Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib
A wave of the chuck’s tail to Telegraph.co.UK
I let this sit for a week, but not a word in the MSM-
An independent witness who went into Abu Ghraib this week told The Sunday Telegraph that screams were coming from the cell blocks housing the terrorist suspects. Prisoners released from the jail this week spoke of routine torture of terrorism suspects and on Wednesday, 27 prisoners were hanged in the first mass execution since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
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Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards.
“The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better,” said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism.
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Sounds like they’re begging for the panty party hats and the dog show now! How fickle one can be.
When will the MSM cough up a hairball over the way the Iraqi’s run a prison? Where is the professed sensitivity toward the formerly “mistreated prisoners?”
We never should have controlled the prison. The Iraqi’s make a wonderful cat’s paw for getting the intelligence we need. The military acts on the presented intel, while the Sunnis and the Shi’a point fingers at each other, leaving us as the driven snow.
The Germans can’t say anything and the French, well who cares. As for the MSM, they’re in the same category as the French.
Archived in: Housing, Iraq, Maine, MilitarySeptember 19, 2006 at 11:54 am | Trackback
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A contingent from one of my sons’ unit spent a year doing “corrections” at Abu Ghraib in 2004/2005, just following the Lindy England stupidities. The prisoners/detainees were common criminals and also those apprehended as insurgents.
At the time, the Iraqis hadn’t the ability to manage the place, so Combat MP’s were assigned the miserable task, and Marines pulled local security. Routine mortar attacks on the compound killed dozens of inmates and not a single American.
All in all, the entire Abu Ghraib affair was a debit for us. One wonders if Shi’a and Sunni are treated differently in the back rooms, or if the noise is non-sectarian screaming.
I hope diversity holds true if for no other reason than to cutoff any carping by the MSM. Since there is not a peep from the scurrilous scribes, my guess is diversity rules.
Of course apt application of common article #3 of the GC would have made moot the need for the prison. Ah, hindsight!