Posted on 05/17/2004 2:09:24 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
May 17, 2004 -- THE tape was shocking. In the medical clinic at Abu Ghraib prison, nine Baghdad merchants were shown undergoing surgery to remove their healthy right hands on the orders of Saddam Hussein.
It wasn't hard to track the men shown in the video. The incident was well known in Baghdad and the tape had been widely circulated to terrorize other merchants who might dare to deal in foreign currency.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Imagine if you will a world in which the evil have nobody to expose them. It is 1945, and the horrors of Hitler's Final Solution have been laid bare before the world. But the world will never know of the tortures, the medical experiments, the cruelties and the deaths promulgated in the NAZI death camps, because the news media have instead as their agenda the destruction and humiliation of the American administration and their British counterparts.
Fiction? We are living it today.
These men were taken to a real Texas ranch this past week.
They were given Cowboy hats, rode horses and have been eating Texas barbeque.
It was a really nice story. They were having a ball.
"These men were taken to a real Texas ranch this past week."
At first I thought you were saying that Bush's ranch isn't a real ranch. Need coffee.
Sounds like a great documentary for Front Line on PBS. But the line would be assuredly closed in this instance.
I can see how that might have sounded a little bit wrong.
"Real Texas ranch" was the way one of the Iraqis described it.
I wish I could find that article, they had some cute things to say.
God willing. Good is coming in Iraq."
And that "good" is in the form of the United States military.
INTREP - This is far more important news than the "prisoner abuse" coverage
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And Saddam cutting off hands was far from the worst of his torments for "his" people.
Thanks for posting this.
Laura Ingraham show interviewed the surgeon who did this work. A lot of Americans did a very good deed trying to give back to these Baghdad Merchants something Saddam took away horribly.
"The gruesome footage of their amputations is carefully presented in increasingly shocking increments as the documentary unfolds. In the final scene, a severed hand is placed on a table with forceps. "Is this the hand that threatened Saddam?" asks Basm Al Fadhly as he watched the tape of his hand being cut for the first time. "The Coalition doesn't need to find weapons of mass destruction to justify the war. Saddam killed our children without weapons of mass destruction. They are embedded in his brain."
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