Baha Mousa - The Latest Victim Of Those 'Bad Apples'

I was going to post a piece to say how it did not take long for the MOD and British Army to trot out the old 'bad apples' clatrap re the murder (still no charges or convictions, notice) of Baha Mousa. But Robert Fisk, a far more worthy observer, has already nailed the garbage:

Baha Mousa's nose was broken. There was blood above the corpse's mouth. The skin had been ripped off his wrists. According to his friend, Baha had been crying and pleading for his life from beneath his hood. "They gave us the names of footballers and cursed us with them as they attacked us," he said.
The Brits did the same in Northern Ireland, I remember. Catholics would often tell me they were given the names of footballers before the beatings began.
A bit systematic, perhaps? "They were kick-boxing us in the chest and between the legs and in the back..." Baha's friend said. "He kept asking them to take the bag off and said he was suffocating. But they laughed at him and kicked him more."
And always there were screwball parallels from officers. We treat the Catholics a lot better than the French Paras treated the Algerians, an officer told me once near Divis Flats. We're not as bad as Saddam. Nor Hitler, I'm glad to say.FULL ARTICLE.