{"id":1958,"date":"2004-04-30T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2004-04-30T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T00:56:00","slug":"heavy-squaddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/30\/20\/56\/heavy-squaddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Squaddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/story.jsp?story=517063\">Photographs showing British soldiers beating and urinating on an Iraqi prisoner were published &#8230; [they are] beating the man with their rifle butts. He was reportedly arrested for theft. Their victim is said to have been left bleeding and vomiting, with a broken jaw and smashed teeth, after an eight-hour ordeal. During it, he was apparently threatened with summary execution &#8230; serving soldiers [said] the unnamed captive, against whom no charges were brought, was dumped from the back of a moving vehicle at the end of his torture. It is not known whether he survived.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=5005907&#038;pageNumber=1\">The human rights charity Amnesty International said it had warned U.S. and British authorities in Iraq that captives were being abused. &#8220;We have talked to ex-prisoners, who say when they were taken into custody they were hooded and beaten, sometimes numerous times and subjected on some occasions to psychological torture and acts of sexual humiliation &#8230; [the provisional authority] simply have not acted on these reports. There is on the face of it a pattern.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/world\/8561143.htm\">The six U.S. soldiers facing courts-martial in connection with mistreatment of detainees at an Iraqi prison did not receive in-depth training on the Geneva Conventions &#8230; Those soldiers have been reassigned to other duties in Iraq &#8230; No courts-martial proceedings against them have taken place.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_04_25_WeekArchive.php#'108326815580236990'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs showing British soldiers beating and urinating on an Iraqi prisoner were published &#8230; [they are] beating the man with their rifle butts. He was reportedly arrested for theft. Their victim is said to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}