The Clarion Ledger reports: "A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday. The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook."

"Sgt. McCook, a deputy at the Hinds County Detention Center, and the 16 other members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company from Rock Hill, S.C., were read their rights and moved from the military barracks into tents, Patricia McCook said her husband told her during a panicked phone call about 5 a.m. Thursday.

The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders, punishable by dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and up to five years confinement, said military law expert Mark Stevens, an associate professor of justice studies at Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C."

Wasn't Bush saying things were getting better in Iraq? Well, I guess they are if you consider arresting all the soldiers who refuse to fight and all the Iraqis who refuse to submit to US domination a way to ensure peace and democracy...

Update: the BBC also reports the news: "Up to 19 soldiers from the unit based near Talil in southern Iraq allegedly failed to carry out their orders."

[Via The Peking Duck and WTF Is It Now??]

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