Daily Kos - August 3, 2005

Not Torture, Just Murder

by mcjoan

Wed Aug 3rd, 2005 at 17:32:46 PDT

Update [2005-8-3 20:32:46 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando.

Premeditated murder, in fact. Documents released for the trials of two soldiers charged in the killing of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush paint a nauseating picture of the process by which the brutal dentention and death of prisoners was plotted and carried out by the military and by the CIA.

[T]he Dec. 2, 2003, autopsy, quoted in classified documents and released with redactions, showed that Mowhoush had "contusions and abrasions with pattern impressions" over much of his body, and six fractured ribs. Investigators believed a "long straight-edge instrument" was used on Mowhoush, as well as an "object like the end of an M-16" rifle.

"Although the investigation indicates the death was directly related to the non-standard interrogation methods employed on 26 NOV, the circumstances surrounding the death are further complicated due to Mowhoush being interrogated and reportedly beaten by members of a Special Forces team and other government agency (OGA) employees two days earlier," said a secret Army memo dated May 10, 2004.

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