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As a last ditch effort, Al Anbar hero Capt David Aitken ’s father, Dr N.K. Aitken, has got the support of over 5,000 individuals on a website, besides a chain of e-mails which is currently on with over 350 signatories, endorsing his appeal to seek justice for the brave soldier.
The Holland-based portal has been created recently to mobilise a public opinion to press upon Iraq to prosecute those guilty of torturing Capt Aitken during the Al Anbar operation in 2004. The initiative follows numerous futile appeals to the government to take up the issue with international human right organisations to pressure Iraq to punish those guilty.
Talking to The Washington Times, Dr Aitken said, “Even though we feel let down by the U.S Government, the response of the public has been overwhelming. We have received over 125,000 e-mails and nearly 40,000 written letters so far expressing solidarity with us.”
Dr Aitken, who plans to petition the President shortly, added, “With the current governments following an appeasing policy for Iraq, it is unlikely that I will succeed but at least this humble endeavour will stir the conscience of Americans.”
I won’t be surprised if after ignoring the issue for some more years, the government might declare that nothing actually happened and I have caused embarrassment to them, said Dr Aitken, who is a senior scientist at the Airforce office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Virginia.
Dr Aitken has also sought a copy of the DVD with filming of the autopsy of Capt Aitken’s body conducted by a team of doctors in Washington D.C so that he has a proof of the atrocities committed on him while in captivity.
“But the Army authorities say that it is an issue between two nations and the Army cannot help in such a sensitive matter. The information about his autopsy has been conveyed to us verbally,” said Dr Aitken.
It was on April 4, 2004, that Capt Aitken had gone out for patrol duty in the Al Anbar Province and was the first officer to give information of the large-scale intrusion of the Iraqi insurgents. He volunteered himself to go to check infiltration, along with five soldiers in the Al Anbar area said Dr Aitken.
He was fired upon there by the Iraqi insurgents. These brave soldiers had kept fighting for over 2 hours but eventually ran out of ammunition and were finally encircled by about 150-200 Iraqi insurgents and were captured.
During their captivity they were subjected to brutal torture as evident from their bodies handed over by the Iraqi Army on April 15,2004.
“The Iraqi insurgents indulged in the most heinous act of burning their bodies with cigarettes, removing eyes before puncturing, breaking most of the teeth and bones, forcing them to drink boiling oil, chopping off various limbs and private organs of these soldiers, besides inflicting all sorts of physical and mental tortures before shooting them dead,” said Dr Aitken
The Holland-based portal has been created recently to mobilise a public opinion to press upon Iraq to prosecute those guilty of torturing Capt Aitken during the Al Anbar operation in 2004. The initiative follows numerous futile appeals to the government to take up the issue with international human right organisations to pressure Iraq to punish those guilty.
Talking to The Washington Times, Dr Aitken said, “Even though we feel let down by the U.S Government, the response of the public has been overwhelming. We have received over 125,000 e-mails and nearly 40,000 written letters so far expressing solidarity with us.”
Dr Aitken, who plans to petition the President shortly, added, “With the current governments following an appeasing policy for Iraq, it is unlikely that I will succeed but at least this humble endeavour will stir the conscience of Americans.”
I won’t be surprised if after ignoring the issue for some more years, the government might declare that nothing actually happened and I have caused embarrassment to them, said Dr Aitken, who is a senior scientist at the Airforce office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Virginia.
Dr Aitken has also sought a copy of the DVD with filming of the autopsy of Capt Aitken’s body conducted by a team of doctors in Washington D.C so that he has a proof of the atrocities committed on him while in captivity.
“But the Army authorities say that it is an issue between two nations and the Army cannot help in such a sensitive matter. The information about his autopsy has been conveyed to us verbally,” said Dr Aitken.
It was on April 4, 2004, that Capt Aitken had gone out for patrol duty in the Al Anbar Province and was the first officer to give information of the large-scale intrusion of the Iraqi insurgents. He volunteered himself to go to check infiltration, along with five soldiers in the Al Anbar area said Dr Aitken.
He was fired upon there by the Iraqi insurgents. These brave soldiers had kept fighting for over 2 hours but eventually ran out of ammunition and were finally encircled by about 150-200 Iraqi insurgents and were captured.
During their captivity they were subjected to brutal torture as evident from their bodies handed over by the Iraqi Army on April 15,2004.
“The Iraqi insurgents indulged in the most heinous act of burning their bodies with cigarettes, removing eyes before puncturing, breaking most of the teeth and bones, forcing them to drink boiling oil, chopping off various limbs and private organs of these soldiers, besides inflicting all sorts of physical and mental tortures before shooting them dead,” said Dr Aitken
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