Thursday, June 17, 2004

Saddam victims torture video

From The New York Post

June 16, 2004 -- THE video only lasts four minutes or so — grue some scenes of torture from the days when Saddam Hussein's thugs ruled Abu Ghraib prison. I couldn't bear to watch, so I walked out until it was over.

Some who stayed wished they hadn't. They told of savage scenes of decapitation, fingers chopped off one by one, tongues hacked out with a razor blade — all while victims shriek in pain and the thugs chant Saddam's praises.

Saddam's henchmen took the videos as newsreels to document their deeds in honor of their leader.

But these awful images didn't show up on American TV news.

In fact, just four or five reporters showed up for the screening at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, which says it got the video via the Pentagon. Fewer wrote about it.

No surprise, since no newscast would air the videos of Nick Berg and Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl getting decapitated, or of U.S. contractors in Fallujah getting torn limb from limb by al Qaeda operatives.

But every TV network has endlessly shown photos of the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib. Why?

"Because most [journalists] want Bush to lose," says AEI scholar Michael Ledeen, who helped host the screening of the Saddam video.

It's not just journalists. The Pentagon has lots of Saddam atrocity footage — but is loathe to release it, possibly for fear it would be taken as a crude attempt to blunt criticism of Abu Ghraib.

So the world sees photos of U.S. interrogators using dogs to scare prisoners at Abu Ghraib. But not the footage of Saddam's prisoners getting fed — alive — to Doberman pinschers on Saddam's watch. (That video's been described by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.)

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Saddam's torture videos may be too awful to show, but it's hard to explain the low media interest in the story of seven Iraqi men who had their right hands chopped off by Saddam's thugs — and then got new prosthetic arms and new hope in America.

They're eloquent, they're available, they're grateful for the U.S. liberation of Iraq. No one can better talk about Saddam's tortures — and no one is more eager to do so. Yet, as of yesterday, the New York Times had written 177 stories on Abu Ghraib — with over 40 on the front page. The self-proclaimed "paper of record" hadn't written a single story about those seven Iraqi men.


Excellent article; read the whole thing.
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TigerHawk said...

It is certainly useful to remind ourselves what a dirtbag Saddam is. It is also fair to say that the Western press in general applies a double standard when it comes to Arab atrocities -- my view is that Western journalists have such contempt for Arabs that they are unwilling to hold them to the same norms as Westerners.

However, none of this makes Abu Ghraib any less newsworthy. Why? "Two wrongs do not make a right." Nothing Saddam might have done can explain or justify Abu Ghraib.

My problem with the Abu Ghraib scandal, by the way, is not that these bad things happened, or even that they may have happened because of a loosening of rules emanating from Rumsfeld or Cheney or even Bush. Prison guards do evil things from time to time, and good faith bureaucratic decisions go badly wrong from time to time. My frustration with this is the way that the White House, in particular, has failed to deal with this scandal decisively. Just as Republicans were correct that Janet Reno should have resigned after Waco, Cabinet-level heads should roll after Abu Ghraib, even if such heads are not actually culpable of anything but residing at the top of their department's chain of command.

Anonymous said...

Jack: are you saying that a department head should roll without completing an ongoing investigation ? It seems to me that slow though it may be, justice is being served at the present time. Later facts may show that higher leadership is responsible in some way for what happened in the prison but at present, eliminating any of our leaders just to make a point seems a little hasty to me. Just my opinion. Thanks.
Wayne

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