Military 'Loses' Key Evidence in Iraqi Prisoner Death

[Bluebear]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - The military has lost key evidence in its investigation into the death of an Iraqi man beaten by Marine prison guards, throwing into doubt the status of a court-martial of one of the guards.

The missing evidence includes bones taken from the throat and chest of Nagem Hatab, attorneys said Thursday at a hearing for Maj. Clarke Paulus.

Hatab, 52, died last year at a makeshift camp in Iraq that was run by Marines. He had been rumored to be an official of Saddam Hussein's Baath party and part of the ambush of a U.S. Army convoy that killed 11 soldiers and led to the capture of Pfc. Jessica Lynch and five others.

Paulus' court-martial, scheduled to start Monday, was delayed at least a week while the judge presiding over the case ordered prosecutors to try to find the missing bones.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040910/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq_prisoner_death_5

[Catfight]

1. The Pentagon can find them! n/t

[tom_paine]

2. Dem Bones are gone!

Gone...

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bush is one lucky dude!

I'll bet Rummy knows where the bones are buried! Hook Rumbo up to a polygraph!

[Beetwasher]

4. Just Look In The Closet! That's Where You Always Find the Skeletons

Silly Pentagon!

Another coincidence that helps out the BFEE...Amazing how things get lost and it's good for them! Lucky bastards!

[yellowcanine]

5. Find the rest of the Bush TANG documents and I am sure dem bones

will turn up in the same place.

[Bluebear]

7. Perzactly.

[DrWeird]

6. Just like the gondola incident.

Remember that one? American fighter pilots were screwing around over the italian alps when they snapped a cable holding up a gondola. It crashed to the ground killing a number of skiers inside. When it came time for the trial the pilots "checked out" the camera footage from their planes and lo and behold they lost it. They were given a slap on the wrist for mishandling evidence.