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US troops kidnapped Iraqi general Abed Mowhoush's children. When he showed up, trying to get his children back, the troops beat him until bruises and welts covered his body, stuffed him into a sleeping bag bound with a cord, sat on his chest, and covered his mouth. He died from suffocation.
The Army convicted an interrogator of negligent homocide. The offense for torturing a general who had every right to POW status to death? $6,000 and 60 days confined to home, office, and church. No jail time. Not even a dishonorable discharge.
And this jerk asked for another sleeping bag the day after he killed the general, hoping to use this technique on others.
