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Hideously gruesome photographs and videotapes of Saddam Hussein's police torturing innocent Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison are said to be in the hands of the new Arab-language television network Alhurra, which is culling through the material deciding what to broadcast.Novelist and screenwriter Roger Simon reports on his Web Site that the images include: * Photographs of actual live castrations of Kurds.* Video tapes of two beheadings, with one featuring the executioners singing "Happy Birthday, Saddam" in Arabic as they carry out the grisly murder. * More video of a detainee whose hand his tied to a board...

White House Suggests Media Explain Cover Up of Saddam Atrocity Video By Jeff Gannon Talon News June 18, 2004 WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan denied that the White House had a role in keeping a gruesome video of atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein's regime from the media. When asked by Talon News on Thursday to explain the virtual news blackout of the horrific images of Iraqis being beheaded, tongues being cut out, and fingers being chopped off, McClellan said that he'd "leave it to the media to address those issues." McClellan pointed out that Saddam...

Friday, December 19, 2003 Life under Saddam's regime Points to the prosecution in the forthcoming trails of Saddam's regime After the previous article in which I listed some of the methods that Saddam regime used against the detainees and prisoners, I received many e mails about it. Most of the e mails from peoples living in the western countries which respect the human rights and do not submit their own citizens to tortures or humiliations. On the other hand the dictatorship tyrant regime does. Saddam's tortures are amongst the most brutal and evil ever seen in the history of mankind....

Weapons inspectors have arrived in Baghdad. Here are some of the key extracts from the UK government's dossier of alleged human rights abuses in Iraq. Click here to go to the full report The dossier's introduction: Iraq is a terrifying place to live. People are in constant fear of being denounced as opponents of the regime. They are encouraged to report on the activities of family and neighbours. The security services can strike at any time. Arbitrary arrests and killings are commonplace. Between three and four million Iraqis, about 15% of the population, have fled their homeland rather than live...