U.S. jail torture "worse than under Saddam" (Abu Ghraib)

[Barrett808]

A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men says even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.

The inmate testified on Tuesday at the court martial of reservist soldier Charles Graner, accused ringleader of guards who engaged in the abuse, which prompted outrage when pictures of the sexual humiliation were published around the world.

"I couldn't believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could kill myself because no one was there to stop it," Hussein Mutar, who was sent to Abu Ghraib accused of car theft, said in videotaped testimony.

"They were torturing us as though it was theatre for them," he said, as the prosecution wound up its case against Graner on assault, dereliction of duty and other charges that could bring him up to 17 and a half years in prison.

An obviously ill-at ease Mutar added: "I was extremely emotional because (even) Saddam didn't do this to us."

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=652437§ion=news&src=rss/uk/topNews

[forintegrity]

1. and yet, Congress

will confirm Gonzalez?

I am so embarrassed to be an American!!!

[Taxloss]

2. That's appalling.

I suppose people who are still alive after seeing the inside of one of Saddam's prisons are a self-selecting group - that is, he might not have seen the worst abuses - but nevertheless it's a damning indictment.

[leftchick]

3. Another example of bush* being WORSE than Saddam

I am sure bush* will have killed more people too before all is said and done.

[Moderator]

4. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1141916