Inquiry Into Detainee Death Early in Iraq War Reveals Secret Prison Camp
by John Glaser,
February 07, 2012
In April 2003, days after the fall of Baghdad, British troops in a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters were on a mission to transport Iraqi detainees to a prison camp under the cover of darkness. Before the end of the night, one detainee had died on board one of the helicopters, allegedly beaten to death by RAF personnel. As the incident became shrouded in secrecy by the government, additional deaths also came to the fore. Only now are the holes in the story being filled in, with one of the revelations being a secret Iraq detention camp.
Read the whole report at the Guardian.
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Mojo
February 7th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
So.., what happened to the inquiry about Tony Blair, and George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Rumsfeled, Paul Wolfowitz, and other 22 gang members.
R.Parker
February 8th, 2012 at 1:13 am
Those "heroes' are just itching to do this to us in a FEMA camp somewhere.
Yonatan
February 8th, 2012 at 2:21 am
Not to mention the whole topic of regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran – where is the troops' (with a few notable exceptions) 'moral courage'? Just following orders, perhaps?
Johnny_Warbucks
February 8th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
A secret prison in Iraq? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Next thing you know, they'll be revealing that there's a secret prison in Guantanamo, Cuba where people are tortured on a regular basis.