Hope this isn't a dupe.
This is a must-read, extensive article detailing disgusting and sickening abuse of prisoners. Stupid Bush idiots will believe dough-face Scotty McClellan that one single 300 word Newsweek article is the reason the Muslim world hates us. Read this Vanity Fair article. It made me physically ill. Do these bastards in the Bush administration truly think that Americans can be fooled into believing that the THOUSANDS of stories of prisoner abuse are
not being covered in the international media and are
not a major topic of conversation in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Muslim world?
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Haj Ali shook his head, refusing—nudity in front of other men is a humiliation to Muslim men. He was then punched and slapped. The soldiers removed his clothing by force. Once naked, Haj Ali was again hooded, handcuffed (this time with steel cuffs), and strapped back into a pair of leg-irons. As an afterthought, the soldiers draped the orange jumpsuit around his neck, then forced him up a staircase to another room, where they lifted his hands above his head and looped his handcuffs over a metal hook high in the air.
The room was frigid. "There was some type of fans," he says, "some type of cool breeze." As he dangled naked, the soldiers threw buckets of icy water on him. "It was very cold in Iraq at the time," he says. "It was winter. I had pain in my hand." They began to shout at Haj Ali, berating him through a bullhorn.<snip>
These are some of the other practices and events Haj Ali claims took place while he was on Cellblock 1A at Abu Ghraib, many also documented in now infamous pictures:
• Simulated sex acts, forced between inmates, as well as between guards and inmates.
• The use of attack dogs to frighten prisoners. Haj Ali recalled one American named "Frederick," who always brought a dog. The reference is to army staff sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick, 38, who pleaded guilty to eight counts of abusing and humiliating Iraqis and was sentenced in October to eight years in prison.
• Extended periods—often stretching to weeks, and in one detainee's case months—of public nakedness.
• Public torture. A man and his 18-year-old son were tied naked to live electrical wires for 72 hours and constantly drenched with cold water.
• The forcing of detainees to chant, "I love Bush."
• The shattering of one detainee's upper leg during a fall. Haj Ali said the bone was sticking through the man's skin, and the guards told him he would have to wait until the next day to see the doctor, who was gone for the night.
• Lynndie England's leading a naked man, prostrate on the floor, by a dog collar and leash. According to Haj Ali, the man in this widely distributed photograph is an imam at a large mosque in Baghdad.
• The death of one man as he was being tortured; Charles Graner and Specialist Sabrina Harman then had their pictures taken with his lifeless body as macabre souvenirs.
• And, finally, the degradations that led to the hooded man on the box becoming a worldwide symbol.http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050124roco01
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