Abu Ghraib prisoner seeks justice one year after scandal

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/April/focusoniraq_April117.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Ali al-Shalal, nicknamed “clawman” by his US guards, said they attached electrodes to his body and tortured him at the height of the abuse scandal at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. And he describes going through the same agony as a man in an infamous photo of a black-hooded prisoner, dressed like the grim reaper, humiliated and standing on a crate, with wires running from his body that captured the spirit of sadism in the US-run detention centre.

A year after the revelations of rampant sexual and physical abuse leaked to the media, the 42-year-old Shalal has rebuilt his life, fighting for those abused in Iraq’s US-run prisons.

But he is haunted by his own memories from the autumn of 2003 in the notorious prison on Baghdad’s western outskirts. snip

“They electrocuted me. I had the impression my eyes were falling out of their sockets and I fell down. At that moment, they took my picture and laughed. They did it again. I fell without even knowing.”

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[riverwalker]

1. my god

I am sick.

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2. Why isn't this man and others brought in front of a Congressional

investigative committee? Why isn't this man interviewed by ABC, FOX, CNN...? Why aren't priests, ministers, clergy... standing up and demanding investigations?

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3. For the same reason that junior didn't invite him to the White House

for a fireside chat. Like he did with six Iraqis business men that had one of their hands taken off by Saddam Hussein for stealing.

I agree that the priests and ministers should be screaming to high heaven for accountability. But we know that the only time they are heard from is when one of their own is charged for abusing little boys.