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German Soldiers: Take No Prisoners (For The Wrong Reason)
From the German news agency DPA, by way of The Wall Street Journal: Germany, which joined France in an unsuccessful effort to keep Saddam Hussein in power, is part of the American-led coalition in Afghanistan. But it?s still hard to tell whose side Berlin is on. Get a load of this report from the German news agency DPA: Military lawyers have advised German elite soldiers in Afghanistan not to take prisoners to avoid having to turn them over to US forces, Der Spiegel magazine reported. In its latest issue, the Hamburg-based weekly cited military lawyers as saying that there were "too many open questions" about the Americans? treatment of prisoners, a view now seen as being confirmed in the wake of the revelations of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Mike Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-05-21 |
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