From here: (http://www.bestofdesign.co.uk/antiwarblog/archives/000047.html)

The ugly truth of America's Camp Cropper, a story to shame us all
By Robert Fisk
22 July 2003, Independent

Now here's a story to shame us all. It's about America's shameful prison camps in Iraq. It's about the beating of prisoners during interrogation.

"Sources" may be a dubious word in journalism right now, but the sources for the beatings in Iraq are impeccable. This story is also about the gunning down of three prisoners in Baghdad, two of them "while trying to escape". But most of all, it's about Qais Mohamed al-Salman. Qais al-Salman is just the sort of guy the US ambassador Paul Bremer and his dead-end assistants need now. He hated Saddam, fled Iraq in 1976, then returned after the "liberation" with a briefcase literally full of plans to help in the restoration of his country's infrastructure and water purification system....


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Thank you for bringing this to the attention of sciforums.

This only shows the hypocrisy and the double standard that we are suffering from, in one hand, the USA and the west preach tolerance and human rights on muslims and on the other, they treat us like sub-humans.

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What's wrong with shooting prisoners that try to escape? Why should the soldiers endanger their own lives, or even risk the escape of that prisoner?

The consequences are sometimes too great to avoid blood. And before telling me how ruthless and unethical I am, you should consider the idea that the American military has principles and accountability.

What's wrong with shooting prisoners that try to escape? Why should the soldiers endanger their own lives, or even risk the escape of that prisoner?
I know that goofy cut down the size of my quote, so maybe you could ask that question through a lack of information. So read the article I linked to in its entirity and then reconsider your post.

bah
afgani pow were transported in shipping containers in 100 degree temps. dead dead dead! you wanna eyeball brutality, look there

And look away from Mugabe...

Look away from mugabe? Why? I dont see the USA invading Zimbabwe, or Burma etc, so they must be nice civilised countries, eh?

Zimbabwe is a good example fo someone taking it to the limit before any international interevention can get going. If he seriously started killing people, i dont mean the lynching etc, there would be much greater outcry. The UK is handicapped in that mugabe can partly play the race card, but ultimately we can only help the Zimbabweans get rid of him however they want.