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| Iraq | |
| Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib | |
| 2006-09-11 | |
The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors. That didn't take long, did it? Where's the furor, the seething? Both at home and abroad. Staff at the jail say the Iraqi authorities have moved dozens of terrorist suspects into Abu Ghraib from the controversial Interior Ministry detention centre in Jadriyah, where United States troops last year discovered 169 prisoners who had been tortured and starved. No more of the inefficiency of redundancies this way. An independent witness who went into Abu Ghraib this week told The Sunday Telegraph that screams were coming from the cell blocks housing the terrorist suspects. Prisoners released from the jail this week spoke of routine torture of terrorism suspects and on Wednesday, 27 prisoners were hanged in the first mass execution since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. Must think they've already gotten anything useful out of them. And they're probably right. I wonder if Ahmed is still an innocent shoe merchant. | |
| Posted by:Snainter Cluger1005 |
| #11 Take out your ear plugs! LOL |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-09-11 22:59 |
| #10 "I can't HEAR you!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2006-09-11 22:57 |
| #9 gorb, when I saw the England's pic at the link, a thought just occurred to me that the commanding officer responsible for the prison may have said: "and keep the terrorist prisoners on leash". England just interpretted it too literaly. |
| Posted by: zazz 2006-09-11 22:42 |
| #8 Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards. "OK, I guess you can follow us to our new base, but you'll have to bring your own leash. You'll be handcuffed so you'll have to carry it in your teeth." :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-11 17:41 |
| #7 Sorry! Here's the link. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-11 15:33 |
| #6 ANSWER condemning the very idea of a sense of proportion in 5, 4, 3Â… |
| Posted by: Korora 2006-09-11 14:55 |
| #5 I'm sure Amnesia International and HRW will get right on it. Yup. Because, they're like all impartial 'n devoted to real human rights 'n stuff.... |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-09-11 13:48 |
| #4 I just got through watching Lilek's video recap/tribute from 9/11. Therefore, my sympathy meter, which has been on the fritz for five years, is assured of malfunctioning for a long time to come. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-11 10:42 |
| #3 No Airconditioning!?!?!?!!?!? Get real. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2006-09-11 10:27 |
| #2 I'm trying to feel bad about this. Just can't find any tears..... Bwhahahahahahahah! (Needs a meter) |
| Posted by: john 2006-09-11 10:04 |
| #1 "prisoners were hanged in the first mass execution since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime." Nice attempt at moral equivalnce: equating duly conveicted terrorists in oopen court to Saddam's "mass executions" of Kurds, etc. F__king disgusting journos spinning stuff, I am so damned tired of it. What ever happened to "straight reporting"? |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-09-11 08:33 |