Iraqi blogger recounts his arrest and detention

[quaoar]

http://secretsinbaghdad.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-found-myself.html

They started by asking me: “What’s the connection between you and the London Bombs?” !!!
And I was like: “haaaaa???!!.”. I said: “London Bombs???! Nothing!”

BANG!!

A heavy hand landed on my neck, my brain was too busy to feel the pain, I felt my neck numbing for a while.

“SPEAAAK” he shouted.

“Turn around” he yelled.

I turned, facing the room now, but not seeing anything other than my nose and the shoes of the person who was interrogating me, standing so close.

“Why do you have a beard?” he asked.

“Because the prophet...” (I was trying to tell him that prophet Mohammad had one, and that I have one because I love to look like him...)

BANG

He slapped me on the face. It made a loud noise that the room became dead-silent for some seconds….

“May the prophet curse you” he shouted.

[stellanoir]

1. Thanks

I've read Faiza's and Raed's blogs, and Riverbend's blogs for a long while. The atrocities committed in our name and with our money are truly unthinkable.

Thank god he's safe now.

We must do something to help these all these innocents.

As quickly as we can.

[seabeyond]

2. thank you for posting this. i have been curious about the story

what a wonderful man he is and he shared so much. i have been reading raed since priorto the invasion. the sad,. what this story left for me

all these things may be the same as what saddam did to the people. but now, ..... we are the ones responsible. we werent before. now all these innocence thrown in jail and tortured are our responsibilities, is our shame