Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A new video shows the disproportionate use of force the U.S. Army in Iraq

Barcelona (Editorial) .- A new video released by PressTV page shows images of U.S. soldiers putting a disproportionate use of force against Iraqi prisoners. Apparently, the events date back to 2005, prisoners in the center of Iraq's Camp Bucca, near Basra. Iraqi detainees were protesting the desecration of U.S.

troops from the Koran, has denounced the Association for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU in its acronym in English). In the recording can be seen as the soldiers allegedly fired at the prisoners and may even throw what looks like a grenade. Four prisoners were killed by gunfire and five others were wounded during the riot.

The soldiers, as related by the web, tried to cover the bloodshed, arguing that the prisoners were revealed when it intervened in the barracks to find contraband. The U.S. military detained 20,000 people in 2008, 17,000 of which are Found in Camp Bucca, and about 3,000 at Camp Cropper, near Baghdad.

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