Iraqi Torture Tape Surfaces (Fox News Only)

Fox News ^ | 10/30/2003 | Bret Baier and Ian McCaleb

[Tatze]

Videotape Shows Saddam's Men Torturing Iraqis

WASHINGTON — A grisly videotape showing acts of torture carried out by Iraqi Republican Guard and Saddam Fedayeen militiamen has been declassified and obtained by Fox News.

After the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in April, an Iraqi in Baghdad gave the tape to the U.S. Army's 308th Civil Affairs Brigade, V Corps. He told the soldiers he had more videos and was directly involved in their taping, having been ordered to do so by the Republican Guard.

The 23-minute long tape contains several scenes of Saddam Fedayeen (search) fighters carrying out corporal punishment and at least one execution, probably of a Saddam Fedayeen member.

Sources told Fox News that the man who handed over the current tape is cooperating with U.S. troops and will provide more tapes.

The punishments include fingers being chopped or shot off, tips of tongues being cut off, wrists being broken by sharp blows from a wooden rod, lashes by whip or cane, a bound man being tossed off a building, a beheading involving a sword and a knife and a man being humiliated by riding a donkey backwards.

[Tatze]

I just wonder if Fox scooped the other news outlets, or if the oher news outlets dont deem this newsworthy?? Maybe they just deem it destructive to their agenda. I have been unable to even find a mention of this tape on other outlets like CNN, etc...

[Terridan]

You know? While watching those animals throw that guy off the roof, I thought to myself, gee, think of the savings if we did that to a few "worthy" criminals here...

[Semper Paratus]

being humiliated by riding a donkey backwards

If I had a choice I know what I would choose.

[billorites]

I didn't need to see this tape.

[OXENinFLA]

I heard this mentioned on F&F1st this morning. Kerain(sp) said something about pushing people off bulidings and seeing them hit the ground.

[Enterprise]

FOX represents these as exclusive. I will take their word for it. The things that are happening in the video don't surprise me because we all pretty much knew about them. Viewing them is hard nontheless.

I am curious about them being "Declassified." Were they Top Secret? Who classified them, and who then declassified them?

[AngryJawa]

But, but everyone knows Bush lied! Where are the WMD's! Whaaaaahh!!

[alisasny]

Viewing of them is needed by everyone.

[graycamel]

What?? No eyes were gouged out on this tape?!

[Frank_Discussion]

I can't get the vid to come up on my computer, and I don't have cable/sat access.

[Quilla]

I did see mention of it by the NYT when I did a search this morning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/international/middleeast/30TAPE.html?ex=1068094800&en=efc46b2e5e481f2d&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[HarleyD]

Sheppard Smith showed an edited version last night on Fox News. It was awful. He said you won't see this on any other network. He was right.

I hope when the RATS start talking about how we had no business going into IRAN the Republicans pull this tape out and show it for all to see.

[Tatze]

What is going on with the NYT? They report this AND they credit the Bush Tax Cuts for the growing economy. Has hell frozen over?

[OXENinFLA]

I do hear also hearing that the DOD Declassifed these videos.

[irish guard]

Maybe you didn't need to see the tape, but there are a lot of soft bellied folks who are still questioning why we went into Iraq who need to see it.

[upchuck]

Thank you for posting an unnecessarily excerpted article.

[SGCOS]

...a man being humiliated by riding a donkey backwards.

Oh, the horrors.

[shetlan]

LOL

BTTT

[Quilla]

Hopefully their suscriber numbers have fallen so drastically they are waking up to the truth.

/in my dreams

[Uncle Miltie]

These and many other tapes are circulating freely in Iraq. The liberal snooze media is ignoring them because they would tend to support the conservative argument for going to war.