06‏/04‏/2004

Alpha Company, forced the two men to jump into the Tigris River



That night, Rudesheim said, an infantry patrol picked up two Iraqi men on curfew violations. "For no explicable reason," he said, soldiers in the patrol, from the battalion's Alpha Company, forced the two men to jump into the Tigris River.

(washingtonpost.com)
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"It's a little like the French colonel in 'The Battle of Algiers,' ' he said, referring to the 1965 film about the Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. That is, he explained, the French officer said, ' 'You're all complaining about the tactics I am using to win the war, but that is what I am doing -- winning the war.' "

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