Moron Delgado's Evolving Story:
As told
to Lip Magazine:
Another provision of the Conventions is that prisoners have to be protected. We were taking constant mortar and artillery bombardment [at Abu Ghraib] from the insurgents outside the prison. Of course, [the prisoners] weren't protected; they were in open tents, and over 50 of them were killed because they were out in the open, they couldn't flee, and they had no cover.Bob Herbert in the
NY Times Monday:
The G.I.'s at Abu Ghraib lived in cells while most of the detainees were housed in large overcrowded tents set up in outdoor compounds that were vulnerable to mortars fired by insurgents. The Army acknowledges that at least 32 Abu Ghraib detainees were killed by mortar fire.Thirty-two is not the same as "over 50".
It's also interesting that with all the talk about Abu Ghraib, this is the first I've heard that the insurgents killed far more prisoners there than US soldiers did.
