(B2431) wrote in message ...
From: "John Keeney"


"Michael P. Reed" wrote in message
.. .
"a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on
detainees;

Are you arguing that a U.S. soldier, specifically an MP, would not
neccessarily
know that the above were illegal?

What the heck would be "illegal" about that?

If your prisoner is from a villiage where high tech means a mule cart and you
tell him the stuff you are putting on him is radioactive I can see where
someone would say it was illegal. The prisoner may fear for his life.

As far as I know the chemical components of the light sticks are non toxic.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired



Same can be said of toilet plungers in New York. The real trick if
one is worried about Osama Bin Laden's press cutting library, is not
to give the impression that surrender is a fate far worse than death.
One could go to a town, show the Abu Grabh photos to potential
recruits, tell them it has to be to the bitter end, they would look
back, end of induction process.