[steplock]

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?

[adam_az]

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.

[jocon307]

Why did we let this little shi-ite out of prison?

[annyokie]

Oh, for crying out loud. They were strip searched like every other prisoner.

What a bunch of Islamoweinies they are.

[In_25_words_or_less]

He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards

Plastic shredder feet first is better?

[dennisw]

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?

[saquin]

Sounds to me like a standard prison strip-search, of the kind that happens in every prison in the U.S.

[Fedora]

[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]

[AmericaUnited]

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.

[an amused spectator]

The author of the AP piece is our old friend, Scheherezade Faramarzi, she of a thousand phony Arabian tales.

[Bommer]

<>"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!

[an amused spectator]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22%22SCHEHEREZADE+FARAMARZI%22+and+%22free+republic%22%22

[#1CTYankee]

"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.

I feel so bad for him, sounds like a trouble maker to me.
Black Jack had it right, take care of them once and let the others know how we did it.

[EGPWS]

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."

Keeerist!

Those electrodes apparently screwed up his ability to make comparison between horror and humiliation and "the Slimes" reporting it with a conveyance of a parallel between the two is....well that I guess is where the "slimes" depiction comes from.

[blueminnesota]

"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.

He lost all my damn sympathy right there.

[oceanview]

those sniper team going around killing some of Sadr's militiamen - I'd send them this guys picture right away, that would send a message if he shows up dead after giving this interview. time to start playing some hardball with these animals.

[Joe 6-pack]

"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..."

Shut up and get me another beer.

[dandi]

What I can't figure is these idjits tolerated Saddam for what, 30 years with no big uprisings except for that half-hearted one right after Gulf War I (with the exception of the brave Kurds possibly)? But their liberators have been there for one lousy year with well-known plans to turn over sovereignity to them, and they're anxious to fight to the death to get them out RIGHT NOW. Why weren't they that dedicated and brave when S.H. was in power? It's simple: You've got tinhorn despots like al-Sadr and former Saddam thugs that see an opening for a power grab and propagandize their way into the simple minds of guys like this. They use the Viet Nam model (no I'm not saying that Iraq is Viet Nam) of letting the lefty wack-jobs over here with their lies and distortions gradually turn public opinion against the war and the administration. They're hoping the U.S. will continue with "cease-fires" and "talks" and all the while keep up their low-intensity guerrilla-style tactics that cause the American casualties to keep trickling in in an attemp to sway the American public's psyche. With plenty of gullible cannon fodder to sacrifice like the guy in this story they figure they can just wait us out. That's why we need to come down HARD AND DECISIVELY on these creeps to put an end to it. I hate war and death as much as anyone but this piecemeal crap is just going to cause more deaths in the long run. No war to my knowlege has ever been won by "measured" or "proportional" responses. Wars are won by OVERWHELMING responses. Sure, the "Arab street" would get their panties in a bunch over it initially, but after peace and prosperity are established, the ones with half a brain will see it was just. The other hardcore American haters are going be against us no matter what anyway.

[norcalvet]

This guy says he prefers beatings and electrocution to an injured ego.

The insurgents in Fallujah, instead of celebrating peace and the end of bloodshed, called Americans cowards for leaving without continuing the fight.

Why not fulfill their wishes? Give them what they want. Isn't that what the U.N., the French, and Democrats would suggest?

They truly want to die for their cause. Why shouldn't we help arrange that for them?

People who would prefer to die a horrible death than be treated in the manner in which they treat their own women, people who say they follow a "religion of peace" and fire on Marines and soldiers from their religious sanctuaries, who decry American "cruelty" while killing, burning, or torturing (in the literal, bloody, physical sense) with glee, hold a radically different perspective than most of the western world. Is it reasonable to think a compromise can be reached with such people? A compromise we are willing to accept?

I do not yet accept that this warped point of view is held by anything but the minority of people in Iraq. Unfortunately, the most brash and loud are the ones quoted by the press.

[BenLurkin]

" . . . this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman," al-Shweiri said."

Because you guys degrade women as part of your culture, Mr. al-Shweri