Video shows US Soldiers in Ramadi madness abuse. they released a DVD of it.

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Video shows US soldiers in ‘Ramadi Madness’ abuse

WASHINGTON: US Army soldiers in Iraq filmed themselves kicking a gravely wounded prisoner in the face and making the arm of a corpse appear to wave, then titled the effort “Ramadi Madness” after the city where it was made.

Florida National Guard soldiers filmed the video made public on Monday. They edited and compiled it into a DVD on January 2004, with various sections bearing the titles “Those Crafty Little Bastards” and “Another Day, Another Mission, Another Scumbag.”

The video’s existence was revealed in Army documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under court order through the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon did not release the video, saying it believed the video had been destroyed. However, a Florida newspaper ‘The Palm Beach Post’ found it and posted some parts of it on their Web site on Monday.

The American Civil Liberties Unions has obtained thousands of documents from the Pentagon and said that they show a pattern of detainee abuses by military forces in Iraq. Soldiers depicted in the new video would not face criminal charges, said the Pentagon. One section of the video showed a bound and wounded prisoner sprawled on the ground, and showed his bullet entry and exit wounds. At one point, a US soldier kicked the prisoner in the face. Army documents quoted a soldier at the scene saying he “thought the dude eventually died. We weren’t in any hurry to call the medics.” In another part of the video, a soldier grabbed the arm of a truck driver who had just been shot dead and made the corpse wave to the camera. The events that preceded the incident were not shown on the video. The newspaper reported that US troops had stopped the truck and ordered the driver to step out but he ran back into the vehicle and sped away only to be shot dead by an American soldier.

Documents released by the Pentagon showed that Army criminal investigators looked into the matter and decided no criminal charges were warranted against the soldiers. Documents showed that the Army deemed the actions shown on the video “inappropriate” rather than criminal. “According to the investigations, it didn’t rise to the level of criminal abuse,” said Lt Col Jeremy Martin, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon. “Clearly, the soldiers probably exercised poor judgment and I’m sure that they were admonished by their command for their actions.”

Meanwhile, another set of documents said that an army sergeant was given a psychiatric examination and sent out of Iraq after he reported that members of his counter-intelligence team in Samarra were abusing prisoners. agencies