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2005-10-16 Iraq

Captured SAS men 'spying on drill torturer'

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Posted by lotp 2005-10-16 08:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If this is true the Brits should mind their own business and worry about things that compromise their and Iraq's security.

Posted by BillH 2005-10-16 09:00|| 2005-10-16 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Exactly, leave it to the professionals.

Posted by Oliver 2005-10-16 09:48|| 2005-10-16 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee,they might have been doing something really, really bad... like leading them around on dog leashes, naked, and putting panties on their heads.
Has anyone told Seymour Hersh and the NY Times about this?

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-10-16 10:19|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-10-16 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Hersch wouldn't touch this story - it might impede the war effort.

Posted by anon again 2005-10-16 10:39|| 2005-10-16 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you, Sgt. Mom. The unendurable and ghastly travesties of Abu Ghraib immediately sprang to mind. I remain confident that the moral relativists will somehow manage to shrug off this "bit" of vile nastiness as they continue to shriek about the horrors of war.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-16 10:56|| 2005-10-16 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I really hope this isn't true - the thought of the SAS being used to spy on some iffy Iraqi copper leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-10-16 12:10|| 2005-10-16 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Tough call Tony. It's not like Britain or the US has no responsibility for what the Iraqis are doing in their zones of control. If it is going on, this kind of torture is over the line and I don't know that we want to be responsible for setting up a regime that practices it, at least before we've left.

Posted by Flavimp Omiter8761 2005-10-16 12:16|| 2005-10-16 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The torture isn't about a bent copper. Rather, the torture is a tool with which to set up a Shia-ruled tribal enclave within conquered Iraq, under the unwitting protection of the oblivious, but well-intentioned, British Army. Ths SAS are the proper tool to fix that kind of problem. I most sincerely hope the High Command is not serious about discontinuing this effort, as that would mean the people of Basra would have been freed from Saddam Hussein's tyrannt only to be turned over to the tender mercies of Arab tribal/religious infighting -- which is certainly not what America spent troops and treasure to achieve.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-16 13:50|| 2005-10-16 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 My take too, tw.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-16 13:52|| 2005-10-16 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 You're reading more into this than I see, but it is certainly not impossible, and if it is the case, and the Brits would seem to have implemented their colonial strategy of co-opting the most powerful tribe.

It may be that leaving them in charge of Basra was a mistake. And it's hard to imagine where else they could have been helpful, except possibly Kurdistan. Perhaps the Brits should have gone in there through Turkey.

Posted by Greans Ominerong3730 2005-10-16 13:59|| 2005-10-16 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 I hope he wasn't using a masonry bit. That is definitely inhumane.

Posted by Grunter 2005-10-16 21:19|| 2005-10-16 21:19|| Front Page Top

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