Detainees Claim Being Caged With Lions

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | November 15, 2005 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Iraqi businessmen, who were imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, claimed Monday that American soldiers threw them into a cage of lions in a Baghdad palace, as part of a terrifying interrogation in 2003.

"They took me behind the cage, they were screaming at me, scaring me and beating me a lot,'' Thahe Mohammed Sabbar said in an interview. "One of the soldiers would open the door, and two soldiers would push me in. The lions came running toward me and they pulled me out and shut the door. I completely lost consciousness.''

Army spokesman Paul Boyce said he has never heard of lions being used in any detainee operations and it has never come up in any of the more than 400 investigations into detainee abuse conducted by the military over the past three years.

"We take every allegation of detainee abuse seriously,'' Boyce said. "But it does seem unusual that this is now coming out for the very first time after three years of investigations.''

Sabbar, 37, and Sherzad Kamal Khalid, 35, are in the United States this week to talk about the lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First filed on their behalf against Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other military officials.

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[Libertas3188]

Lions and Tigers oh my...

I would prefer they be caged with Pigs.

[injin]

do it right...don't just threaten.....

[The Red Zone]

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

If you can't attack mosques being used as bunkers . . .

if you can't use scare tactics . . .

if you can't use torure and humiliation . . .

then, you have no busines going to war with enemies who chop heads off over the Internet.

Just lay down and let the enemies spit on you before they decapitate you, and really, really consider getting out of the "war business". Simply be French-like and write various drafts of surrender.

[CrawDaddyCA]

And of course the MSM will report this BS as 'factual' and use it to gleefully bash our military.

(CrawDaddy shaking his head in disgust)

[The Red Zone]

A little Photoshopping, and we could show these Mooses any number of their comrades getting "beheaded."

[The Red Zone]

A little circus music?

[NavVet]

If he's telling the truth, which I seriously doubt, then he could consider himself lucky. The former residents wouldn't have pulled him out of the cage.

[maggief]

[ChristianDefender]

LOL..

[Rebelbase]

According to what the left says, we are only supposed to give terrorists a "good talking to" before we release them on their promise to behave.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Well they should watch "Saving Private Ryan" to see what happens when you follow that French-like approach.

[The Red Zone]

ACLU lead counsel Lucas Guttentag said the lion cage was not mentioned in the initial legal filing because lawyers considered that part of the charges of mock executions, which would later be detailed. He said media reports in summer 2003 documented that American soldiers had access to the lions.

Call the ASPCA; that was very cruel to those lions to keep plopping Khalid and Sabbar before them.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Come on, this is unbelievable that they would even print this.

These idiots are putting crap out now, that is cartoon
like. There has to be some accountability put on these
news outlets.


PS: we are supposed to believe another ridiculous story
from Baghdad? I sure don't

[geopyg]

"....are in the United States this week to talk about the lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First filed...."

Something tells me this never happened to ol' Saddam. Why the H&*# would we be so mean and cruel and devious, but then let them go? Seems to me that if you were this mean and cruel and devious you would let the lions eat them after a few times of the game and you got some information. Then feed the lion s*&% to the pigs.

The hypocrisy (not the exact word I want to use) is unbelievable. They are saying how evil and corrupt we are - then use our own system to say it!!??

[WasDougsLamb]

The lions came running toward me


---sounds scarey!

[KamperKen]

Poor lions! Is the ASPCA on this one yet?

[DeaconRed]

THE LIBS HAVE WON! ! ! !
We can't spank our kids anymore
We can't beat the hell out of the enemy
We Have LOST

[kb2614]

Two Iraqi businessmen, who were imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, claimed Monday that American soldiers threw them into a cage of lions in a Baghdad palace, as part of a terrifying interrogation in 2003.

Oh please, it was the Detroit Lions. There nothing to fear.

:-)

If this is from the UK Guardian, I wouldn't take much stock in what those drooling leftists have to say.