Iraqi Prisoner Details Abuse by Americans

.....Al-Shweiri said he was not surprised to see TV images of smiling U.S. soldiers posing by naked, hooded inmates who, in one photograph, were piled in a human pyramid.

Al-Shweiri, who was arrested by the Americans in October, said he was asked to take off his clothes only once and for about 15 minutes.

"I thought they wanted me to change into the red prison uniform, so I took off my clothes, down to my underwear. Then he asked me to take off my underwear. I started arguing with him but in the end he made me take off my underwear," said al-Shweiri, who was too embarrassed to go into too much detail.

He said he and six other prisoners — all hooded — had to face the wall and bend over a little as they put their hands on the wall.

"They made us stand in a way that I am ashamed to describe. They came to look at us as we stood there. They knew this would humiliate us," he said, adding that he was not sodomized.


"They were trying to humiliate us, break our pride. We are men. It's OK if they beat me. Beatings don't hurt us, it's just a blow. But no one would want their manhood to be shattered," he said.


"They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman," al-Shweiri said.....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040502/ap_on_re_mi_ea/prisoner_abuse_23

in more ways than one.

very enlightening. We can see how women are viewed and valued, at least by this man. :thumbsdown:

However, what about this part? "Al-Shweiri's account could not be independently verified."

Maybe it this is more propaganda to discredit the significance of the prison torture?

held by most men in that part of the world. Sometimes I wonder about here in the good ol' U.S. of A. too.

I've not bothered to wonder myself for I know about that one ...