Thursday, December 02, 2004
Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
Iraq war profiteering covered in the new Seven Stories Press book Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (spotted via Zentronix | Related: CorpWatch - holding Corporations Accountable)
Nice:
[S]some detainees were arrested because targets were not at home when homes were raided. A family member was instead captured and then released when the target turned himself in -- a practice that, Herrington wrote, "has a 'hostage' feel to it."from the Herrington report covered in the article "U.S. Generals in Iraq Were Told of Abuse Early, Inquiry Finds." (Washington Post)
A separate report by the Center for Army Lessons Learned, issued this past May and intended for internal use, gave the sense that some Army tactics served to "alienate common Iraqis who initially supported the coalition."
"It is a practice in some U.S. units to detain family members of anti-coalition suspects in an effort to induce the suspects to turn themselves in, in exchange for the release of their family members," the report stated. The CALL report also was critical of the delays in notifying family members about the status of detainees held in U.S. custody, reminding family members of Hussein's tactics.
Ukrainian election protest rap - but where was the US counterpart after Nov. 2?
Al-Qaeda is not the threat they've been made out to be?
And in 2004 people are still questioning The Theory of Natural Selction and seriously want
