Iraq Committee Shows Torture Equipment

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Torture equipment used by Saddam Hussein's slain son, Odai, to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes was displayed Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the opening of the Olympics next month in Athens.

Journalists were shown medieval-style torture equipment, including an "iron maiden-like" casket with metal spikes fixed to the inside that athletes had been forced into and chain whips with steel barbs the size of tennis balls attached to the end.

"During the old regime, Odai was looking for results and he wanted winners. He didn't like second place," Talib Mutan, an Iraqi Olympics Committee official, told Associated Press Television News.
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Mutan said athletes who earned Odai's wrath were tortured in various ways, through beatings, sleep deprivation and being forced to walk barefoot over hot asphalt during Iraq's searing summer.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-torture-tools,0,1398658.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[thebigidea]

1. On Loan from the General Miller Collection, no doubt

[wtmusic]

2. Compare/contrast with our torture equipment

don't want to be left behind!

[patdem]

3. Is that where all those holes in the Iraqi athlete came from???

WOW...how desperate is the world to say Sadaam baaaddddd!!! ??? :shrug:

[wtmusic]

4. Blatant spin by AP to try to take the shine off the convention n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Right. And just how are the athletes crippled by such torture supposed...

...to train and/or compete? Odai may have been meaner than a snake, but he wasn't stupid.

The equipment they describe in the article as "an 'iron maiden-like' casket with metal spikes fixed to the inside", and "chain whips with steel barbs the size of tennis balls attached to the end", probably were "medieval-style torture equipment" used centuries ago and found in a museum for propaganda purposes.

Just another story to deflect attention from the torture inflicted by U. S. personnel.

[0007]

6. More propaganda by the crime cabal

[lumpy]

7. Ridiculous

Odai must have had access to more modern methods of torture similar to those used at US military prisons, sleep deprivation,beatings, et al.

[bvar22]

8. and....and...and....

they threw babies out of incubators!!!!!!!


/skepticism

[leesa]

9. Our torture equipment or Saddams?

This is nonsense.

[daleo]

10. This stuff had a lot more impact, before the U.S. got into torturing too

Frankly, it now has the aura of one rapist accusing another rapist of being a rapist and having rude manners as well.