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Posted on 06/02/2004 3:36:44 PM PDT by HAL9000
A video of atrocities under Saddam Hussein shown with the American Senate
A showing video of the atrocities made under the mode of Saddam Hussein, of which some with the prison of Abou Ghraib, was shown Wednesday with the press with the Congress by two American senators.
It is the first time that these images are made public, affirmed the senator Rick Santorum, number three of the republican party to the Senate, specifying that it was about compression in 3 minutes 45 of film a one hour old and half provided by the Pentagon.
"This video (...) is a powerful recall of the reason for which we removed Iraq and the world from this monster (Saddam Hussein)", on his side the democrat Joseph Lieberman declared.
"By inflicting these cruel punishments with its own citizens, Saddam and his mode all the standards of the international law violated and of the civilized world", Mr. Lieberman, former fellow candidate of the democratic candidate Al Gore to presidential of 2000 added.
"As difficult as can be our mission in Iraq today (...) there is no comparison between Iraq under Saddam and Iraq of after-Saddam", insisted Mr. Lieberman, an enthusiastic partisan of the war in Iraq.
But it insisted, "nothing in this video or heard testimonys excuses or does not minimize the behavior of certain Americans to the prison of Abou Ghraib".
The video shows amputations of hand, a decapitation with the sabre, prisoners being made slice the language and others howling of pain while their arm is broken with blows of iron bar.
It was projected in the presence of seven Iraqis, whose right hand was cut down in the Nineties in punishment by a traffic by currency. The amputation of the hand of one of the seven victims, Basim Al Fadhly is shown on the video.
Qasim Kadhim, another Iraqi of the group, estimated after the projection which it was not essential that Saddam Hussein is judged by an international court for crimes against humanity. "Little imports me, as long as the Iraqis take part" in the lawsuit, it has says.
The seven Iraqis are neat free since April in a hospital of Houston, in Texas (southern), the State whose Mr. Bush was a governor, and were made pose prostheses.
They came to Washington to the expenses from a private organization, American Foreign Policy Council, with financial participation of the State Department. They also were received at the White House by the president George W Bush last week.
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Can't wait to see this as the lead story on the "Today Show" tomorrow morning. |
No? Oh come on. The media hasn't completely sold out to the democrats...oh, wait a minute...
Will the NYT run this on the front page for 32 consecutive days like they did the Abu Ghraib incident?
I guess we will now see 27 straight days of front page coverage by the NY Times of Saddam's torture chambers. Oh well, I suppose we will just have to put up with it.
Geez! Isn't it being covered anywhere in the English speaking world?
Of course not. Anything that is the rule (Saddam's and other terrorists' enormous atrocities) and not the exception (the Abu Ghraib anomolies) is not worthy of 2 days' attention, let alone 32.
I tried to find an English-language report, but no luck.
Nothing on this on tonight's alphabet channel "news" reports. Of course they barely covered the President's speech at the Air Force Academy. Only NBC used a clip of the President speaking. PBS didn't cover it at all. The other two spun the speech to be equating Iraq to WWII.
Nice.
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will Fox News show it? I doubt it - they are no better really. Wouldn't run the Don North video of the men with the amputated hands.
The video shows amputations of hand, a decapitation with the sabre, prisoners being made slice the language and others howling of pain while their arm is broken with blows of iron bar.
Oh yeah, panties on a prisoner's head and slicing off a prisoner's head are completely comparable!
SANTORUM COMMENTS ON TORTURE OF IRAQI BUSINESSMEN DURING SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME
Contact: Christine Shott (202) 224-0610
Wednesday, June 2, 2004Washington, DC – Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, held a press conference today with Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL). The Senators introduced seven victims of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and released a never-before-seen video of torture conducted by the regime.
Senator Santorum issued the following statement on the torture of Iraqi businessmen while they were prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1995:
“Saddam Hussein’s regime used torture as one method of instilling fear and asserting authority over the Iraqi people. The seven Iraqi businessmen visiting with us here today suffered physical torture and mutilation by Saddam's brutal regime. In 1995, these men had their right hands removed for the crime of handling U.S. currency, and had ‘X’s’ tattooed on their foreheads as punishment for the economic strife affecting Iraq at that time.
“These men are on Capitol Hill today to share their personal experiences as a testament to the merciless and cruel treatment by the Hussein regime.
“U.S. forces entered Iraq over a year ago to liberate a nation from an inhumane and evil regime. Today, as U.S. forces continue their work in rebuilding Iraq, it is not surprising that remnants of the Hussein regime and their supporters would mount a coordinated terrorist campaign against a free Iraq. Winning freedom is not easy when the opposition believes that torture and persecution are the only ways to govern a nation. There is a lot of work left to do, but we have an opportunity to fight terrorism and to stop the horrific torture and treatment of innocent civilians.”
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If the 3 stooges were honest news anchors, they would treat this like Abu Ghraib, and give 24/7 photos for a month. But it doesn't fit with the "dump on Bush mission," their primary passion, so it will be ignored.
Senators screen video of Abu Ghraib atrocities under Saddam
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two US senators, accompanied by seven Iraqis whose right hands were amputated for currency trading in the 1990s under Saddam Hussein, on Wednesday showed a video of atrocities committed under the old regime in Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, told reporters the three-minute, 45-second clip was a compression of a 90-minute video furnished by the Pentagon.
The video, said Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman, was "a powerful reminder of why we fought to rid Iraq and the world of this monster (Saddam Hussein) and why the Iraqi people and the world are...better off with him gone."
It showed hands being amputated, including those of the seven Iraqis present, one decapitation by sword, prisoners' tongues being cut off and others screaming in pain as their arms were shattered by blows with steel bars.
"We have to prevent the Sunni to come back to power," said Qasim Kadhim, one of the seven.
Asked whether Saddam should be tried by an international court for crimes against humanity, Kadhim said, "I don't care the way Saddam is (put on) trial. But the Iraqi people must be involved."
Saddam, captured by US forces in December, has been granted prisoner-of-war status and is believed being held somewhere in Iraq for a trial still unspecified.
The seven Iraqi former prisoners were brought to Washington by the American Foreign Policy Council, a private group, with additional funding from the US State Department, which carefully orchestrated their media appearances.
They met last week with President George W. Bush at the White House.
You know American Journalism has hit bottom when we have to find out about this from a Babelfish translation from the French!
Let me go in the next room and remind my kids again why the news guys are such ignorant America-hating morons (Of course my kids already know this, which is why they never watch the Alphabet news).
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