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| Iraq Committee Shows Torture Equipment | |
| 2004-07-24 | |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Torture equipment used by Saddam Hussein's slain son, Odai, to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes was displayed Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the opening of the Olympics next month in Athens. Journalists were shown medieval-style torture equipment, including an "iron maiden-like" casket with metal spikes fixed to the inside that athletes had been forced into and chain whips with steel barbs the size of tennis balls attached to the end. "During the old regime, Odai was looking for results and he wanted winners. He didn't like second place," Talib Mutan, an Iraqi Olympics Committee official, told Associated Press Television News. "If the athletes didn't come in first, they were punished. And he would punish the people around the athletes, their managers and coaches included," Mutan said. Mutan said athletes who earned Odai's wrath were tortured in various ways, through beatings, sleep deprivation and being forced to walk barefoot over hot asphalt during Iraq's searing summer. The official said suggestions had been made to display the torture equipment in a museum, but there had been no final decision.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Brutus, that is no fantasy (or nightmare)... That is what every person sees when they only get their news from the steford anchors of ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/BBC/... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-25 11:01:20 AM |
| #5 I can see it now. We'll use our newly invented liberal-o-vision to see inside one of these torture centers. (queue TV show music for fantasy thoughts) Here folks, we can see a room upon which every wall has pictures and articles praising the Presidents Bush. How horrible. It has been said that victims often broke by merely being told about this room's existence. This next room is quite scary. It is filled with loudspeakers which continually play tapes of various talk show hosts such as Limbaugh, Hannity , and Savage. The guards here make the wretched souls here write papers expousing the correctness of their views. The final, and worst room -- from which only two known liberals have emerged from alive -- is the most nefarious of them all. The guards speak of it only in hushed tones as "the room." When taken there, the victim is presented with all of the various mistakes she has made throughout her life. In this room, she is asked to perform then forced to perform the most outrageous act possible: she must be responsible for herself. That is right! She is booted into the world with nary a social program to aid her and forced to work and pay taxes. The horror. The shame. It asounds the mind that men can think of such atrocities upon which to afflict our kind. |
| Posted by: Brutus 2004-07-24 10:40:38 PM |
| #4 But no woman's panties so no coverage on the mainstream media.... How has the media sunk so low? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-24 10:04:31 PM |
| #3 And they should be spiffy, too. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-24 6:09:02 PM |
| #2 Well, then it can't really be instruments of torture unless there are women's panties. Don't these people even watch 60 Minutes? Sheesh! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2004-07-24 5:57:22 PM |
| #1 No panties, I see. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-07-24 5:23:48 PM |
