This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story of an Iraqi man who died hanging by his cuffed wrists from a door frame, gagged, and beaten to death by his US interrogators. As the Final Autopsy Report noted:
The remains are received clad in a white shirt, white pajama type pants, and white
undershorts. Feces covers the clothing from the waist down....There is gauze dressing on the left wrist. No other evidence of medical intervention is noted.... The right chest wall has fractures of ribs three through seven anteriorly and ribs six through twelve posteriorly. The left chest wall has fractures of ribs two through nine anteriorly and ribs seven through twelve posteriorly. There are fractures of the lateral aspect of ribs nine and ten on the left side. There is a horizontal fracture through the mid-portion of the body of the sternum."
Yes, our tax dollars are paying for this. Hung up by the wrists and beaten so badly that he not only had over 25 separate rib fractures, many slicing into his lungs, he also had a fractured sternum. The thick, solid bone protecting your heart.
It gets uglier over the fold. It's time to face reality.
UPDATE: Wow, top of the rec list. You care. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I have at least two more weeks of similar diaries, I want to make them happen, to get the facts, the horrible knowledge, out to the public in the leadup to Conyers hearings. Again, thank you all for the support. Together, we might be able to have an effect.
UPDATE 2: Some context, as much as I can glean:
The autopsy seems to have been performed as part of an Army CID investigation. I was done under the auspices of (from the header of the autopsy report):
ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE QF PATHOLOGY
Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner
1413 Research Blvd., Bldg. 102
Rockville, MD 20850
1-800-944-7912
The incident in question occurred in Al asad, Iraq on Jan. 9, 2004. The victim was a member of the Iraqi Army-the rank has been redacted. The autopsy was performed at BIAP Mortuary in Baghdad. After the autopsy,
ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES
Documentary photographs are taken by OAFME Photographer PH3 [redacted] USN
Specimens retained for toxicologic testing and/or DNA identification are: vitreous fluid, cavity blood, spleen, liver.urine, brain, bile, lung, kidney; and psoas muscle
The dissected organs are forwarded with body
Clothing and personal effects are released to the Army CID agents present at the autopsy
So it seems that it was an incident that was investigated as a crime. With more digging we might be able to find out more details, but right now I'm not sure who, what, or why. And this treatment is not condoned, as it resulted in death. As we know, it's considered torture only if major organ failure or death occurs.
Feudalism worked through a Lord offering "protection" to a fief, in return for tributary extraction of the resources from the fiefdom. Nominal fractions were spent by the Lord as expressions of "largess". These went a long way to portraying the Lord as magnanimous - despite the fact that this wealth was extracted from the fiefdoms themselves!
The loyalty of the villians, and the benediction of the church were secured through these poses of generosity.
You know, the more I read this hatred and contempt from our Euro-zone âoeallies,â the more Iâ(TM)m inclined to realize that George Washington had it absolutely right regarding âoeforeign entanglements.â OK, youâ(TM)ve convinced me... Quit posting to Slashdot with MS Word as your editor!
Some are easier. But that's an obfuscation. We aren't debating what can be done to secure a platform after shipping in its default configuration.
Mom and pop (and sis and aunt and brother-in-law) are not going to harden much but their arteries.;-)
So, if the subset of security conscious folk were taken out of a botnet equation, that botnet would still be 99.999999% of the potential size, by host count.
Give 'm cheap, "free speech". Then they'll believe they have real liberty, and low motivation to actually pursue a government by, for and of the people.
Funny, Booz Allen might like to take a leaf from the Northrop-Grumman playbook and charge the Chinese for this information!
Let's get this straight.
Northrop-Grumman or General Dynamics or any D.o'D. approved private contractor can post anything they like about future combat systems on their websites, and even sell secret weapons systems to Saudis or the UAE or anyone else who can buy, but for anyone else to do it is an infringement of national security.
Also, the private contractors can preferentially hire non-nationals, who work diligently and are key to the development of these systems, instead of American citizens who might be disturbed at the nature of what the private contractors are doing in the name of national security, but that's the free market.
So, if I remember correctly, didn't something happen in Germany in the 1930s that caused its brightest physiscists to flee? And didn't the same imperial hubris that caused Germany to persecute the people who might have made it an economic power after WWI really cause it to enter- and lose- WWII?
I have a legitimate right to send SMTP from my machine - and I do so. I also run an SMTP server at home - have since 1993, when I got off of uucp.
I have never been an open relay, and access is passwd. I already have assholes at AT&T blacklisting me for no reason - and suffering their ridiculous petition process to get off their RBL.
This is the Internet. A collection of networks. ISPs are not cops, nor should they be. When you mandate this on common carriers, they become something else - and any slim protections we still have remaining will be long gone.
Slashdot Mirror
I want it to report simultaneously to the DHS and the NSA, when I change my vest and underpants.
Mad Cow Disease for Robots?
This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story of an Iraqi man who died hanging by his cuffed wrists from a door frame, gagged, and beaten to death by his US interrogators. As the Final Autopsy Report noted:
Yes, our tax dollars are paying for this. Hung up by the wrists and beaten so badly that he not only had over 25 separate rib fractures, many slicing into his lungs, he also had a fractured sternum. The thick, solid bone protecting your heart.
It gets uglier over the fold. It's time to face reality.
UPDATE: Wow, top of the rec list. You care. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I have at least two more weeks of similar diaries, I want to make them happen, to get the facts, the horrible knowledge, out to the public in the leadup to Conyers hearings. Again, thank you all for the support. Together, we might be able to have an effect.
UPDATE 2: Some context, as much as I can glean:
UPDATE 3--This appears to the case of Abdul Jaleel.
From the Final Autopsy Report:
Yeah. Some private carrier finally analysed this - months later!
Oh! Look! It was Iraq and North Korea! Look! Look, Jane! See North Korea run!
The intels who did this don't even bother with subtlety anymore.
How not so?
Operates independently of law, and unilaterally re-writes laws as they are signed.
The US Congress is like Julius Caesar's Senate - soon to be like Tiberius and Caligula's.
It's a war against Terra.
People get tricked into dying all the time. "Hero" is not the description for such a person.
Feudalism worked through a Lord offering "protection" to a fief, in return for tributary extraction of the resources from the fiefdom. Nominal fractions were spent by the Lord as expressions of "largess". These went a long way to portraying the Lord as magnanimous - despite the fact that this wealth was extracted from the fiefdoms themselves!
The loyalty of the villians, and the benediction of the church were secured through these poses of generosity.
Billions of dollars to buy their feudal allegiance - with goodwill as the PR story to sell Empire back home.
Show me the law that says I don't.
Technological solution, meet sociological problem.
Now, I believe I ordered the dancing pigs!
You can harden anything.
;-)
Some are easier. But that's an obfuscation. We aren't debating what can be done to secure a platform after shipping in its default configuration.
Mom and pop (and sis and aunt and brother-in-law) are not going to harden much but their arteries.
So, if the subset of security conscious folk were taken out of a botnet equation, that botnet would still be 99.999999% of the potential size, by host count.
Give 'm cheap, "free speech". Then they'll believe they have real liberty, and low motivation to actually pursue a government by, for and of the people.
"Probably. Hang around a US military recruiting station, and I bet you can meet a few people who have that vision."
The FoxNews demographic. Earnest, well-intentioned, poorly-informed, misguided and wrong.
"Is there anyone dumb enough to still believe the romantic portrayal of the young valiant American heros defending liberty and freedom"
Yes. Products of the American "education" system.
Whoops! The cat's eaten it...
Northrop-Grumman or General Dynamics or any D.o'D. approved private contractor can post anything they like about future combat systems on their websites, and even sell secret weapons systems to Saudis or the UAE or anyone else who can buy, but for anyone else to do it is an infringement of national security.
Also, the private contractors can preferentially hire non-nationals, who work diligently and are key to the development of these systems, instead of American citizens who might be disturbed at the nature of what the private contractors are doing in the name of national security, but that's the free market.
So, if I remember correctly, didn't something happen in Germany in the 1930s that caused its brightest physiscists to flee? And didn't the same imperial hubris that caused Germany to persecute the people who might have made it an economic power after WWI really cause it to enter- and lose- WWII?
Just askin'. I just wondered what the Party line was these days. http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/2008/04/pearl-clutching-by-master-race.html
The keyboards in the first two years of white iBooks DO start to smell like BO. Something in the plastics and it is STRONG!
http://www.google.com/search?q=iBook+BO+smell&rls=com.microsoft:*&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
A Stinky Old iBook that Smells Like Sweat
I got rid of mine!
Smallest object?
Bush's brain, or Cheney's heart?
Both are not of terrestrial, human origin.
Which is why they bought FaST.
This isn't about search - it's barely about advertising.
Bull.
I have a legitimate right to send SMTP from my machine - and I do so. I also run an SMTP server at home - have since 1993, when I got off of uucp.
I have never been an open relay, and access is passwd. I already have assholes at AT&T blacklisting me for no reason - and suffering their ridiculous petition process to get off their RBL.
This is the Internet. A collection of networks. ISPs are not cops, nor should they be. When you mandate this on common carriers, they become something else - and any slim protections we still have remaining will be long gone.
Wow. Strong state advocacy from the Stainless Steel Rat!
Firewalls don't help, if you navigate to a BadWare URL, and request an exploit on port 80!
"i am too!"
That's "I am two!"