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U.S. Body Reveals "Torture Hospital" Secrets: Iraqis operating torture chambers for U.S. POWs
FrontPageMagazine.com ^
| Monday, March 31, 2003
| By Brad Hunter
Posted on 03/30/2003 11:37:47 PM PST by JohnHuang2
HORROR SCENE:
A car battery adjacent to a metal bed frame is evidence of Iraqi torturers' work.
- CNBC
At least one of the bodies of the four American soldiers discovered in a shallow grave was "brutalized and mutilated," Pentagon sources revealed yesterday.
The corpses were unearthed in the vicinity of the "hospital" at Nasiriyah where U.S. Marines found evidence that the Iraqis had operated a torture chamber.
Military officials are now investigating whether there is any connection between the hospital and the fate of at least 12 members of a U.S. Army mechanical unit that disappeared last Sunday.
President Bush, in his weekly radio address to the nation, said the latest horrors from Iraq illustrate how evil Saddam Hussein's regime is. 
"The regime continues to rule by terror. Prisoners of war have been brutalized and executed," the commander-in-chief said.
"War criminals will be hunted relentlessly and judged severely. Every atrocity has confirmed the justice and urgency of our cause."
Officials would not immediately confirm whether the dead soldiers were members of the mechanical unit who had taken a wrong turn and were ambushed by Iraqi forces.
Two members of the convoy are known to be dead while another five are listed as prisoners of war.
"We're not sure who it is [in the graves] at this point," said Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
U.S. forensics experts and mortuary personnel are now trying to determine the identities of the dead soldiers. But officials fear the worst.
Inside the hospital, the shocked Marines found bloodied pieces of an American female soldier's uniform. Her name badge and American flag were missing.
Now, investigators believe that the hospital was a den of horror rather than healing and was used by the fanatical Feyidah militia as a staging area and headquarters. Inside, the leathernecks found one room that was equipped with a bed and a car battery, indicating that it was used to electrically torture prisoners.
The five POWs have been paraded on Iraqi television in a sickening violation of the Geneva Conventions on war.
Also shown was twisted footage of five dead American soldiers. Several of the bodies appeared to have execution-style gunshot wounds to their heads.
And it's believed at least some of the missing soldiers were at the hospital.
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aatrocities; carbattery; hospital; humanrights; iraq; iraqifreedom; mias; nasiriyah; pows; torture; warcrimes
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To: MadIvan; dennisw; knighthawk; yonif; Sabertooth; piasa; wardaddy; Squantos
Torture ping.
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:42:50 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: JohnHuang2
"U.S. forensics experts and mortuary personnel are now trying to determine the identities of the dead soldiers"
I shudder to think what our brave soldiers went through.
I hope all the flames of Hell burn those mothers down to nothing but ash.....
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:45:30 PM PST
by
BossLady
(ChIRAQ & Saddam sitting in a tree.....K.I.S.S.I.N.G...)
To: JohnHuang2
Could it be that the Staged Anti-America propaganda we see and hear, is really from anti-Semitic forces who now have an excuse to show themselves again (after 60 years in hiding?)
It looks like the Iraqi military is practicing the horror from the Nazi Age.
Evil Lives
Again
To: JohnHuang2
I hope our boys brought lots of rope. The Saddam Fedayeen can only be dealt with one way, and they are not worth a bullet.
To: Joy Angela
We need to allow the oppressed in Iraq to extract revenge upon the oppressors. That would be the ultimate justice. They will do what the civilized world is afraid to do.
To: Jeff Chandler
We need to allow the oppressed in Iraq to extract revenge upon the oppressors. That would be the ultimate justice. They will do what the civilized world is afraid to do. I have a hunch that is why the death squads are fighting as hard as they are. They know what the locals are likely to do to them when the shoe is on the other foot. I imagine there are a large number of very sharp knives reserved just for Saddam's henchmen.
To: EternalVigilance
So be it.
To: EternalVigilance
Remember the revenge of the Italian partisans in WW2.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:05:08 AM PST
by
MEG33
To: MEG33
Exactly.
To: EternalVigilance
I hope our boys brought lots of rope. The Saddam Fedayeen can only be dealt with one way, and they are not worth a bullet.A slow, sawing beheading with a French cook knife (as was done to Daniel Pearl). That saves bullets. There aren't many trees around for a good hanging anyway.
Considering that my son is enroute to Iraq within the next 7 days, I'm really pissed to see this kind of activity occurring.
11
posted on
03/31/2003 12:11:45 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Joy Angela
Ironically, Bush is called "Hitler" and the American effort to topple Saddam is compared to Nazi expansionism, yet not enough attention is given to the connections between Neo-Nazism and Arab Islamic extremism.
What do they have in common?
1) Goals - destruction of Isreal, Judaism, Jews, and true Christianity (Nazism is not rooted in Christianity as some might say, it is rooted in satanic occultism) followed by, yes, you guessed it, world domination (which ultimately means the destruction of all other religions as well).
2) Enemies - those that would oppose them, namely, the U.S. and Britain.
Both groups have a history of burying (temporarily) the hatchet with their enemies in order to join forces against the greater perceived threat. For better or worse, the U.S. Government has made it clear it is the greatest enemy of both.
Can anyone say Oklahoma City? Remember who initially controlled Iraq in World War II?
To: Myrddin
Considering that my son is enroute to Iraq within the next 7 days, I'm really pissed to see this kind of activity occurring. Wow. I just offered up prayer for him. God's angels are bigger and badder than any demon Saddam's got.
Please let him know there are millions of us that appreciate him greatly, and won't forget what he and his buddies are doing on our behalf.
You and your family have my prayers as well.
EV
To: norcalvet
Your observations about the connections and similarities between fascism and Islamo-fascism are spot on.
To: EternalVigilance
My wife echoed the sentiments of many other FReeper parents this afternoon. She is proud and terrified. At this stage of the game, all we can do is be supportive and hope he comes home.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:41:09 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
Please keep us updated on how he's doing, so we can remember to keep him in prayer.
To: JohnHuang2
Were coming Saddam Sarandon
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:54:47 AM PST
by
Kay Soze
(France is a terrorist nation - "The country where the worms live above ground")
To: Joy Angela
It looks like the Iraqi military is practicing the horror from the Nazi Age. The regime of Saddam Hussein, together with the UN that protected it and the global Left that shills for it, is the Fourth Reich.
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posted on
03/31/2003 1:56:35 AM PST
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: norcalvet
Ironically, Bush is called "Hitler" and the American effort to topple Saddam is compared to Nazi expansionism Because leftists, with their upside down moral compasses, get everything backward. They call evil good and good evil. They see the good guy as the bad guy and the bad guy as the good guy. Whenever they hurl an accusation at someone, rest assured that it actually applies to whomever they're defending.
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posted on
03/31/2003 2:01:41 AM PST
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: BossLady
I am thinking the worse of this situation......even though no death to any of our soldiers is acceptable, I hope these bodies were not of the POW's that were paraded on tv....
it seems to me that it would be fairly easy to identify a black women's body....
...and the stinking leftist/fascist sit there burning our flag.....
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posted on
03/31/2003 2:05:09 AM PST
by
cherry
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