The Torturers of Saddam's Abu Ghraib and Their Place in the New Iraq

From AEI

Video of Iraqi torture victims [VERY GRAPHIC; NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN] Note: the video listed in the event materials box (above right) covers the conference proceedings and does not contain the images found in this Pentagon videotape.

For the last 30 years, Iraqis inside Iraq had little knowledge of the full extent of Saddam Hussein's oppressive tactics. Many Iraqis who have documented his regime's history argue that Coalition authorities have not done enough to make this history known to the Iraqi people, and proponents of more stringent de-Baathification argue that until this education is completed, Saddam-era officials cannot be trusted with the rule of the new state.

Note that the first sentence in the first paragraph is a link that will take you to a download of a video showing Iraqis being tortured by Saddams thugs. Be warned it is very, very graphic and sickening. Here is a description from the New York Post:

June 16, 2004 -- THE video only lasts four minutes or so — gruesome 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.

It is horrible to watch but it must be shown. The world is screaming for US blood over the "abuse" at Abu Ghraib. Now they need to see the "torture" by Saddam at Abu Ghraib.
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