Guarding and Feeding Detainees During the Siege of Fallujah

This is an excerpt from the book I am working on:

That night the Marines on post south of the George Washington bridge caught over 80 people trying to escape Fallujah by crossing the river. I got pulled as a driver and gave half a squad of Marines a ride over, then spent three hours waiting on the road while they and another squad helped sort out the detainees the way Captain Stevenson wanted. He kept about 25, all young men, and let the rest go.
The ones he kept were cuffed with zip ties and brought back to the ICDC building in the back of a 7-ton. The next day we were tasked with feeding them and giving them water and watching them while they were interrogated one at a time to see which ones were really likely to be insurgents. A couple of them ate too fast and threw up. Normally throwing up is not a big deal, but when you are handcuffed and ordered to sit cross-legged in the dirt all day, having to sit there and breathe in the stench of your vomit (or the next guy's) all day just sucks. Only a couple were "worth keeping" and the rest were let go by the end of the day. In the scheme of things, it seemed an appropriate slap on the wrist. They were just lucky they were not all shot in the water while crossing.
There was another incident that resulted in detainees, this time two of them being kept in a guard shack by the Brooklyn Bridge. I was asked to take a shift guarding them in the middle of the night. The Lance Corporal that I relieved was tickled to be relieved by a Sergeant and delighted in passing on his orders. The two detainees were sandbagged and zip-cuffed. They were not allowed food, water, or bathroom breaks, so my job was pretty easy. All I had to do was keep them awake. Imbued with a sick sense of power, I enjoyed the situation and even used my Arabic to taunt them. When I was relieved, I made sure to have my picture taken while standing over them, surrounded by their own feces and reeking of urine.

Adam Kokesh, Revolutionary Patriot
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[KirbyFX]

Looks like you had fun down there, i should be going down in a month or so...

[AdamKokesh]

We had our moments, but if you think it was a fun time, you might be in for a surprise. See my other video, "It's important to have a sense of humor . . . " if you want to see EXACTLY what kind of fun it was!

[orpheusine]

Hey Adam, thanks for sharing the excerpt, it must not be easy to write about, to relive it, probably not some of the proudest moments of your life. But conveying the truth of what happened is very important- i'll be reading your book.

[SupositoryRepository]

@UFCextra That's the most fucking retarded thing I think I've ever read. Muslims don't behead everyone they capture. Criminals and terrorists do. And we're not criminals or terrorists so we don't behave like that.

[UFCextra]

Americans should behead them even if innocent...just like Islam beheads all the innocent they capture

[larsanien]

you are right with that phrase... humanity is key in the democracy understanding!!!

[Longtrangdukich]

When the first American troops, from the 82nd Airborne, entered Fallujah they noted it's resembalence to NYC. The smaller of the two trestle bridges which spanned the Euphrates (the bridge where the desecrated remains of the employees of Blackwater were hung) was called the Brooklyn Bridge, and the poor industrial sector was known as Queens.

[seagreenronin]

Maybe it'd be a good idea to clarify that we give things nick names. Just a suggestion. Sort of like how we didn't call the roads in Fallujah by their real names, but gave them Boy and Girl names to make them easier to remember on a grid map.

[AdamKokesh]

What's your point?

[wasy35]

oh thanks for clarification on that crucial point, so fallujah is manhattan? Tv fakery is very real though, war over cartoons?