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To: dasboot

I just thought all God's children had prison pictures. :-)


6 posted on 05/26/2004 12:49:27 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
They don't all have pictures from their time in prison.

Some just have stories and the American media doesn't like those kind of news items. This paper from Lebanon was willing to run just such stories.

To Saddam's Prisoners, US Abuse Seems 'a Joke': Some feel past crimes have been forgotten

Speaking about one incident of interrogation/torture, a prisoner at Abu Ghraib gives this chilling, sickening description:

"This is when they brought out his wife, who was five months pregnant. One of the guards said that if he refused to talk he would get 12 guards to rape his wife until she lost the baby. Amer said nothing. So they did. We were forced to watch. Whenever one of us cast down his eyes, they would beat us."

"Amer's wife didn't lose the baby. So the guard took a knife, cut her belly open and took the baby out with his hands. The woman and child died minutes later. Then the guard used the same knife to cut Amer's throat." There is a moment of silence. Then Idrissi says: "What we have seen about the recent abuse at Abu Ghraib is a joke to us."


8 posted on 05/26/2004 4:24:11 AM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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