**Secret Iraqi Police Files Found**

CBS News ^ | April 12, 2003 | Lara Logan

[ewing]

United States Marines have uncovered an underground vault containing the detailed files of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

Under the Headquarters of the Special Security Organization, run by Saddams most rusted son Qusay, the Marines found a massive complex of offices over an area the size of two football fields, littered with millions of documents-detailed records that stretch back more than three decades.

In just one room were files for a million souls-their pictures, personal details, and entire history recorded in minute chilling detail, reports CBS News correspondant Lars Logan.

The complex was targeted for coalition planes on the first night of bombing.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Not a peep about this from the Clinton News Network I am sure..

You are no better than CNN if you only give us a partial post.

[Exeter]

(I posted the following comment on 2/14/03, and now with the discovery of these files now is the time to seriously consider using them...)

What I'd like to see after Saddam and his offspring are deposed is for someone in the Bush administration to go through the records of the arrests, tortures, rapes, murders, etc. of Iraqi citizens and the dates on which these atrocities occurred. Once these have been compiled I'd then want Pres. Bush make a special speech and parallel what was said by the opposition on the same day an act of depravity was committed by Saddam and his jackal sons. For example, "On the same day that Jacques Chirac said France would veto any UN resolution to use military force against the Hussein regime, "citizen X" was being lowered into an acid bath for criticizing Hussein's rule. On the same day Barbra Striesand compared me to Hitler for wanting to remove Hussein his son Odai seized "female citizen Y", raped her repeatedly, murdered her and then disposed of her body", and so forth. Just as the German citizens living near the World War II death camps were made to walk through the camps and forced to see what their feigned ignorance was responsible for, likewise I want these spineless reptiles both here at home and in other countries to know on a personal level the pain and suffering their self-indulgent pacifism and conspiring with Saddam has perpetuated...

[ex-Texan]

MEGA *BUMP* !

France, Russia and Germany will be saying "Don't know nothing about it ..." and crawling into their hidey holes by tomorrow morning. Full cover-up-in-fetal position mode.

[Viiraxe]

Hell yeah. That's a great idea. You should mail that idea to them.

[ewing]

The new Vanity Fair Magazine has a good profile on Saddams son and his rapes of 12 year old schoolgirls that he selects from poor neighborhoods.

[mathluv]

That is an interesting idea, and I would like to see/hear it. Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen - not from the President. However, it could come from FR.

[poet]

"I hope this is confirmed."

So do I. Evidently, from the posts I've read, saying it is equivalent to making it so.

FReegards

[Enterprise]

I'd put Sean Penn in here too. Maybe something about while he was busy visiting the children in the hospital, Saddam's bullies were busy brutalizing other children who wouldn't join the Ba'ath party.

[ellery]

bttt

[litany_of_lies]

If the Administration won't, any number of conservative writers will (Malkin, Coulter, Cal Thomas, etc.), especially if you do the legwork and ask not to be credited for it (most of them will probably give you credit anyway).

[whadizit]

Whoo-wee!! I bet Putin and Sh-Iraq are shaking in their jack-boots. It is my hope that our gov't does not cover up info. to protect ANYONE or any COUNTRY!! It is time for all these illegal relationships to be uncovered and let the chips fall where they may.

[whadizit]

"...12 year old schoolgirls..."

Have you heard that Uday would pour honey over any woman that disappointed him and let wild dogs tear her to pieces?

[litany_of_lies]

FULL ARTICLE (copy and paste commands are your friends):

(CBS) U.S. Marines have uncovered an underground vault containing the detailed files of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

Under the headquarters of the Special Security Organization, run by Saddam's most trusted son, Qusay, the Marines found a massive complex of offices over an area the size of two football fields, littered with millions of documents — detailed records that stretch back more than three decades.

In just one room were files for a million souls — their pictures, personal details, and entire history recorded in minute, chilling detail, reports CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan.

The complex was targeted by coalition planes on the first night of bombing. A missile struck the prison, the place where people who dared criticize the regime often ended up, many never seen or heard of again.

Now, with Marines in control, people want answers. Angry families descended on the neighboring intelligence headquarters, searching for any trace of loved ones.

"A lot of families in the surrounding area had family members who were in here," said Greg Clancy, First Marines. "One of them I'd heard hasn't seen their relative in six years but the last place they knew that they were in was this prison."

But Saddam's faithful fled before us forces arrived. They left no prisoners behind.

In its 2002 annual report, the human rights organization Amnesty International said that Iraq employed systemic torture.

"Common methods of physical torture included electric shocks or cigarette burns to various parts of the body, pulling out of fingernails, rape, long periods of suspension by the limbs from either a rotating fan in the ceiling or from a horizontal pole, beating with cables, hosepipe or metal rods, and falaqa (beating on the soles of the feet)," the report read.

"In addition, detainees were threatened with rape and subjected to mock execution. They were placed in cells where they could hear the screams of others being tortured and were deliberately deprived of sleep."

[LurkedLongEnough]

The file on Dan Rather might be interesting.

[Happy2BMe]

In just one room were files for a million souls-their pictures, personal details, and entire history recorded in minute chilling detail, reports CBS News correspondant Lars Logan.

Does this mean Dan Rather will get a big raise?

The TRUTH is coming out - shame on Hollywood! Shame on the Democrats! Shame on the communists, socialists, anti-American worms!

[litany_of_lies]

BTW, it's LARA Logan (female, British accent), who has from time to time been whining about civilian casualties and the looting, and has been rather subdued about coalition successe in her hourly reports on CBS Radio.

If this doesn't shake her out of her condescending, arrogant comfort zone, nothing will.

[angkor]

Gee, they found only 19,000 case files from the Pol Pot regime.

[Busywhiskers]

It would be interesting to see what is in Scott Ritter's and Hans Blix's files.

[RaceBannon]

Thats cause most of the Khmer Rouge weren't old enough to write when they shot the adults.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I posted the following comment on 2/14/03, and now with the discovery of these files now is the time to seriously consider using them...)

What I'd like to see after Saddam and his offspring are deposed is for someone in the Bush administration to go through the records of the arrests, tortures, rapes, murders, etc. of Iraqi citizens and the dates on which these atrocities occurred. Once these have been compiled I'd then want Pres. Bush make a special speech and parallel what was said by the opposition on the same day an act of depravity was committed by Saddam and his jackal sons. ..."

In a similar vein,I have said that it should be revealed, when all is said and done militarily, the exact nature of the briefings Congress received, so we can look back and see which Democrats came to the mics and said- " I have seen nothing in these briefings that would justify war,the case hasn't been made,etc".I want the world to know exactly what the Democrats consider " nothing."