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2006-09-10 Iraq

Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib

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Posted by Frank G 2006-09-10 11:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 and there is a technical problem with the air conditioning." .... ~~fuzes keep blowing when we flip on the interrogation chairs.~~

I blame Lindy England.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 12:01|| 2006-09-10 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: Prisoners interviewed in the presence of their jailers said they were frightened for their safety.

This is really silly. Prisoners whose safety is in danger do not complain to journalists. That can mean a one-way ticket to a shallow grave. People in Saddam's Iraq certainly avoided saying anything bad about the government.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-09-10 12:02|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-09-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Who cares? It's a part of their culture, and it's rather arrogant for us to even show disapproval, right?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-10 12:16|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-10 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Right!

Posted by Hupaimble Snereper9861 2006-09-10 12:20|| 2006-09-10 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I find the squeals of "insurgents" to be guarded by the awful infidel Americans particularly ironic. I have no doubt awful things are happening to people who wantonly massacred other Iraqis, Brits, and Americans. Somehow, I'll still be able to watch a full Sunday of NFL, drink beer and snark RB without shedding a tear. Call me cynical

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-10 12:22|| 2006-09-10 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 "watch a full Sunday of NFL."

You've confirmed my thoughts about you Frank, whahahhaa.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 12:26|| 2006-09-10 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 No one seemed to mind Abu Ghraib much when Saddam ran the place. But I'm sure back then all the prisoners sat around eating cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off.

Posted by SteveS 2006-09-10 12:28|| 2006-09-10 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 :-) fair enuf

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-10 12:31|| 2006-09-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#9 My only objection would be that if they are torturing prisoners, it obviously indicates that their judicial system has an acute shortage of hemp rope.

Were they to match that 27 hung on a bi-weekly basis, in little as a year, their society would be much improved.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-10 12:39|| 2006-09-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Whatever happens in Iraq, no matter who does it, will be reported as bad news for the next 20 years. By contrast nothing that happens in places like Iran, Syria, Cuba or other left wing paradises will ever be news.

So which is worse, the lying or the hypocrisy?

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-09-10 13:04|| 2006-09-10 13:04|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 - do we have to choose?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-10 13:08|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-09-10 13:08|| Front Page Top

#12 and the walls were smeared with filth

Nail your fecses to the wall - live with it.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-09-10 13:22|| 2006-09-10 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 As my dad would of said to the prisioners and the leftwingers about Abu Ghraib, "Becareful what you wish for, you just might get it"
Just looks like Iraq's taking over, just like they all wanted.

Posted by plainslow 2006-09-10 13:29|| 2006-09-10 13:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Similarly, you never hear about the conditions inside Castro's prisons, yet Gitmo is supposed to be another gulag.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-10 13:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-10 13:44|| Front Page Top

#15

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-09-10 13:55|| 2006-09-10 13:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Let's see now. How about lining up a few volunteer prisoners at Abu Ghraib and at Guantanamo and ask who wants to trade places.

Posted by GK 2006-09-10 14:32|| 2006-09-10 14:32|| Front Page Top

#17 Pretty grisly but this kind of thing will take some steam out of the insurgency. Your average terrorist sympathizer or helper isn't going to want any part of "Abu Grab your ..."

Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2006-09-10 14:54|| 2006-09-10 14:54|| Front Page Top

#18 "Abu Ghraib became synonymous with abuse after shocking pictures were published in 2004 showing prisoners being tortured and humiliated, galvanising opposition to the US presence in Iraq."

And this from the Telegraph, not even the Grauniad. That such outrageous, and patently inaccurate, crap can be put into any serious newspaper indicates little hope for western media.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-09-10 14:56|| 2006-09-10 14:56|| Front Page Top

#19 the Telegraph and western MSM in general have perfected the black arts of tortured 'news' to record levels.

Posted by RD 2006-09-10 15:02|| 2006-09-10 15:02|| Front Page Top

#20 Here's another recent gem from the Telegraph 8 Sept 06

The brutal excesses of Saddam Hussein's regime were relived yesterday as Iraq's new government announced that it had hanged 27 prisoners convicted of terror and criminal charges...The government's media office later confirmed that the sentences had been carried out on Wednesday. It also called the prisoners "terrorists", a name normally reserved for insurgents...The death penalty is overwhelmingly supported by the Iraqi public, particularly as punishment for those who commit insurgent atrocities.

The article put no stress on the truly massive numbers of kidnappings and murders happening in Iraq daily.

Posted by Ulelet Uniting8249 2006-09-10 17:22|| 2006-09-10 17:22|| Front Page Top

#21 The tin foil hatters can't hear 'em screams now even if they live next doors while they can hear the same across oceans previouly when AG was under US control.

Posted by Duh! 2006-09-10 17:26|| 2006-09-10 17:26|| Front Page Top

#22 "Abu Ghraib became synonymous with abuse after shocking pictures were published in 2004 showing prisoners being tortured and humiliated, galvanising opposition to the US presence in Iraq."
No, what's happening now is torture and humiliation.

Posted by plainslow 2006-09-10 17:42|| 2006-09-10 17:42|| Front Page Top

#23 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.

"The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better," said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism.

How many of these suddenly pro-American prisoners were the ones screaming about abuse when they were being given panty-hats? How many of them were fabricating abuse stories for the media to make America look bad?

Suffer you d@mn fools and suffer like you never have before! You cannot kill each other fast enough. What do you think would happen if you brought to an end all American oversight of the prison? That every cell would be unlocked and the front gates left standing open?

These wastes of skin truly are beyond salvation. Even if the inmates were running the asylum, the results would be the exact same and this says it all. FOAD, morons.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-10 17:58|| 2006-09-10 17:58|| Front Page Top

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