{"id":643,"date":"2003-05-31T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2003-05-31T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2003-05-31T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2003-05-31T14:58:11","slug":"cultural-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Cultural sensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"Maybe you don&#8217;t read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/1,,2003250508,00.html\">Sun<\/a>. Maybe you don&#8217;t know what exactly it is that some British troops did, and photographed themselves doing, to Iraqi prisones of war. So here&#8217;s the money quote:<br \/>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/1,,2003250508,00.html\">\n<span class=\"caps\">ONE <\/span>[photo] was apparently taken in a warehouse. It showed a man stripped at least to the waist and suspended high in the air by a rope attached to one of the forks on a fork-lift truck.<br \/>\nMore rope bound him throughout the length of his body.<br \/>\nHe was hanging horizontally and his frightened face was in close-up. A soldier driving the fork-lift truck could be seen in the background, staring at his victim and apparently laughing.<br \/>\n<span class=\"caps\">ANOTHER <\/span>picture showed a pair of white legs and the head of a male Iraqi.<br \/>\nThe hand of a man behind the Iraqi&#8217;s head appeared to be forcing him to perform oral sex.<br \/>\nThe Iraqi was squatting and again appeared to be at least naked to the waist. The soldier&#8217;s face was not visible.<\/blockquote>\nNo wonder the Army is angry and ashamed. The men who did this should spend years in a military jail. So should their <span class=\"caps\">NCO<\/span>s and their officer. The rest of the platoon should be dispersed into other regiments.\n\n<p>It is also rather frighteing to think that this guy was so stupid, as well as vicious, that he handed the films in to Boots for processing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you don&#8217;t read the Sun. Maybe you don&#8217;t know what exactly it is that some British troops did, and photographed themselves doing, to Iraqi prisones of war. So here&#8217;s the money quote: <span class=\"caps\">ONE <\/span>[photo] was apparently taken in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}