Torture's Victims Tell of Screams Unheard [Iraq]

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 13, 2003 | Mark Magnier

[Kay Soze]

NASIRIYAH, Iraq -- Sheik Lami Abbas Ajali looked around at the small cell where he spent several bleak weeks of his life and recounted the torture: how he was hit, prodded, had his eyelids pulled back, had electric shocks applied to his temples and genitals, how his hands were cuffed behind him then raised until he was off the ground.

He recalled Saturday how torturers stuffed 10 suspects into an 8-by-6-foot room so only two could sleep at any given time while the other eight were forced to stand

[unsycophant]

Yeah they love gay Pareeeee alright. Watch--they'll all be vying for the role of Saddam Hussein in the Hollyweird version of "Saddam: Embedded in Concrete" in six months.

[backhoe]

I wonder why CNN always shows the looters (over & over & over...)and leaves out or mentions only in passing most of the stories in the link?

Offhand wilda$$guess? The looters "prove" we did wrong- causing anarchy... whereas the tales of torture might prove us right...

[Paul Atreides]

Oh man! Get ready for Hollywood to churn out the movies detailing Iraqi families who knew no suffering until President Bush and his military of baby-killers came along. Also, movies featuring some noble human shield.

[Paul Atreides]

CNN?! They stayed quiet on the tortures for a decade. Don't expect a pleasant smell from a backed-up toilet.

[Humidston]

Someone posted not long ago.... FReepers have set up numerous password and usernames we can all use... Try "Annoying/Annoying." It's been working for me everywhere I've gone!

[Kay Soze]

I am a 46 year old American and first generation from Hungary.

I have spent three summers at my Grandmothers in Budapest PRIOR to the fall of the Iron Curtain.

I have seen repression first hand, and am in a position to debate ANYONE ANYTIME on Socialism and Communism.


Samuel Jackson and Susan Saddam Sarandon would scream till their make up ran if they had to live one week under such a government.

[Paul Atreides]

They would scream if they had to live like the rabble of flyover country.

[PhilDragoo]

Free the Hollywood 123 from living in the United States of America.

They will fit nicely into a C-17 and can be delivered to someplace cool--say, an ice floe.

To remind them it will be a cold day in hell before they work again.

[Aria]

They are spoiled arrogant children who live in a fantasy land and don't have the brains to separate wishful thinking from reality.

[Enterprise]

"The Beastie Boys"

LOL!. Now if anyone, ANYONE were to make Saddam's fave list it would HAVE to be someone with a name like THE BEASTIE BOYS.

[Enterprise]

Well if they do turn out such movies, get a crowd of FReepers together to see the movie and laugh and jeer at them unmercifully.

[Paul Atreides]

I was in Wal Mart the other day. They have PLENTY of copies of The Banger Sisters. Most of the other movies are pretty low on quantity.

[Enterprise]

The BANGER SISTERS? LOL! Clinton must be salivating to meet them all!! LIFE IS TOO FUNNY SOME TIMES!

[Fester Chugabrew]

"The following stood for Saddam and his, racism, relgious persecution, illegal arrests, torture, murder, rape, dismemberment of innocents . . ."

And so it goes for all who said, "We know Saddam is a bad guy, but . . . ." And those who say, "There must have been a cheaper, easier way to get rid of Saddam." We need to throw this back in their face constantly. There are no excuses.

This regime fell none too soon. Sheez, it should have fallen under x41.

[lepton]

I thought I had read a while ago that Melissa Gilbert was a Conservative.

Don't know about her, but her husband is. So is Gerry Doyle...also of B5.

[Sabatier]

Thank you for this list. What I find particularly surprising is that anyone of the Jewish faith and a memory for history would be pro-Saddam.

[Kay Soze]

We will never know if there was a cheaper way to remove the statue as Pelosi (Millionaire Demon-crat Califronia) has put it.

Clinton never tried in his 8 years to FORCE the UN, directly or indirectly to stop the sanctions leaking and violations of UN Resolutions by china, france, germany and russia.

He was busily dipping his Cigars into young interns. And the rest of the demon-crats spent their time and energies defending him.

Point is the demon-crats did not do it.

We did.

[MissouriForBush]

I was looking at a two-year-old fashion magazine recently and it had an interview with Kate Hudson where she was railing loudly and nastily against President Bush, conservatives, Republicans, etc. If she has been quiet lately, it is only out of concern for the box-office $$$ from her recent movie releases.

"Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" have long been popular venues for actors and actresses to broadcast their disgust with us "dumb hicks" out in flyover country.