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This is the documentary about the 7 men who had their right hands cut off by order of Saddam who had the horror videotaped. Don North is the journalist who was given the video of the amputations. He found the seven men, and thru his and the efforts of others the seven where brought to the US, received new prosthetics, met President Bush etc. Go to the website to link to the WSJ article by Daniel Henninger: "Want a Different Abu Ghraib Story? Try This One" I tracked Mr. North down and found out that no one i.e. "Sixty Minutes",...

June 24, 2004 -- AFTER terrorists beheaded Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, The New York Times kept the photo showing the horror of his final moments off yesterday's front page. Instead, the Times' front page bizarrely describes Kim as "sitting or kneeling quietly" as he waited to die — in reality the photo, back on Page A-11, shows Kim with his mouth open wide in terror, and the video shows him shaking with fear. It's just the latest instance of how the press often hesitates to show the true savagery of America's enemies in the War on Terror, whether al Qaeda...

Hands of horror, hands of hope Posted: June 22, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Rebecca Hagelin © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com As I struggle to find the words to describe the horror of what I have learned, I find myself doing more tossing and turning than mental writing. The lighted numbers on my alarm clock indicate that the hour is late: 2 a.m. Flipping on the lamp, I then reach for my Blackberry, which was awaiting me on the nightstand for this precise purpose. I quickly type a few thoughts and return to darkness and my attempts to frame this column in my sleepless bed....

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I had a strange experience the other morning at the Heritage Foundation. I watched seven Iraqi men as they sat through a documentary that included scenes of their own right hands being lopped off by Saddam Hussein's "physicians" at the now-famous Abu Ghraib prison in the mid-'90s. Some fidgeted, some cried, and others stared straight ahead, muscles tensed. These men are the subject of Remembering Saddam, produced by former ABC and NBC correspondent Don North shortly after the liberation of Baghdad last year. Interviews of the men and their families are juxtaposed with footage that was seized by the U.S....

"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...

<p>Seven Iraqi men whose right hands were amputated by Saddam Hussein's regime nine years ago attended the first public viewing in the United States yesterday of "Remembering Saddam," the documentary that tells their stories.</p> <p>The seven were among nine merchants who were accused of dealing in American dollars, a crime in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war. They were arrested and imprisoned for a year in Abu Ghraib prison.</p>