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Wining Hearts & Minds?>
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Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:28:45 GMT
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Wining Hearts & Minds?
I found this quote from Brigadier
General Janis Karpinski regarding the lack of information about the ~10,000
“detainees” she was in charge of in Iraq: “We’re not trying to withhold
information from you. Some information remains classified for security reasons”.
What is clear about this issue is that there were concerns about “detainees”
before the
CBS allegations, & that there are more abuses of power which are not being investigated:
“The death of Adil Abd al-Karim al-Kawwaz is a case in point. On August 7,
al-Kawwaz was driving home from his in-law’s house in Baghdad with his wife and
four children just prior to the evening curfew. It was dark and he did not see
the U.S. soldiers from the 1st Armored Division operating a checkpoint with
armored vehicles and heavy-caliber guns. No signs or lights indicating their
presence were visible, and al-Kawwaz did not understand he was supposed to stop.
He drove too close and the soldiers opened fire, killing him and three of his
children, the youngest of whom was eight years old. This shooting was not an
isolated event. At checkpoints, during raids, or after roadside attacks, edgy
U.S. soldiers have resorted to lethal force with distressing speed.
Compounding the problem is a lack of accountability for unlawful deaths.
Coalition soldiers and civil authorities, and even independent non-Iraqi
contractors engaged by them, are immune from Iraqi law, under the terms of
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Decree 17.”
Scott A
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