""This is a regime that practises systematic rape against the female victims. This is a regime that will drag in a man's wife, daughter or other female relative and repeatedly rape her in front of him." And if he has fled the country, it will send him the video."
"B-b-but, the Iraqis don't even have electricity, and they're getting blown up and blahblahblah!" /DUmmies
He got off easy with hanging.
"In northern Iraq -- the only place in the country where people can speak relatively freely -- Mr. Sweeney interviewed several people who had direct experience of child torture. He also met one of the victims -- a four-year-old girl, the daughter of a man who had worked for Saddam's psychopathic son Uday. When the man fell under suspicion, he fled to the Kurdish safe haven in the north. The police came for his wife and tortured her to reveal his whereabouts; when she didn't break,
they took his daughter and crushed her feet. She was 2 then. Today, she wears metal braces on her legs, and can only hobble."Monsters. It's the only word that fits.