Iraqi Prisoner Details Abuse by Americans

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Sun May-02-04 12:56 PM
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Iraqi Prisoner Details Abuse by Americans

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040502/ap_on_re_mi_ea/prisoner_abuse&cid=540&ncid=1480

NAJAF, Iraq - Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.

Now the 30-year-old, who used to work in a fabric shop, is a die-hard fighter in the al-Mahdi Army, the fanatic militia of a Shiite Muslim cleric who has vowed to take on the Americans.

Al-Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam's regime, he was electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back.

"But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said. "Shoot me here," he added, pointing between his eyes, "but don't do this to us."

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Sun May-02-04 01:07 PM
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1. So I guess Bu$h gets to go to the top of the class?

He has now earned the right to say he's worse than Saddam.

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Sun May-02-04 01:11 PM
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2. It's EASY for the Cowardly CHIMPANZEE

He obtains arousal by getting others to kill for him. although the uncensored pictures of Lynndie England playing with Iraqi Penises must have got him excited

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teryang

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Sun May-02-04 01:19 PM
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3. Hersh said that stripping prisoners

...nude in view of others was a standard technique for the prison, or that he infers this from the circumstantial evidence. It wasn't the idea of the reserve guards, it was an intelligence interogation technique.

Stripping prisoners of their clothes is a known technique to break them.

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Sun May-02-04 01:37 PM
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4. It is just a few men here and there that is causing all the problems, 'eh?

Edited on Sun May-02-04 01:38 PM by 0007

"America's top general, Gen. Richard Myers, said Sunday there was no evidence of "systematic abuse" and the actions of "just a handful" have unfairly tainted all American forces."

Even the top general has learned how to say what junior and Rummy sez almost daily. "just a handful"

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sun May-02-04 02:04 PM
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5. Here's evidence of systemic abuse

Even their advertising condones and promotes criminal behavior. Obviously, this is an attitude that predominates in Bu$hler's army.

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Sun May-02-04 02:14 PM
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6. I feel like I am watching a wildfire completely out of control.

Effin' PNACers lit the match that started the whole drawn-out, devastating episode.

So much damage,...so much injury,...so much healing to do.

:cry:

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