"I don't recall being made aware"

[Ivo Skoric]

"I don't recall being made aware" - that's the Bush's White House ass-
covering general response to the Abu Ghraib Konzentrazionlager. I see 
Milosevic repeating that one very often from now on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/politics/19ABUS.html?th

The US military insisted in restricting ICRC access to Abu Ghraib, so 
it doesn't interfere with interrogations - which were done under 
torture. The same frustration ICRC experienced trying to visit 
Manjaca, Omarska, and Keraterm in Republika Srpska some years ago.

So, what's the difference between Milosevic's Serbia and Bush's US? 
Is this how freedom is spread around the world? By stripping people 
of their clothes and dignity?

The gallery of 7 people in the pictures shows faces that we may see 
every day. Who would see a sadistic torturer behind those smiles? Yet 
the abuses depicted are the same we heard about from Bosnia to 
Rwanda. And those most involved follow the known pattern - of 7 
people, 2 ringleaders are males in their mid-to-late thirties, which 
is precisely the age/gender group of majority of abuse perpetrators 
in Yugoslav wars.... The worst part is that the magnificent 7 will 
not stand the trial for crimes against humanity, but rather just get 
a slap on the wrist in the closed trial for misbehaving. Others, whom 
we did ot see in the pictures, they'll probably just walk. 
Ultimately, this may cost the US losing the battle for Iraq in the 
long, very bloody, long run. Wasn't the president of the US managed 
Iraqi Council just killed by a suicide bomber?

ivo