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Spirit of America, led by Jim Hake [raised] money to equip six Iraqi TV stations in Al Anbar province. The project was led there by the First Marine Expeditionary Force and the Army.... The Spirit of America's Iraq democracy project came together.... The pro-freedom Iraqi bloggers [posted]their delightful account of a first-ever trip beyond Iraq's borders... at iraqthemodel.com. Other Iraqis... are willing to take personal risks to educate the Iraqi people about the meaning and purpose of democracy before that January election date.... To get the word out, the Friends of Democracy plans to use all available media. Plans so...

This is the documentary about the 7 men who had their right hands cut off by order of Saddam who had the horror videotaped. Don North is the journalist who was given the video of the amputations. He found the seven men, and thru his and the efforts of others the seven where brought to the US, received new prosthetics, met President Bush etc. Go to the website to link to the WSJ article by Daniel Henninger: "Want a Different Abu Ghraib Story? Try This One" I tracked Mr. North down and found out that no one i.e. "Sixty Minutes",...

Please consider sending a letter to FRONTLINE to suggest they pursue the possibility of airing Don North's documentary. FRONTLINE 125 Western Avenue Boston, MA 02134 Fax: 617-300-1001 Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/ » How can I submit a story idea? Story ideas can be sent to the above address, to the attention of the FRONTLINE Series Editor. FRONTLINE welcomes suggestions from our viewers and we review all letters and ideas. We produce approximately 18 new programs each season and evaluate over 600 program suggestions and proposals.

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May 28, 2004 -- IT'S their gentleness, their sense of joy and optimism, that's so amazing — and so moving — after the savagery they faced. They are seven Iraqi men whose right hands got chopped off on Saddam Hussein's orders on charges of trading in U.S. dollars. Chopped off by doctors in an obscene travesty of medicine, but so sloppily that they were in constant pain. They are here, thanks to filmmaker Don North and the kindness of many Americans to arrange free treatment and individually cast high-tech right hands that have given back some of what they lost....

I had a strange experience the other morning at the Heritage Foundation. I watched seven Iraqi men as they sat through a documentary that included scenes of their own right hands being lopped off by Saddam Hussein's "physicians" at the now-famous Abu Ghraib prison in the mid-'90s. Some fidgeted, some cried, and others stared straight ahead, muscles tensed. These men are the subject of Remembering Saddam, produced by former ABC and NBC correspondent Don North shortly after the liberation of Baghdad last year. Interviews of the men and their families are juxtaposed with footage that was seized by the U.S....

"In 1995 at -- appropriately -- Abu Ghraib prison, nine Iraqi businessmen were surgically "relieved" of their right hands. While TV news producer Don North was in Iraq last year, he was shown videotapes made by Saddam's men of the amputations and determined that he would find these men and help them. He found seven of them and made his own documentary of their story including medical help. That help came in the form of state-of-the-art electronic hands, with fingers, that respond to trained muscular movements. The $50,000 hands were donated by Otto Bock, a German-American prosthetic company. The seven...