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Posted on 04/13/2003 9:32:49 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Edited on 04/13/2003 9:44:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NASIRIYAH, Iraq Sheik Lami Abbas Ajali looked around at the small cell where he spent several bleak weeks of his life and recounted the torture: How he was hit, prodded, had his eyelids pulled back, electric shocks applied to his temples and genitals, how he was handcuffed with tight manacles and then lifted into the air from behind.
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and quietly and politely asked him to come with them. “They took me in a decent, quiet way,” he said. “Then the torture started.”
Over the next several weeks they tortured him within the walls of the Nasiriyah security center, transferred him to a larger prison in Baghdad for more torture and solitary confinement, he said, before they transferred him back to Nasiriyah for still more torture.
During interrogation sessions they pressed him on whether he had links to Iran — a stronghold of the Shiite faith — whether he was a member of the Iranian Duaa Party, what his beliefs were and whether he was plotting against Saddam. Patiently and steadily, he said, he denied their accusations.
The sheik’s wife, eight daughters and four sons were convinced he had been executed, he said. To this day, he said he has little idea why he was released, having signed some papers without knowing what they said. His family was ecstatic when he returned, he recalled.
During the torture sessions, which he said went on for hours at a time, he would draw on his faith. His torturers forced him to repeat slogans praising Saddam and to join the Baath party, which he did — all to survive, he said.
One of the tiny cells still has wires dangling from the ceiling where prisoners were hung, sometimes upside down, from their manacles.
Abdul Hammid Al Husona, 36, a businessman, said Saturday he was detained at the Nasiriyah center for about a week en route to Jail No. 1 in Baghdad several years ago.
Husona said he was handcuffed, blindfolded and denied food. In a step more demeaning than hurtful, he recalled, he was also hit with his torturer’s shoes.
He doesn’t know exactly why he was jailed in the late 1990s other than that he showed in some small way his distaste for the regime. “During the pain, I just would try and think of something else,” he said, “anything else.”
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Yes, and Pol Pot didn't massacre millions of Cambodians, etc. Power excites the left, the absolute power to control and lead a very stupid world into their way of enlightened thinking. The left, of course, would be in the leadership, the suffering would go to the backwards prols.
What really gets me is that Saddam had so many torturers. To do what they did is mentally very sick. In as far as possible, these monsters need to be rounded up.
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