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| Iraqi Abuse Victim: I Want to Live in America |
| 2004-05-07 |
| Quelle surprise He claims the torture he suffered at the hands of his American military jailers at Baghdad’s al Ghraib prison was unspeakably brutal, unconscionably inhumane; so incredibly humiliating that he cannot think of moving back to his old neighborhood in Nasiriya. So instead, Hayder Sabbar Abd says he may be forced to relocate to an entirely new country - none other than the homeland of his torturers, the good old USA. Mr. Abd alleges that in Nov. 2003, U.S. jail guards beat him, stripped him naked, forced him to pile on top of other naked inmates, then posed him in positions to simulate oral sex. It was a nightly ritual that began after a prison riot in which he participated. Then, inexplicably, the excruciating torture sessions stopped. While some of his fellow Iraqis grouse that they preferred life under Saddam Hussein, Abd says that America should "pay compensation" to the prison torture victims. "He said he felt he needed to move out of Iraq," reported the New York Times on Wednesday. "Despite it all, he said he would not refuse an offer to move to America." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Nah, Tresho. I really don't think it's identification with the aggressor. He doesn't want to hang out with his abusers, or protect them. He wants to come to a country where (even though he was a prisoner) the guys and gals that did this to him are "toast." |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-05-07 9:04:41 PM |
| #10 You've heard of the Stockholm Syndrome? This is an example of the Abu Ghraib Syndrome. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2004-05-07 8:48:03 PM |
| #9 Wants to be relocated in the Castro (in SF). |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-05-07 4:19:11 PM |
| #8 You all are missing the point. He understands we have an enviable civilization where he won't have to play the honor/shame game. He know that these were a few bad soldiers, who don't represent this great country -- and he'd like to live here. I say, let him. |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-05-07 2:39:32 PM |
| #7 He found out he can have a lucrative career in homeerotic porn. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-05-07 1:11:47 PM |
| #6 "Despite it all, he said he would not refuse an offer to move to America." He knows our immigration laws are never enforced. We may find at some later time he came across the border from Mexico. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-07 11:41:54 AM |
| #5 no my guess is he enjoyed every bit of it and now wants more. |
| Posted by: sakattack 2004-05-07 11:17:21 AM |
| #4 Does he have any proof that he was one of the 'abused' victims? I mean he still has his eyes -- didn't we gorge them out like Saddam would have done? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-07 10:10:47 AM |
| #3 I guess he hasn't heard about our NASCAR races where we randomly pick Arabs from the crowd and use them as bumpers. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-05-07 9:41:45 AM |
| #2 I think he's got a good chance of getting some compensation if he's one of those in the photos. Anyone agree? |
| Posted by: BruceBruce 2004-05-07 9:08:02 AM |
| #1 No, I don't think you'd want to come here. We're a nation of torturers and perverts. You're much better off in Nasiriya, or better yet, one of the many holy cities in Iraq... |
| Posted by: RMcLeod 2004-05-07 6:14:57 AM |