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2008-08-27 Iraq

U.S. sergeants killed blindfolded Iraqis, statements say

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-27 10:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 This is the result of a couple of things - our extremely prissy rules of engagement and the fact that our adversaries execute American prisoners.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-27 10:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-27 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 It seems to me that if the senior guy at the scene says they need to be interrogated that's all it should take.

Posted by Penguin 2008-08-27 10:55|| 2008-08-27 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Leahy = Rat.

Posted by Menhaden Glomonter1020 2008-08-27 11:18|| 2008-08-27 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't that what is usually done with irregulars?
I mean by every other army in the world, and us too before just a couple of years ago?
Maybe its time to revive the tradition, the exectution of irregulars, spies, saboteurs and criminals in a war zone don't really keep me up at night.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-27 11:36|| 2008-08-27 11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The statements and other court documents were provided by a person close to one of the soldiers in the unit who insisted on anonymity and who has an interest in the outcome of the legal proceedings.

I think I'm going to wait until something official comes out. This reads like something that little idiot at the New Republic would write, less the heavy breathing adjectives.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-27 12:53|| 2008-08-27 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 If the allegations are true then this is a serious breakdown in professionalism in that unit.

If true then these guys are going to do life.

Sad thing is, that if you go by the Geneva Conventions to which we are a signatory, these were illegal combatants and could have simply been summarily executed, as was done.

However the UCMJ says otherwise in this instance, due to orders and the lawyered up ROE.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-27 13:32|| 2008-08-27 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the JAG lawyer's fault. They had made a clean bust and were going to bring them back, but he told them to let them go--in the field. Serious no no.

Even a DA would *never* tell the police who had collared a dangerous and hated perp that they had to let him walk even before they had booked him, by phone.

That would be a great way for the perp to get killed "in an accident" by pissed off cops, right after they had hung up.

The JAG should have told them to bring them in, then a few hours later had somebody else take them away for release--a long way away. And tell them not to come back or the guys who captured them last time would kill them next time.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-27 13:40|| 2008-08-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Then, of course there is the issue of the NYTs fabricating stories in the past.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-27 16:20|| 2008-08-27 16:20|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll reserve judgment until Murtha declares them murderers.

Posted by Kirk 2008-08-27 16:54|| 2008-08-27 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 We can be sure the NYT used the same precise vetting and fact checking methodology they employed in the Edwards affair, not relying upon 'hearsay'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-27 22:10|| 2008-08-27 22:10|| Front Page Top

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