Iraqi Victim Says U.S. Torture Worse Than Saddam

[NVMojo]

truly, truly a sad and embarassing mark on America ....


FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A former inmate at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.

The inmate testified at the court martial of reservist soldier Charles Graner, accused ringleader of guards who engaged in the abuse, which prompted outrage when pictures of the sexual humiliation were published around the world.

"I couldn't believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could kill myself because no one was there to stop it," Hussein Mutar, who was sent to Abu Ghraib accused of car theft, said in videotaped testimony.

"They were torturing us as though it was theater for them," he said, as the prosecution wound up its case against Graner on assault, dereliction of duty and other charges that could bring him up to 17 1/2 years in prison. An obviously ill-at ease Mutar added: "I was extremely emotional because (even) Saddam didn't do this to us."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20050112/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_dc

[saigon68]

1. Saddam never bombed the United States or killed Amerikan children

Or as they say at the Pentagon

"KILL THE RAG-HEADS" !

[Judi Lynn]

2. Excellent article. What a damned late date to hear previous government

was not as vile as the American occupation. We'd have to really improve to get things back to the nasty level they were during Saddam Hussein's time!

Photo of Graner with parents, on far right and left sides, military escort to Graner's immediate right:



Proud Mom and Pops Graner, with their prodigy.



From the article:

Two investigators testified that they had identified prisoners shown in the abuse pictures as common criminals arrested on charges including robbery, assault and prostitution.
(snip)

Really dangerous guys, right? Tortured for _Bush's war program. Since when did you ever hear of torturing ordinary criminals? Loathesome.

[NVMojo]

3. extremely loathesome! And this should be on the front page of every

paper in this country ...that Iraqis have never been treated this bad as they have by US!!! Why are we there? Other than to inflict a certain type of HELL on people who never harmed US in the first place?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Hey now.. . he tried to kill my daddy..... eom.

[Moderator]

5. duplicate topic, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1141916