Iraqi Tells of U.S. Abuse, From Ridicule to Rape Threat

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/international/middleeast/14PRIS.html?pagewanted=print&position=

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BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 13 — The rough road to confession began with the ridicule of the naked and hooded prisoner's name: Saddam.

The now-former prisoner, Saddam Saleh Aboud, 29, said that escalated into a threat of rape by an American soldier named Ivan in the 1-A block of Abu Ghraib prison. Then, he said, he was chained in a sitting position to the bars of a cell for 23 hours in a day. Loud music thumped, he said. He urinated where he sat.

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"They began talking to me," Mr. Aboud said. "They asked, `Do you know the Islamic opposition?' I said, `Yes.' " They asked, `Do you know Zarqawi?"' referring to a Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to Al Qaeda. "I told them, `I am his driver, I swear to God.' "

"They asked me about Osama bin Laden," he said. "I said, `I am Osama bin Laden but I am disguised.' "

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