USA breaking international law, stealing money?

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Siwy

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According to this report from Amnesty International, USA may be breaking the international humanitarian law. "The conditions of detention Iraqis are held under at the Camp Cropper Center at Baghdad International Airport - now a US base - and at Abu Ghraib Prison may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, banned by international law,"

Additionally, there are reports of looting by UK and US soldiers; "Amnesty International is also concerned about a number of allegations of stealing of money from houses which were being searched by UK or US soldiers."
 
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Moonbeam

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Bush campaigned against nation building. He lost the election, but maybe next time we can elect him and he'll get us out of this mess.
 
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Bush campaigned against nation building. He lost the election, but maybe next time we can elect him and he'll get us out of this mess.
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Alistar7

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Originally posted by: Czar
heard this story about the looting on the BBC few days ago
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the BBC publishing anti-US articles, no way
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read the main post though, the US MAY BE STEALING, MAY AMOUNT TOO, ALLEGATIONS OF, ETC... sound slike concrete evidence, no wonder the BBC rushed to print...
 
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Orsorum

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: Czar
heard this story about the looting on the BBC few days ago
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the BBC publishing anti-US articles, no way
rolleye.gif


read the main post though, the US MAY BE STEALING, MAY AMOUNT TOO, ALLEGATIONS OF, ETC... sound slike concrete evidence, no wonder the BBC rushed to print...
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The BBC is still by far the most impartial news source around. Publishes a wide variety of stories from a variety of viewpoints.
 
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Czar

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: Czar
heard this story about the looting on the BBC few days ago
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the BBC publishing anti-US articles, no way
rolleye.gif


read the main post though, the US MAY BE STEALING, MAY AMOUNT TOO, ALLEGATIONS OF, ETC... sound slike concrete evidence, no wonder the BBC rushed to print...
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it was a report on interviews taken with people who have gone through this, soldiers looking for resistance people, go in, find nothing, steal and break valuables and then leave.

I'm not saying its true, only that there is more than one source to this story
 
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Alistar7

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anything put out by the BBC is going to be taken with a grain of salt, public broadcasting turned political machine.......

I have no doubt somne soldiers are taking things, some are raping women, some are getting drunk on duty, etc....
 
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Alistar7

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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: Czar
heard this story about the looting on the BBC few days ago
Click to expand...

the BBC publishing anti-US articles, no way
rolleye.gif


read the main post though, the US MAY BE STEALING, MAY AMOUNT TOO, ALLEGATIONS OF, ETC... sound slike concrete evidence, no wonder the BBC rushed to print...
Click to expand...

rolleye.gif
The BBC is still by far the most impartial news source around. Publishes a wide variety of stories from a variety of viewpoints.
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you really think that? Funny, the people in the UK don't.....
 
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Czar

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: Czar
heard this story about the looting on the BBC few days ago
Click to expand...

the BBC publishing anti-US articles, no way
rolleye.gif


read the main post though, the US MAY BE STEALING, MAY AMOUNT TOO, ALLEGATIONS OF, ETC... sound slike concrete evidence, no wonder the BBC rushed to print...
Click to expand...

rolleye.gif
The BBC is still by far the most impartial news source around. Publishes a wide variety of stories from a variety of viewpoints.
Click to expand...

you really think that? Funny, the people in the UK don't.....
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remember your last bbc rant? read it

 
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Siwy

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
anything put out by the BBC is going to be taken with a grain of salt, public broadcasting turned political machine.......

I have no doubt somne soldiers are taking things, some are raping women, some are getting drunk on duty, etc....
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Wait a minute...you have no doubt that "somne soldiers are taking things, some are raping women, some are getting drunk on duty, etc.... " but when BBC is reporting the exact thing that you have no doubt about, we should take it with a grain of salt?

Aren't you contradicting yourself?
 
Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Siwy
According to this report from Amnesty International, USA may be breaking the international humanitarian law. "The conditions of detention Iraqis are held under at the Camp Cropper Center at Baghdad International Airport - now a US base - and at Abu Ghraib Prison may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, banned by international law,"

Additionally, there are reports of looting by UK and US soldiers; "Amnesty International is also concerned about a number of allegations of stealing of money from houses which were being searched by UK or US soldiers."
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Looters will be looters. I kind of vaguely remember a small bruhaha about Iraqi's looting from their own museum and an article on the bbc.co.uk website that greatly exagerated that number for the sole purpose of US bashing. I also remember them seizing a British reporters bag at Heathrow and he had a treasure trove of loot that he was trying to smuggle back.

Originally posted by: Orsorum

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The BBC is still by far the most impartial news source around. Publishes a wide variety of stories from a variety of viewpoints.
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I find it amazing that you can say that with a straight face. I guess the next thing I hear from you will be the LAPD really loves black people.
 
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Czar

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Nitemare, you do know that the numbers of the items stolen have been going up and down for the last months?
 
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Czar

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: Czar
Nitemare, you do know that the numbers of the items stolen have been going up and down for the last months?
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clarify please
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http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=52&threadid=1076903&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
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How much was the report initially?
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dont remember, first was a few thousand then it was a few dozens then it was few thousand again

 
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