Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Originally Posted by Dom Heffner
When former Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush died in U.S. custody on Nov. 26, 2003, American military officials issued a press release saying that he had passed away of natural causes after complaining of feeling sick.
As Josh White explains in today's Washington Post, Mowhoush died while stuffed in a sleeping bag, wrapped in an electrical cord, after a CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten him severely with their fists, a club and a rubber hose.
Two Army soldiers from Fort Carson, Colo., have been charged in Mowhoush's death, and two more who allegedly played a role face other military punishment. As for the CIA's role? The agency's inspector general has launched an investigation, White says, but the agency itself won't comment.
www.salon.com
Since two Army soldiers have been charged in Mowhoush's death, then it would stand to reason that Mowhoush did not 'pass away of natural causes after complaining of feeling sick' like American military officials claimed in a press release back in '03.
Three things:
1. Don't use torture. John McCain will tell you why.
2. If you do use torture don't proclaim it, but definantly don't out and out lie and say someone died of natural causes because then even more credibility is lost.
3. Punish those that made the decision to utlilize torture, not those that were ordered or coerced or manipulated to do so.
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Perhaps the member who started the thread has a trend on the non-BB side?
Yeah, and it isn't bringing up Ted Kennedy or ad hominen attacks, either. :)
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Originally Posted by Rojo
A quick prediction: when the "facts" you eagerly await arrive, your silence will deafen.
Rojo, by "facts" I that means a softened/fact-deprived version that appears in a right-wing mouthpiece, ala the Drudge Report.
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Originally Posted by registerthis
Rojo, by "facts" I that means a softened/fact-deprived version that appears in a right-wing mouthpiece, ala the Drudge Report.
:deadhorse
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
You can drag a dead horse to knowledge but you can't make him think.
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Originally Posted by pedro
If we, as a country, are going to claim the moral high road, then we must be held to higher standard. I don't see what is so complicated about this.
I don't either....<shrugs>
Re: The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
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Originally Posted by Rojo
You can drag a dead horse to knowledge but you can't make him think.
Truer words were never spoken.