Baha Mousa
Private Stuart Mackenzie was in Iraq in 2003 ( Diary of a squaddie: Sunburn, sore feet and three more Ali Babas ... ) He was attached to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment which ran the detention centre in which Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa was held before dying from the 93 injuries he sustained.
Mackenzie kept a diary and extracts were produced at the court martial of the seven soldiers who were acquitted of abusing prisoners.
Mackenzie wrote:
Leg and a winged (threw) Ali Baba into Shat al Arab (canal) for stealing wood.
Piss funny....
On 4 hour patrol - ... found anti-aircraft gun ... Horse bit me.
Found 3 Ali Babas at WTP7.
Beat them up with sticks and filmed it - good day so far...
House raid, for hours, nothing found.
Caught 3 Ali Babas - beat fuck out of them in back of Saxon.
One had a punctured lung + broken ribs + fingers.
One had a dislocated shoulder + broken fingers...
The British military have a growing reputation for behaving like Nazis.
According to some historians, Britain bears “significant responsibility” since 1945 for the direct or indirect deaths of 8.6 million to 13.5 million people throughout the world from military interventions and at the hands of regimes strongly supported by Britain.
(Unpeople, Dirty Wars and a Web of Deceit – Britain’s Foreign ...)
Harry Farr
During World War I, Britain executed 306 of its own soldiers, some as young as 14 years of age. (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/nov19 ... -n16.shtml)
From an article by Harvey Thompson at WSWS 16 November 1999:
A typical case is that of Harry Farr, who joined the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and fought in the trenches.
His position was repeatedly shelled, and in May 1915 he collapsed with strong convulsions.
In hospital, his wife Gertrude—who was denied a widow's pension after the war—recalled, “he shook all the time.
He couldn't stand the noise of the guns.
We got a letter from him, but it was in a stranger's handwriting.
He could write perfectly well, but couldn't hold the pen because his hand was shaking.”
It is now thought that Farr was possibly suffering from hypacusis, which occurs when the eardrums are so damaged that the auditory nerve becomes exposed, making loud noises physically unbearable.
Despite this, Farr was sent back to the front and fought at the Somme.
After several months of fighting, he requested to see a medical orderly but was refused.
In Farr's Court Martial papers, the Sergeant Major is quoted as saying “If you don't go up to the f*****g front, I'm going to f*****g blow your brains out” to which Farr simply replied “I just can't go on.”
The Court Martial was over in 20 minutes.
Harry Farr had to defend himself.
General Haig signed his death warrant and he was shot at dawn on October 16, 1916.
Prior to World War II, elements of the British military were fans of Hitler.
According to Admiral Sir Barry Domville, a pre-war head of UK Naval Intelligence, Hitler was "absolutely terrific."
Wing Commander Frederick Winterbottom, a pre-war head of MI6's air section, reportedly hoped Britain and Germany would unite against Stalin's Russia. (Hackitectura Advance - [History of M15)
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2011/03/kids-who-dont-know-their-own-names-8.html