22.May.2006 at 8:27 am | hso
Dog Escapes Conviction, Handler Found Guilty
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A U.S. Military Army dog handler was convicted of tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Smith, 24 was accused of using his Belgian shepherd dog to threaten prisoners in January 2004 at the Baghdad jail which earned worldwide notoriety because of previous abuse cases involving US soldiers.
He was found guilty of two counts of maltreatment involving three detainees, one count of conspiring to make detainees soil themselves, one of dereliction of duty, one of assault and one of committing an indecent act.
The dog involved in this incriminating act got away by simply wagging its tail, the judge said “well,.. the dog was simply following orders from its superiorâ€?, when Smith used the same reasoning (orders from superior), he was reminded by the judge that he was hardly canine, and told Smith be incarcerated in a pound like a dog.Â
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1. Adrian MacNair | May 23, 2006 #
How does it go again? “Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!” So the dogs always get off the hook so to speak….