From: "Phil Payne" 

"Jim Adams"  wrote in message
news:447e10eb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I did say that there have been 'major problems'  with military justice
>
> Military justice is to justice as Military Music is to music.

Indeed.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/04/2003311613

"A US military probe has exonerated US troops in the deaths of Iraqi
civilians in the town of Ishaqi in March, finding US forces followed
standard procedures and committed no misconduct, defense officials said on
Friday."

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/06/1826759.php

"The cameraman who shot the video arrived on the scene before the
house had collapsed. The footage shows bullet holes everywhere, including
on the walls inside the house. The bodies of the dead clearly indicate that
they were killed by bullet wounds. In the video, the faces of the dead have
been blurred to obscure their horrific injuries."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article624654.ece

"The Iraqi government has reacted furiously to a ruling that cleared
American forces of executing a family of civilians north of Baghdad earlier
this year, and pledged to continue its own inquiries into allegations of US
war crimes.

An American military investigation this weekend cleared US troops of
rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people - including five children
and four women - in a house in the village of Ishaqi, before blowing up the
building.

But Iraq rejected the American exoneration of its own forces yesterday.
Anger over the incident has raised tensions even further between the US
government and the Iraqi administration it backs. Relations deteriorated
throughout the week after a series of revelations and claims of criminal
behaviour by US forces.

[...]

"We have [heard] from more than one source that the Ishaqi killings
were carried out under questionable circumstances. More than one child was
killed. This report was not fair for the Iraqi people and the children who
were killed," said an aide to Nuri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister,
yesterday.

The US military had issued a statement about Ishaqi saying allegations that
US troops "executed a family ... and then hid the alleged crimes by
directing an air strike, are absolutely false".

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