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| Maybe They Shredded the Evidence? |
| 2004-02-25 |
| An Iraqi who worked as a doctor in the hospital attached to Abu Ghraib prison tells me there was no shredding machine in the prison. The Iraqi, who wishes to remain anonymous, describes the prison as "horrific". Part of his job was to attend to those who had been executed. Did he ever attend to, or hear of, prisoners who had been shredded? "No." Did any of the other doctors at Abu Ghraib speak of a shredding machine used to execute prisoners? "No, never. As far as I know [hanging] was the only form of execution used there." Nobody died under torture? At all? Hmmmm... |
| Posted by:Rawsnacks |
| #4 So the Nazis didn't feed Jews to lions? What else are they falsely accused of? I don't care about shredders as long as the Iraqis can see the mass graves. Of course, as Saddam says, they were all thieves and criminals, right? Which is just perfect for a man who robbed his country for decades and managed to cart away a billion dollars just on his last day. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-2-25 10:19:04 PM |
| #3 As I mentioned over on Tim Blair's site, the left is trying to discredit the shredder story to give themselves an out. You see, if they can cast enough doubt on it, they'll be able to respond to any mention of Saddam's atrocities with "yeah, like the shredder?" It's the same trick Holocaust-deniers play with the few false claims about Nazi practices during the Holocaust: "X didn't happen, so how do we know Y, Z, A, B, C, D... did?" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-25 9:12:56 PM |
| #2 ZF's right there is plenty of evidence that large numbers of doctors were involved in torture and punishment amputations - ears, tongues, and who knows what else. Of course he's not going to admit to it. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-2-25 9:11:47 PM |
| #1 Nobody died under torture? At all? Hmmmm... What doctor is going to admit to committing war crimes? Are journalists in a position to provide him with confidentiality? Sickening crimes like this are exactly why Saddam's helpers are being beaten and killed daily. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-2-25 9:01:29 PM |