NSFW! - British Troops Beating Young Iraqis On Camera

I was quite surprised not to find this video on the sift.

It shows
"New footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah city in 2003,"
The video seems legit. According to The Independents website the soldiers have avoided prosecution.
[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2125421.ece]
Oh btw -
The guy behind the camera is completely insane.


Herald Tribune
[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/12/news/abuse.php]
Soldier arrested - Guardian Unlimited
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1709262,00.html]
Washington Post
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021200166.html]
Spiegel Online
[http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,400593,00.html]

colinrsays...

Well it is often said that everything the Americans do we end up doing later (and often in an even more half-assed way!)

Beyond the horrible things they are taking pleasure in doing the thing that goes through my mind whenever I see a video like this or the Abu Ghraib photos is that some complete moron thought it would be a good idea to take a picture or a video. Why - as some sort of memento?(!) If you are that stupid you deserve to get caught (whether you get punished is of course a completely different matter - cynical? Me? lol). The other thing that these videos or pictures makes me think about is how much is goes on that didn't get filmed because the perpetrators had more sense? Thinking of it that way we should perhaps let them all take their video cameras and mobile phones with them!

Kruposays...

Um, DuoJet, do you want a guy orgasmically screaming with glee in response to a beating? In the same fashion, do you want a 4 year old watching this?

*worldaffairs and, sadly, *military. *British psycho military cameraman edition.

jonnysays...

They removed the mature button, so it's definitely *notdead.

For future reference, you can always get around that by making a playlist of the one vid, and sifting playlist instead.

WKBsays...

The unnecessary use of violence sick enough, but that cameraman is just a complete psychopath. I think he was jacking it while he watched those kids getting kicked around.

rottenseedsays...

>> ^netean:

look at us. we can be just like the american's in EVERY way... winning the hearts and minds of regular Iraqis.
STOP THE WAR


You're an idiot...who were imperialist pricks first, huh? Yea that's right...

it's us Americans that learned from the best...

jcf79says...

If the soldiers are just giving these young youths some much needed discipline as I'm sure some will think, then why not unblur those faces? Nothing to be ashamed of here, right?

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