORISTS, BAPTIZED to DIE AWAY from their HOMELANDS and they come to the end as MERCENARIES. GAZA AUSCHWITZ SIEGE reflects the EUROPEAN IMMORAL SLAVERY and VATICAN CHURCH FASCISM and CHRISTIAN ZIONIST SPIRITUAL PROSTITUTION. AMERICANISM and EUROPEISM have been turned into the WORLDWIDE LEGAL TERRORISM and WAR CRIMES against the THIRD WORLD. WEST has made TECHNOLOGY an INSTRUMENT of ATROCITIES, GENOCIDES, TORTURES, DESTRUCTIONS, ETHNIC CLEANSINGS and WAR CRIMES. The WESTERN FORCES have been DIRECTED to convert the BARRELS of ARABIC and ISLAMIC OIL into BARRELS BLOOD.
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COLEGIO RETAMAR: BARRILES DE SANGRE ÁRABE E ISLÁMICA. LA OPUS DEILOGÍA VATICANA ES UNA SATANIDAD HASTA LA ETERNIDAD.
GAZA AUSCHWITZ ha sido una MALDITA OBRA y una PUÑETERA GRACIA del ESPÍRITU SANTO CRISTIANO. Los CRISTIANOS nacen CRUZADOS. Se hacen TERRORÍSTAS LEGALES, están bautizados a MORIR fuera de sus TIERRAS NATALES, y acaban como MERCENARIOS, El EMBARGO de GAZA AUSCHWITZ refleja la ESCLAVITUD IMMORAL EUROPEA, el FASCISMO de la ILGESIA VATICANA y la PROSTITUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL CRISTIANO SIONISTA. El AMERICANISMO y el EUROPEISMO se han convertido en el TERRORISMO LEGAL MUNDIAL y los CRIMENES de GUERRA contra los más POBRES de los POBRES. OCCIDENTE ha hecho de la TECNOLOGIA un INSTRUMENTO de ATROCIDADES, GENOCIDIOS, TORTURAS, DESTRUCCIONES, LIMPIEZAS ÉTNICAS y CRIMENES de GUERRA. Las FUERZAS OCCIDENTALES OCCIDENTALES han sido DIRGIDAS para convertir los BARRILES de PETROLEO ÁRABE e ISLÁMIC en BARRILES de SANGRE.
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AFTAB
29. Aug, 2012
The girl is terrorist she tied a belt of dog on that old man throat.If it is not terrorism then what is it?
Tony Cisneros
03. Nov, 2012
If One Picture Is Worth A THOUSAND WORDS;
Then,
ALL The Photographs Released Via The Freedom Of Information Act IS WORTH A KA-ZILLION TRILLION-PAGES OF DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE ! ! !
THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH SHALL NEVER EVER BE HIDDEN ! ! !
Truthfully, Honestly & Sincerely Yours,
Tony Cisneros, 2011 Candidate For City Treasurer, City Of Chicago, State Of Illinois, United States Of America.