Posted on 05/21/2004 7:34:24 AM PDT by kattracks
The U.S. backed Arab-language news network Al Hurra broadcast video on Wednesday depicting grisly acts of torture on Iraqi citizens ordered by Saddam Hussein. But so far at least, the shocking new video remains embargoed by U.S. media outlets.The Washington Post admitted on Friday that it was in possession of some of the gruesome torture images - but did not publish them in a report on the video buried on Page A21. Instead, Post editors decided to front-page stale images of U.S. abuse of suspected terrorists held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
"The [Hussein torture] video reached news outlets," the paper explained, "as senior spokesmen for the Bush administration began to express frustration that the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops had overshadowed well-documented human rights horrors of the Hussein era."
In video yet to be broadcast by any U.S. outlet, Hussein torture victims are shown being flogged and having fingers chopped off. One detainee is filmed as he is thrown from a roof, another beheaded by a sword-weilding member of Saddam's elite Fedayeen unit.
According to the Post, video of the beheading shows a man placing the severed head on the victim's prone body. Another scene shows a man's tongue being cut out.
As NewsMax.com reported on Sunday, other gruesome images from the embargoed video include scenes of Kurdish detainees being castrated and babies being gassed to death.
During the beheading, the executioner reportedly sings "Happy Birthday, Saddam."
Al Hurra news director Mouafac Harb told the Post that he obtained the new torture video on Monday and deemed the images both authentic and newsworthy.
"I was approached with a tape, which I had not seen before," he explained. "I had not seen on the popular Arabic satellite channels any program like this."
If the media wants to try and channel the news, then we need to make the media's manipulations a story in its own right.
Laura Ingrham interviewed this fellow North (??) on his documentary about the surgical removal of people's hand under Saddam - chilling stuff.
He cannot get distribution for it. Even Fox News will not cover the story.
So they now have their own "October Surprise" if Kerry's Krew doesn't produce one.
Anyone has links? I want to show this to everyone...
Let me rephrase, they have it, and I bet they'll somehow insinuate this is the Bush admin... with only a day or 2 before the election.
Why doesn't he put it on the internet? Or is it about getting $$$ for it?
The feelings of Sodom's victims don't count...Sodom->the media's darling posterboy of heroic resistance to the evil US!
My liberal as the day is long cousin-in-law was a journalist and is trying to get a job with the Philly Inquirer or some such rag. She catches all my grief. I'll certainly vent at her over this. : )
~~obvious sarcasm off~~
Reminds me of ol' danny rather asking saddam to "speak a little english for me".
Would like to hear her response. I'm always amused by the liberal spin.
CNN claimed that they buried this kind of stuff so that Saddam wouldn't throw them out of Iraq. What's their excuse today?
The title is "Remembering Saddam". He said it would be shown in a private screening to journalists in DC sometime in the next 2 weeks, maybe there is some information on the web about it. Yes, he is looking for a distribution deal and some $$$s I am sure.
Great idea...except who'll publish/broadcast the story? That's been the problem for 50 years -- the Left controls at least 90% of all media in the U.S. and gets taxpayer subsidies to broadcast left-wing propaganda. Fox News Channel is small and under attack as 'biased' because it tries to present both sides of the issues. For years I've felt like I live in an Alice in Wonderland world with Hillary as the Red Queen and nothing makes sense.
this is it right here:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1135431/posts
Anyone notice that the American guards from Abu Grahib are being prosecuted and tossed in jail whereas Saddam's torturers are still at it even while Saddam sits in the hoosegow?
"And who's Saddam, is he an abused prisoner?"
WAY too much to hope for. At least the Iraqi's will execute him.
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