"They poured cold water on me and electrocuted me several times" *CAUTION*

[sabra]

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-22T214041Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-213493-1.xml

Islamist militants impose will in some Iraq towns

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Despite repeated offensives U.S. troops still do not control of parts of northwestern Iraq and Islamist militants all but govern some towns, dispensing summary justice with public executions, residents say.

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TORTURE SCENES

Video discs distributed in towns across Anbar, including the regional capital Ramadi, show torture sequences. In one, a suspected police spy has string tied tight around his penis before he is forced to drink two litres of liquid.

Music and Western-style dress have been banned in both Haditha and Qaim, residents say, and women are forced to cover up with veils. Barbers are forbidden from cutting hair in Western styles. Anyone breaking the rules, which recall Taliban edicts in Afghanistan, is lashed with cables.

Sheikh Thafir al-Aani, the imam of the main mosque in Qaim, said Zarqawi's group had widespread control.

"They are trying to create an Islamic caliphate," he said. "They prevent people from cutting their hair and punish those who wear Western clothes."

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"They poured cold water on me and electrocuted me several times, telling me to confess to being a spy," he said.

"They have this principle of killing any suspect, and saying that anyone innocent of their charges will go to heaven."

[demnan]

1. Before it's all over

people over there will have fond memories of Saddam Hussien.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Scary thought

[Frederik]

4. They already have

[Southpaw Bookworm]

9. Especially the women

Considering the new constitution.

[tk2kewl]

5. I don't remember the source but I read on DU about a guy ...

who had been in Abu Grabi under Saddam and Bush and said that at least under Saddam he got to keep his clothes on while he was tortured

[sabra]

6. that seems to be the sad reality! :-(

[rodeodance]

3. wonder if Bush will bring this up to his speech to the vets today?? naw~~

[KansDem]

7. You know, I used to be "religious..."

I was raised attending church regularly; I was involved in church groups through junior high and high school; I sang in the church choir in high school and the first year in college...

No more...
They have this principle of killing any suspect, and saying that anyone innocent of their charges will go to heaven.

It's this kind of thinking that turned me away from any vestige of the worth of "organized religion." I've have it with the religiously insane!!! :grr:

[sabra]

8. that line gave me the chills!

I grew up in a religious Jewish home, and I know what you are talking about.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. You made it a year longer than I did.