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Iraqi Prisoner Details Abuse by Americans
Washington Times ^
| 5/02/04
| AP
Posted on 05/02/2004 2:18:48 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraqipow
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:18:49 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
funny how the ap gets first person accounts of ANY enemy of the U.S.A. but can't get any facts correct.
Facts? What a facts?
2
posted on
05/02/2004 2:21:50 PM PDT
by
steplock
(http://www.gohotsprings.com)
To: kattracks
Al-Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam's regime, he was electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back.
"But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said. "Shoot me here," he added, pointing between his eyes, "but don't do this to us."
Duh, this is starting to sound like a big nothing. Humiliating terrorists to get info out of them isn't torture.
3
posted on
05/02/2004 2:22:44 PM PDT
by
adam_az
(Call your State Republican Party office and VOLUNTEER!!!!)
To: kattracks
Why did we let this little shi-ite out of prison?
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:22:54 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: kattracks
Oh, for crying out loud. They were strip searched like every other prisoner.
What a bunch of Islamoweinies they are.
5
posted on
05/02/2004 2:23:17 PM PDT
by
annyokie
(There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
To: kattracks
He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards Plastic shredder feet first is better?
To: annyokie
I'd say the REAL torture was being a GI in the presence of a bunch of stinky, nekkid Ar-abs.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:27:44 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........"I looked out and saw rifles everywhere. That's when I felt safe." .........)
To: EggsAckley
No lie! LOL
How've you been? I haven't talked to you for a while.
8
posted on
05/02/2004 2:29:37 PM PDT
by
annyokie
(There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
To: steplock
Uh - it's possible that THIS person's story is one of simply being searched. Wouldn't a strip search be sorta mandatory?
The weakness of this man's story doesn't lessen the severity of the charges leveled in the New Yorker story or the pictures released by CBS. These pictures do not appear to be strip searches, but prison guards getting their jollies at the expense of those in their custody. If reality mathces appearances, it's wrong, wrong, wrong. Professional soldiers do not behave this way.
To: kattracks
More Islamic psychobabble.... But maybe there's a silver lining here. Can we get our techies hard at work on a weapon that will vaporize clothing?
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:31:21 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(GD is against Amalek for all generations)
To: adam_az
Duh, this is starting to sound like a big nothing. Humiliating terrorists to get info out of them isn't torture. "Waaaah! They looked at my BUM, when I really wanted to be beaten!!"
These people are peculiar.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:33:19 PM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
To: EggsAckley
I am not pleased at all with the picture taking,abuse,or the glee shown,but stating his dreadful torture under Saddam was far less serious than nudity is absurd.The arabs love hyperbole.
12
posted on
05/02/2004 2:35:02 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: kattracks
Sounds to me like a standard prison strip-search, of the kind that happens in every prison in the U.S.
13
posted on
05/02/2004 2:35:21 PM PDT
by
saquin
To: kattracks; All
[SNIP]
Now the 30-year-old, who used to work in a fabric shop, is a die-hard fighter in the al-Mahdi Army, the fanatic militia of a Shiite Muslim cleric who has vowed to take on the Americans.
[SNIP]
Al-Shweiri's account could not be independently verified.
[SNIP]
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:35:46 PM PDT
by
Fedora
To: MEG33
The arabs love hyperbole....... and gossip. Loony tune gossip and rumor mongering. Much more gossip than in small town America.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:37:22 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(GD is against Amalek for all generations)
To: kattracks
Al-Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam's regime, he was electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back. "But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said.
"Al-Shweiri, who was arrested by the Americans in October, said he was asked to take off his clothes only once and for about 15 minutes. "
This guy is a pathetic liar!!! I'll bet $10,000 that if given a real choice between having to stand naked for 15 minutes or getting electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back, etc., he'd take the 15 minutes EVERY TIME.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:37:27 PM PDT
by
AmericaUnited
(It's time someone says the emperor has no clothes.)
To: jocon307
Iraqi Dhia al-Shweiri, 30, gestures as he talks in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, May 2, 2004, after spending several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. (AP Photo/Shaz Faramarzi)
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:39:47 PM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: bin2baghdad
The weakness of this man's story doesn't lessen the severity of the charges leveled in the New Yorker story or the pictures released by CBS.No, it doesn't, but it does make one wonder how factual the reports of a "pattern of torture" are. Especially coming from Amnesty International, and former detainees such as the one quoted in this story.
Notice the title calls what was probably a routine strip search "abuse".
To: kattracks
The author of the AP piece is our old friend, Scheherezade Faramarzi, she of a thousand phony Arabian tales.
19
posted on
05/02/2004 2:47:15 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Kristen Breitweiser didn't want to learn how to land the 9/11 Commission; she only wanted to steer)
To: kattracks
<>"They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman," al-Shweiri said.
Should dress him in a Burka and show him what its really like!
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:47:32 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(John Kerry = "You mean I can get a Purple Heart for cutting myself shaving?")
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