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| SaddamŽs ''sleepless nights'' revealed in FBI files |
| 2009-05-06 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] In his final days, ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein complained of torture and severe "beatings" as well sleep deprivation in a series of letters penned during his time in American captivity, press reports said on Tuesday. The handwritten letters, obtained by the New York Daily News, poured out complaints of mental and physical abuse by the "detention gang" of the United States military jailers. In one letter Hussein wrote: "not a single part of my body was spared of the severe harm inflicted by the detention gang," adding, "some of the traces are still visible on my body." Hussein described his detention center -- believed to be inside Baghdad International Airport -- as a nightmarish chamber where sleepless nights echoed the screams of prisoners being tortured. "My opportunity to sleep in this place is limited and almost scarce," Saddam wrote. "I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart who can sleep amidst the screams of the tortured and the many blows of the doors and the squeaking sounds of the chairs." In one letter written on Christmas day 2003, the former Iraqi leader claimed that in the past three days, the "total hours of sleep did not exceed four to five hours." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 *** cough cough *** ***cough cough **** .... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-05-06 23:29 |
| #11 "total hours of sleep did not exceed four to five hours." Napoleon never slept more than 4 hours. But sure Napoleon you weren't |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-05-06 16:57 |
| #10 Let him and all his cronies sleep in a corner, with one foot tied to a pully in the ceiling. Every thirty minutes, crank the rope up another six inches until he's hanging upside down from the ceiling. THEN he can complain about "not getting any sleep". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-05-06 16:19 |
| #9 The screaming only keeps him awake when he is aware that he could be the one screaming next. I bet he rather enjoyed the screaming while he was the one in charge of the torturing. ...not that I actually believe that flushing the Koran down the toilet or wearing women's underwear on ones head actually amounts to torture... |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-05-06 15:58 |
| #8 Really! So, when will Michael Moore have the movie out? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-05-06 15:36 |
| #7 "Now industrial shredders - I could fall asleep listening to those!" |
| Posted by: Ghost of Saddam 2009-05-06 13:54 |
| #6 I, for one would be proud to be asked to run the tapes of screaming at odd nightly intervals in his cell, sleep deprivation mimics insanity, (But he already was, so How could you tell?) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-05-06 13:49 |
| #5 Must have been reading some of those al Qaeda training manuals he "captured". |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-05-06 13:46 |
| #4 Awww, gee whiz. Tune up the nano-violin. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-05-06 10:59 |
| #3 "I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart..." Let's all say it together, kids... "SOCIOPATH!" No doubt these letters will be seized upon by the 'human rights' crowd as further evidence of American heartlessness. Never mind that the first diagnostic rule of dealing with ASPD is that you can never trust the patient- they lie and deceive as a matter of course. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-05-06 04:57 |
| #2 The poor guy! |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-06 03:43 |
| #1 I think he's getting some sleep now, eh? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-05-06 01:22 |