another scientist for the bush body count

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=610618


U.S. to Probe Iraq Scientist's Death


The U.S. Army says it has reopened an investigation into the suspected bludgeoning death of a key Iraqi scientist in American custody, a chemist who allegedly experimented with poisons on prisoners in the days of Saddam Hussein.

Mohammad Munim al-Izmerly, 65, is the only known weapons scientist among at least 96 detainees who have died in U.S. custody in Iraq. Questions have surrounded the death ever since his body was dropped off at a Baghdad hospital in February 2004, two weeks after he died.

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When al-Izmerly's body was delivered to Al-Kharkh Hospital, the Americans enclosed a death certificate saying he died of "brainstem compression," without saying what caused it, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported after viewing the document last year. A subsequent Iraqi autopsy determined he was killed by a blunt trauma injury, a blow to the head, Iraqi doctors told Baghdad reporters.
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murder is a good way to shut up journalists and scientists if you are the bushgang. the bushgang can break any law they want - whose to stop them?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/no_blood_on_our_hands.php
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In the spirit of Easter, might we at least hope for a resurrection of truth from President George W. Bush and those who work for him? Instead, what we hear is something like: “Renditions occur, it is true, and indeed to countries that torture. But we make sure to ask them if they intend to torture this particular person and they say, ‘No, of course not.’ And we, of course, believe them." We are asked to accept this type of statement as truth. Donald Rumsfeld certifies procedures which are plain and simple torture (not abuse), yet he meant them to be used only in Guantánamo— not in Iraq, for heaven’s sake. He is not responsible for what happened there. It’s those bad apples. All agree they must be punished, and they are. No blood on Rumsfeld’s hands.

Apparently, while he was White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales decided nothing, influenced nothing. He just passed on memos from the Justice Department to the president. No blood on his hands. And the president himself? He states to the world that the U.S. position on torture is never : to anyone, anywhere, any time for any reason. Yet he had signed the rendition order long before he made that statement on June 26, 2003. No blood on his hands.

If the Bush administration won’t stop torturing—and apparently they won’t—will they not, at least, stand up and tell the truth? The de facto policy of the Bush administration is to torture. Own up to it. Tell the truth. That indeed would be an Easter miracle.

to Iraq during those years when Saddam was a CIA point man...