The following are a partial list of items gathered by the ACLU under US freedom of information legislation from US military documents

• an Army captain took an Iraqi welder into the desert, told him to dig his own grave, verbally threatened to kill him and had other soldiers stage a shooting of the man.
• A Master Sergeant was found guilty of knocking an Iraqi detainee to the ground, repeatedly kicking him in the groin, abdomen and head, and encouraging her subordinates to do the same.
• A Staff Sergeant was found guilty of holding a detainee’s legs apart while other soldiers kicked him in the groin, abdomen and head.
• men were driven to a bridge, where a platoon leader instructed three soldiers to push the detainees into the river. One of the Iraqi men could not swim and drowned. The other survived and reported the incident to different U.S. soldiers. The body was recovered by the family 12 days later and buried.
• a man died from an embolism that the medical examiner “attributed to blows that he received combined with immobility due to restraint.”
• a man died from aggravation or a coronary artery condition “brought on by complications that arose from blows that he received from the stress from being restrained in a standing position.”

1. some people don’t like the ACLU but that’s not important, the information comes from US military documentation so ignore the ACLU aspect of the post, it is not relevant;
2. I posted about these items as an intro to the question I am asking below so there’s now no need to ask why I am posting about this;
3. I’m posting about it now because the link was just forwarded to me so there’s no need to ask why I’m posting about it now