Report: Iraq torture chamber found

CNN ^ | Wednesday, April 2, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

ABU AL KHASIB, Iraq (CNN) -- A torture chamber equipped with hooks hanging from ceilings and an on-site electrocution room has been found in the basement of an Iraqi police station, an embedded reporter with the BBC reports.

The reporter said the British Royal Marines from Alpha Company 40 Commando entered the facility -- home to Saddam Hussein's dreaded internal security police -- looking for clues about local militia groups.

[Tax-chick]

Not lately :-). Plenty of time to watch Fox News!

[Indy Pendance]

I agree, as we discover more and more atrocities it will be harder and harder for the left to accept these things. I also agree, our military will not be received as the vets from Vietnam. In history, Saddam Hussein will be remembered with the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot.

[Tax-chick]

My dad is a Vietnam vet (3 tours) and my brother is Out There somewhere classified in this mess.

Our soldiers come first! The news media and the "peace" demonstrators have no excuse.

[Maelstrom]

Everyone here is wishing it were possible to end the terrorist + WMD threat Saddamn represents without any casualties at all.

Stories like this one are very stressful for everyone with the ability to comprehend the absolute horror the citizens of Iraq live with daily.

It makes us all a bit...snipish...and short-tempered. Mostly, because we care about Iraqis too.

Good Luck

[3D-JOY]

That card carrying suggestion was the first thing that went through my mind too!

NO WAY!!

[3D-JOY]

Do people still remember to send gifts after all this time.

Things do wear out!

[Tax-chick]

Do people still remember to send gifts after all this time.

Yes, they do. Cute baby things don't cost much at Wal-Mart or Target, and everyone likes an excuse to buy them. We do have a few items that are going on their 8th baby, because they were my cousins' first!

Thanks for your encouragement. Pray that all our soldiers come home safely to their children!

Xy

[alexandria]

OK. I get the ID thing but does anyone know what is in tbe box (and in the soldiers hand) in the top picture?

[admiralsn]

As far as I am concerned, we have already been vindicated by the proof of the way in which the citizens of Iraq have been treated by the regime- using them as human shields, not to mention the torture and executions. And I am only talking of since the war began. Liberals want proof of WMD to prove that Saddam is a baddie. What idiots.

[TheLion]

We already found banned weapons....but that won't be enough. We'll find WMD and they will come up with an excuse. They really don't like to lose to Republicans....probably the guts of the problem.

[Steve Eisenberg]

The stories like this, soon to start coming out of Iraq in volume, about the history of Saddam's brutal regime is going to have profound impact on the world and its anti-America stance.

I hope you are right. However, there are several published biographies of Saddam and they all repeat the incredible stories -- that he killed his 5th grade teacher, in 5th grade, that he has procurers kidnap girls from villages for a night of pleasure, that he has the children of folks who speak out against him killed in front of them . . . And from the first day of the war, there have been repeated stories in which one interviewed Iraqi after another tells of relatives killed in just the past few years. Add it up, and obviously more Iraqis are murdered each day by the Saddamites than are possibly being killed by our errant bombs. And yet this has had zero impact on anti-Americanism, at least outside the English speaking countries. Anti-Americanism may modereately decrease after the war because the world (by a small margin) likes a winner, but few will admit that they misjudged right and wrong.

[Palladin]

What a great picture!

[whadizit]

Torture in all those middle eastern countries is probably not shocking to them.

[Allan]

Bump

[Cacique]

Related story posted yesterday here.

[gcruse]

Your article seems to have been from a Daily Mirror reporter. Peter Arnett may not fit in there as well as he thinks.

[gcruse]

"What will they say when we open the dungeons and the gulagi?"

I don't know what they will say because I don't trust the US press to be in the least up front about any of this.   They think we are a nation of weak-stomached adolescents who need our food prechewed.  They may be right.  Thank Zeus for the internet and the British press.

[exDemMom]

After hearing this, I wonder what all the anti-war protestors are thinking when they protested the removal of the beast Saddam.

They were thinking "wouldn't it be nice if we could use this war to provoke a violent revolution in America and install a communist government with us in charge." The protests are not, and have never been, anti-war.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I've copied your post and sent it out to my friends and relatives....perhaps they'll do the same.

The disgust I feel and the sadness for these people is beyond words.

Payday WILL come for these evil people.

[VOA]

OKSooner, my recollection of Hoyt Axton's Pizza Hut commercial is the same as yours.

The inclusion of the word "cultural" surely elicited about a million chuckles from
Okies across the spectrum...and anyone from our border states!

I should know...I stuffed down too many slices of the deep-dish with pepperoni, Italian
sausage and mushroom.

As for Hoyt...may he rest in peace. I'm afraid those years of dissipation
(and maybe too much Pizza Hut pizza) finally caught up to him.
But he was a good 'ole boy who knew how to "live large".