Recollections Hazy

So, Newsweek's story is roundly condemned by Team Bush's Scotty (McClellan) terrier...but, as we've seen, it turns out to be more a matter of technicalities.

The ACLU discovered additional cases where the military decided to play its own version of Punk'd! with detainees. Sworn testimony not only reveals various incidents where copies of the Koran were desecrated, but at least one case of a mock execution, where an Army captain "took an Iraqi welder into the desert, told him to dig his own grave, verbally threatened to kill him and had other soldiers stage a shooting of the man."

This one, though, puzzles me--I can't decide if it's a)another fraternity prank, or b)just letting off some steam:

In a separate incident uncovered in the Rifles Base investigation, the driver and passenger of an Iraqi fire truck were detained for failing to turn off the truck's headlights. Multiple soldiers reported that a captain kicked the detainees, threatened to kill them, and held a pistol to the head of one of the detainees, even though the detainees did not offer resistance of any kind. The detainees were released later that evening.