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| Videotape Shows Saddam’s Men Torturing Iraqis |
| 2003-10-30 |
| Fox News; EFL. Main article includes a link to streaming video, if you can stand to watch it. 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. The 23-minute long tape contains several scenes of Saddam Fedayeen 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. Tom Malinowski, a director of Human Rights Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said the tape provided a clear picture of how the former government instilled fear in the Iraqi people. "It reminds us that Saddam’s regime took sadistic pleasure in documenting the horrors it perpetrated on the Iraqi people," Malinowski said. "In fact, they wanted people to know this, because the purpose of this treatment was to terrorize the population so no one would even think of opposing Saddam." Similar tapes have been found in Iraqi prisons, military facilities and even the private video collections of Uday and Qusay, Saddam’s sons, who were killed by U.S. forces in a dramatic July shootout. Copies of several tapes have become brisk sellers in Baghdad marketplaces. Remember, kids, that Uday and Qusay considered these tapes a pleasant diversion. Though at times improperly termed an "elite" unit, the Fedayeen was a politically reliable force that could be counted on to support Saddam against domestic opponents, according to GlobalSecurity.org. It started out as a rag-tag force of some 10,000-15,000 "bullies and country bumpkins" but later helped protect Saddam and Uday and carried out much of the regime’s dirty work. A special "death squadron" was created to carry out secret executions. According to our old friend Murat, we should have left Saddam in power and let this all continue. After all, the Iraqis were so much better off with the Fedayeen in charge, weren’t they? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #12 Should be showing this on Iraqi TV--and if we haven't set THAT up--the US is really screwed |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-31 12:39:22 AM |
| #11 Surprising how Murat hasn't chimed in yet.....Oh wait a minute, that's only if it involves us. Sorry, disregard my last. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-31 12:06:42 AM |
| #10 Metr0 Metr0 Man, I wanna be your Metr0 man. |
| Posted by: Clean Dean The Love Machine 2003-10-30 8:55:35 PM |
| #9 That video should be shown at the so-called 'peace' rallies on big jumbo screens! Defend that ANSWER! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-30 6:17:03 PM |
| #8 Hey, c'mon. Noam Chomsky says this guy wasn't a threat to anybody. And he's a fuckin' genius! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-30 5:24:04 PM |
| #7 Hannity says he's going to show it again on their Fox show tonight |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-30 4:18:31 PM |
| #6 Gruesome, but I'm glad it's out. I find it amazing that Saddam & Son's atrocities got only about three days of attention during the last days of the actual war. |
| Posted by: ccwbass 2003-10-30 3:41:10 PM |
| #5 But Saddam is a man of pieces err peace. This is nothing more than Zionist plot to dicredit the LEGITIMATE leader of the Iraqi people. What you really saw was part of the Saddam Universal Heath Care System. That poor man had arithic fingers, so they had to be removed. The other person had a lisp and had trouble saying: 'Saddam Aack Bhar'. After the tounge operation viola, no more lisp! This is just like the Health Care system I want for America and I want your vote. |
| Posted by: Howard Dean, Metroman 2003-10-30 3:32:56 PM |
| #4 Cool! Thanks! FoxNews is pretty good at being balanced. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-10-30 3:09:39 PM |
| #3 Actually CrazyFool, Fox news was showing some fairly graphic chunks last night. They cut short of the guys fingers being lopped off but they told us what was going to happen. Same with the toungue slicing. They showed a guy tossed off a two story building and most of a beheading. Carefully edited, bordering on tasteless, but still an important reminder of the savagery that the US desplaced. |
| Posted by: Yanks 2003-10-30 3:04:41 PM |
| #2 Fox showed edited clips on Shepard Smiths' show yesterday |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-30 3:03:37 PM |
| #1 Think this will be broadcast on a network? Didn't think so.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-10-30 2:29:21 PM |