UK soldiers kicked Iraqi prisoner to death

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UK soldiers kicked Iraqi prisoner to death: report Eight young Iraqis arrested in the southern Iraqi town of Basra last year were assaulted by British soldiers, and one of them died of his injuries, a British newspaper said in its Sunday edition. Baha Mousa's body was returned to his family covered in bruises and with his nose broken, after he and seven other men were arrested by British forces in September 2003 and held in military custody for three days, The Independent on Sunday said. The newspaper said in its report by veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk that it had seen military and medical records of the case showing that the father of two suffered his injuries in a severe beating. British military authorities offered Mousa's family $8,000 in compensation, providing they were not held responsible for his death, but his relatives planned to take Britain's Ministry of Defence to court, the newspaper said. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman declined to give details about the case. "There is an ongoing military police investigation into a death that we had in custody," she said. wat gingen ze daar ook alweer doen? sadam vervangen? doen ze wel heel erg letterlijk. chapeau!

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voor de moderator hier staat het. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1019935.htm

[Norah]

Ja dat hebben ze inderdaad iets te letterlijk genomen, en dan ook nog geld aan de nabestaanden geven zodat zij niet de verantwoording hoeven te dragen voor zijn dood. Goed dat ze het niet hebben aangenomen. De dader moet gewoon voor de rechter verschijnen.

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US troops kill woman, child in Iraq: report Iraqi police say US troops have opened fire on a car in the city of Tikrit killing four civilians, including a woman and a child. The US military denies its soldiers were involved in the shooting. The chief of police in Tikrit says a sedan was sprayed by bullets fired by a US convoy. One of the survivors, Ibrahim al-Amiri, says he was trying to overtake one of the jeeps in the convoy when the soldiers started shooting. He says his wife, young son, and two parents were killed. The head of the battalion in charge of the area says he was aware of the shooting, but US Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell says his men were not involved. Meanwhile, two US soldiers have been killed and three wounded in a home-made bomb attack south of Baghdad.

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