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"In 1995 at -- appropriately -- Abu Ghraib prison, nine Iraqi businessmen were surgically "relieved" of their right hands. While TV news producer Don North was in Iraq last year, he was shown videotapes made by Saddam's men of the amputations and determined that he would find these men and help them. He found seven of them and made his own documentary of their story including medical help. That help came in the form of state-of-the-art electronic hands, with fingers, that respond to trained muscular movements. The $50,000 hands were donated by Otto Bock, a German-American prosthetic company. The seven...

I was struck by how shocked members of the Senate were upon viewing additional pictures of the undisciplined, unprincipled freaks masquerading as members of our military at Abu Ghraib prison. Keep in mind, according to reports from the Senators themselves, most of the additional pictures were of our soldiers having sex with each other– male soldiers having sex with female soldiers, that is. Senators such as Feinstein and Campbell expressed absolute shock at the pictures they saw. I’m shocked at how out-of-touch our Senators seem to be when it comes to the nature of what happened at Abu Ghraib. Now...

New York, NY - PipeLineNews - The left-wing American press is in possession of some of the most gruesome video scenes ever witnessed in the Western world, documenting abuse of Iraqi citizens on a scale heretofore unimaginable. These ghastly video images, which are in the hands of the Washington Post, ABC news and - one would have to assume, the rest of the so-called legitimate press - show Iraqi prisoners being beheaded, having fingers slowly cut off, having their tongues cut out – blood gushing everywhere and screaming in unbelievable agony as they are having their testicles roughly hacked off...

Now political correctness has bled over into how we interrogate terrorists. Great. Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez has issued an edict that prohibits any and all kinds of coercive interrogation practices in Iraq. Obviously this comes in the wake of what the media has termed the ''pictures of abuse'' from the Abu Ghraib prison. But what many people seem to have forgotten is the fact many of these ''detainees'' are the same thugs and butchers that used to perpetrate Saddam Hussein’s real atrocities. It would seem we are dolling out kindness to those who would kill us. Before I go any...

The documents show that MPs staged the photographs to discipline the prisoners for acts ranging from rioting to an alleged rape of a teenage boy in the prison. On Oct. 24, the MPs decided to punish three detainees suspected of raping a teenage boy at the prison. To make the men confess, the MPs stripped them and handcuffed them together. "They started to handcuff the two rapist together in odd positions/ways," England told investigators. "Once the two were handcuffed together, the third guy was brought over and handcuffed between the other two. Then they were laying on the floor handcuffed...

JEWELLER Nazaar Joudi cries as he remembers the Americans taking over Abu Ghraib prison. But the tears in his eyes are of gratitude, not humiliation. He knows that a handful of US soldiers have brought shame upon themselves and their nation for the way they treated Iraqi prisoners at the jail. But he also knows how much worse the prison was under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

May 22, 2004 An Abu Ghraib Investigation t has been gratifying to see Senator John Warner, the Republican who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, lead a bipartisan effort to look into the abuse of prisoners in Iraq. The hearings have already done far more than the Pentagon ever intended to do in providing a public airing of the Abu Ghraib disaster. But with each day's horrible revelations, it seems evident that the hearings will not be enough. It is also hard to believe that the military's own investigations will yield much, given the shifting of blame offered...

May 22, 2004DETAINEESTestimony From Abu Ghraib Prisoners Describes a Center of Violence and FearBy STEVEN LEE MYERS ASHINGTON, May 21 — It was one night in November when the guards came another time for Amjed Isail Waleed. He was in Room 1, he recalled later, when "they told me to lay down on my stomach and they were jumping on me from the bed onto my back and my legs."The assault was only beginning. He was already naked, and his hands were bound and tied to a cell door. One guard urinated on him and laughed. Two women hit...

May 22, 2004 Handful of Soldiers Spoke Out, as Many Kept Quiet on AbuseBy KATE ZERNIKE pecialist Joseph M. Darby had just arrived at Abu Ghraib in October when his friend, Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., showed him a picture on his digital camera, of a naked prisoner chained to his cell with his arms hung above him. "The Christian in me says it's wrong," Specialist Darby would later tell investigators Specialist Graner had said. Specialist Darby said Specialist Graner then said that as a corrections officer he enjoyed it. Specialist Darby came forward two months later, he told...

President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld were both asked to apologize recently for the illegal and amoral behavior of a few miscreant soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. They did so without qualifications, despite the fact the military had itself uncovered the transgressions and already prepared a blistering indictment of such reprehensible acts. Media scrutiny was intense; a general has already been removed from command; court trials are scheduled; and more resignations, demotions, and jail time loom. But since we are in the season of apologies, we might as well continue it to the bitter end. Here I do...

May 22, 2004 Dogs and Other Harsh Tactics Linked to Military IntelligenceBy DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT ASHINGTON, May 21 — The use of dogs to intimidate prisoners during interrogation at Abu Ghraib in Iraq was approved by military intelligence officers at the prison, and was one of several aggressive tactics they adopted even without approval from senior military commanders, according to interviews gathered by Army investigators.Intelligence officers also demanded strict limits on Red Cross access to prisoners as early as last October, delaying for a day what the military had previously described as an unannounced visit to the...

WASHINGTON - Many of the worst abuses that have come to light from the Abu Ghraib prison happened on a single November day amid a flare of insurgent violence in Iraq (news - web sites), the deaths of many U.S. soldiers and a breakdown of the American guards' command structure. Nov. 8 was the day U.S. guards took most of the infamous photographs: soldiers mugging in front of a pile of naked, hooded Iraqis, prisoners forced to perform or simulate sex acts, a hooded prisoner in a scarecrow-like pose with wires attached to him. It was unclear Friday whether most...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Well, it's official. America's fascination with bizarre legal investigations is now affecting our national security. For two weeks, the media has given more attention to lawyers, inquisitions, second-guessing and grandstanding politicians than to the War on Terror. Like the O.J. Simpson murder trial, which the cameras turned into a circus maximus before the bumbling Judge Lance Ito, the Senate Armed Services Committee and the so-called "9-11 Commission" are now competing with each other for the most outrageous barrage of bombast on the nightly news. On Capitol Hill, the Senate Armed Services Committee, enamored with grand conspiracy theories...

To the casual observer, the situation in Iraq is bleak, the Iraqi people don’t really want democracy, and the only worthwhile story is the brutality and intimidation of Iraqi prisoners. To the “casual observer” of the mainstream media, that is. Although common sense and a semi-continuous pulse would be enough to notice the media’s pack mentality in its Iraq coverage, the numbers paint a compelling—and disturbing—picture. On any given day, Americans are treated to maybe a dozen stories highlighting the good deeds being done by coalition forces—building bridges, literally and figuratively, and generally improving daily life for ordinary Iraqis—and that’s...

The Pics photographed in Abu Ghraib Kept the news in paroxysms of rage, But in ALL… we could see…. The SAME seven MPs And that SAME cigarette smokin’ babe!

May 21, 2004 Afghan Policies on Questioning Prisoners Taken to IraqBy DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT ASHINGTON, May 20 — The interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison was run by a military intelligence unit that had served in Afghanistan and that had taken to Iraq the aggressive rules and procedures it had developed for the Afghan conflict, according to documents and testimony.Some members of the unit, part of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, from Fort Bragg, N.C., have already been quietly punished in connection with the abuse of an Iraqi woman at the prison, according to documents recently released...

I've tried a couple of inquiries, and have done LOTS of searches, but can't turn up that photo of the Moo with the panties on his head. Need it to help put a leftie's opinion in perspective vis-a-vis Nick Berg. Thank you, fellow FReepers.

Military intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq directed military police to take clothes from prisoners, leave detainees naked in their cells and make them wear women's underwear, part of a series of alleged abuses that were openly discussed at the facility, according to a military intelligence soldier who worked at the prison last fall. Sgt. Samuel Provance said intelligence interrogators told military police to strip down prisoners and embarrass them as a way to help "break" them. The same interrogators and intelligence analysts would talk about the abuse with Provance and flippantly dismiss it because the Iraqis...

In World War II, a passer-by, lost in London's main official thoroughfare of Whitehall, stopped a military officer and asked him which side the Defense Department was on. The officer thought for a moment and then said: "Well, it's hard to be sure, but our side, I hope." In the last week the coverage of Iraq by the U.S. media has exhibited at least four separate failings: 1. Selective Agonizing. Ever since the Abu Ghraib photographs emerged, the media has shown them on every possible occasion, accompanied by reports and editorials on America's shame and the world's revulsion. That is...

NEW YORK - Photos of two American soldiers posing with thumbs up near a body packed in ice at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on ABC-TV. The photos showed Army Sgt. Charles A. Graner Jr. and Spc. Sabrina Harman, both of whom have already been charged in the prisoner abuse scandal. They also were shown Thursday on the Arabic TV station Al-Arabiya. The detainee, whose badly bruised corpse was in a body bag packed with ice, died in the prison's showers while being interrogurated by the CIA (news - web sites) or other civilian agents, ABC reported Wednesday. It...