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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 06:05 PM
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Another Iraqi Torture Story
Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 06:05 PM by lonestarnot
Hope it is not a duplicate, I looked for it and didn't see it.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs
Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 3, 2005; A01



Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.

It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents.

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 06:23 PM
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1. I've seen this a few times today, but thanks!
Just an FYI in case no one responds.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 06:24 PM
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2. It's so horrible
:cry:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 09:18 PM
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7. I get busy at work and don't get to do a thorough check of what's here.
Sorry.
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demgurl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 07:12 PM
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3. I did not see this earlier.
I sent out one email, about torture, to my friends yesterday. I sent another one using this story today. Wonder how many people will still be speaking to me after a month.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 07:16 PM
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4. The ones that will not be speaking to you aren't worth worrying...
about, if they uphold these kinds of things!
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demgurl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 08:34 PM
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5. I understand that and I am weeding them out as each day goes by.
I will not be silent any more. There is too much of that in our country already.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 09:24 PM
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10. Geeze Hubert Folttz.... I saw your post after mine...LOL they are almost
identical!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 09:19 PM
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8. Well if they don't speak to you for speaking up, then they weren't worth
having around anyway! Silence Kills!
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 08:37 PM
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6. I forced myself to look at this thread. The point is, we must
not close our eyes to such no matter how sick it makes us. This war will not end until these tales and the pictures are forced upon every single citizen in this country to bare witness to it. When we don't and we turn away, we become complicit, it's that simple.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 09:21 PM
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9. Aunt Patsy Check out the Rag'n grannies!
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demgurl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 10:07 PM
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11. I could not agree with you any more than I already do. eom
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