Posted on 12/08/2001 1:28:23 PM PST by knak
London - An opposition group confirmed yesterday that fifteen prisoners were executed on August 10, 2001 by placing them inside a specially designed gas chamber, Nazi-style, and then releasing a poisonous gas through vents, inside the presidential diwan.
The Centre for Human Rights in the Iraqi Communist Party said in a statement sent to Kuna the horrific crime was committed under direct supervision of Qusay, the younger son of the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein.
The victims were packed inside the room, before releasing the gas. They were dead within 27 seconds. Their bodies were left there for one hour until the gas was extracted through a special vent, it added.
This barbaric crime was filmed on video and the film was shown to Qusay Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi regime is continuing its notorious "prison clean-up" campaign which has so far claimed more than 3,000 prisoners and detainees, the opposition group concluded.
On another front, 10 leading members of Congress have urged President George W. Bush to make Iraq the next target in the US war on terrorism, saying it has reinvigorated its weapons programmes in the three years since UN inspectors left.
"As we work to clean up Afghanistan, it is imperative that we plan to eliminate the threat from Iraq," said the letter, dated yesterday.
"This December will mark three years since United Nations inspectors last visited Iraq. There is no doubt that since that time, Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programmes." Among those signing the letter were Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jesse Helms, former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and former Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
The letter is the latest in a string of calls for a renewed offensive against Iraq and President Saddam Hussein once the Afghanistan campaign ends.
The US launched its war on Afghanistan after its ruling Taleban refused to give up Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network, blamed for the Sept. 11 attack on the United States that killed nearly 4,000 people.
Sen. Helms acknowledged in a speech on Wednesday that the United States does not know if Saddam was directly involved with the Sept. 11 attacks. Still, he said, "there is a mountain of evidence linking him to international terrorism generally and to bin Laden's terrorist network specifically." In their letter, the lawmakers said international sanctions levied against Iraq are riddled with loopholes and illegal oil sales could not be contained by the administration.
"Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programmes continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status," the letter said, adding: "We believe we must directly confront Saddam, sooner rather than later.
"The threat from Iraq is real, and it cannot be permanently contained," the letter said.
UN inspectors, who had been working since the 1991 Gulf War to ensure Baghdad did not develop weapons of mass destruction, left Iraq in December 1998.
The lawmakers also urged support for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), saying the United States had learned from Afghanistan the importance of working effectively with local opposition on the ground.
A leader of the INC, Ahmed Chalabi, met on Thursday with the Republican policy conference on Capitol Hill.
Bush recently demanded that Saddam allow weapons inspections to resume and said he would "find out" the consequences if he refused.
But Secretary of State Colin Powell told Nato ally Turkey on Wednesday that the United States had no immediate plans to extend its war on terrorism to Iraq. -- Agencies
Who? Are these people our friends now? If so, then this "war on terrorism" must have a really strange agenda at heart.
So Iraq is cleaning up their prisons. Is this really our busienss? Heck, killing people in "27 seconds" is rather humane. I don't care if it's compared to the NAZIS -- the Nazis used their gas chambers for freakish social activism.
Heck, I wouldn't object to clearing out our prisons with, say, a big gas chamber in each state. Let's just gas everyone in for a felony and clean out those places once and for all. (It's not social engineering like the Nazis, it's just really strict justice...)
Mark W.
Why not just gas everyone with political beliefs that are different from your own while you are at it? Afterall, we all know that liberals make dangerous policies which harm us. Obviously if these trouble makers were all killed it would make easier for the rest of "us". (/sarcasm)
Seriously, you (and people who think like you) are reason #5256 I'll never give up my firearms. -FMCDH
Thanks for the interesting reply. Odd, though, that I spoke of people in for felony offenses and you compared that to people who think differently. Do you regard having different opinions from _you_ as a felony offense?
[shrugs] Yes, it's good that you're keeping your guns. But you don't have much to fear from me. The violent and freakish scum that our "justice" system keeps alive and keeps releasing, however, are like a disease that the wind is blowing your way...
Mark W.
Anyway my point is: Without know what the evil saddam has these people in jail for it isn't right to just say ok to gassing thousands of people every year.
here's a link for you anyway. Executioner tells of mass slaughter in Saddam's jails Sunday- December 3, 2000
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