How not to invade and destroy a country and it's people, already creating hatreds from that, and then claim the Counter Insurgency of "Winning Hearts and Minds"
Soldiers viewed all Iraqis as 'scum', Baha Mousa inquiry hears
27 April 2010 Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount 'arse-covering exercise' after Baha Mousa's death
An officer of the regiment detaining Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, when he was beaten to death said his soldiers held the view that "all Iraqis were scum", it was disclosed today.
One officer tried to mount an "arse covering" exercise after Mousa's death, while others expressed ignorance of basic rules covering the treatment of prisoners, the public inquiry into the incident heard.
A military intelligence officer, identified only as SO [staff officer] 17, told the inquiry she was "amazed" at questions senior officers asked her about how prisoners should be treated.
Hooding, stress positions, noise-producing equipment and sleep deprivation were prohibited in a Joint Intelligence Committee document in 1972, the inquiry heard. They were banned by Edward Heath, then prime minister, after their use in Northern Ireland. -->-->-->
Which in turn creates even more hatreds, thus enemies, who not only take up arms or anything they can use, but gain the support of their fellow country persons, thus causing the deaths and maimings of those who are occupying as well as more citizens, the occupied!
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