Re: Detained Iraqi Allegeedly Beaten to Death
Date: April 14, 2004
"Iraqi
'beaten to death' by US troops
AN Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons because
he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from
his car, police said today.
The motorist was stopped late yesterday by US troops conducting search operations
on a street in the centre of the central city of Kut, Lieutenant Mohamad Abdel
Abbas said.
After the man refused to remove Sadr's picture from his car, the soldiers forced
him out of the vehicle and started beating him with truncheons, he said.
US troops also detained from the same area five men wearing black pants and
shirts, the usual attire of Sadr's Mehdi Army militiamen and followers.
Qassem Hassan, the director of Kut general hospital, identified the man as Salem
Hassan, a resident of a Kut suburb.
He said the man had died of wounds sustained in the beating.
A spokesman for the US-led coalition could not confirm the incident.
©Agence France-Presse"
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