Iraqi recounts Abu Ghraib abuse
Aljazeera.net / Aljazeera.net
26-Jul-2009 (one comment)

Photographs showing the abuse of inmates at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison by US prison guards have shocked the world.

The latest one to be outraged is Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff.

Mullen has voiced his disgust after seeing some of the withheld photographs of the abuse that the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, is seeking to keep classified.

In a leaked memo obtained by the Fox News network, Mullen expressed his anger at the incidents of abuse and said he was "appalled" that someone in an American uniform would behave in such a way.

"We haven't all absorbed or applied all the lessons of Abu Ghraib," Mullen said.

But for Mahmood Khalil, an Iraqi television cameraman and former Abu Ghraib inmate, the pictures are more than just disturbing images - they are personal nightmares.

Khalil told Al Jazeera that he was on his way to work when he was stopped at a US checkpoint in 2003, accused of being a terrorist, and led into the notorious prison, where he was held for more than three months.

As Al Jazeera's Mosab Jasim reports, Khalil said he saw guards deliberately abusing and intimidating prisoners in full view of other inmates.

"[One] detainee was tortured in front of my eyes, only three metres from my cell," Khalil said.

"[He] was tortured by dogs to confess to a crime he never committed."

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Farhad Kashani

Delusional and confused

by Farhad Kashani on Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:11 AM PDT

Delusional and confused Shah Gholam (aka smhb)

 

The democracy that Iraq enjoys now is only a dream that Iranians under your beloved Fascist IRI regime can have. Previously, no one could even mention Saddam’s name, now, free press in Iraq trashes and bash government from top to bottom, political parties are everywhere, free elections are held and no one is harassed for their opinion by the government.

 

A few abuses by a few bad apples is a drop in the bucket of what’s really going on in Iraq. The death and destruction caused by IRI-inspired and supported religious groups did not stop the following: Democracy is building up, investments are coming and reconstruction is up and running. These all happened because of the sacrifices of American troops and Iraqi civilians and armed forces who refuse to give up their country to IRI-like religious Fascists.

 

I know IRI goons like you want to trash democracy everywhere, especially around Iran, to make it seem like democracy doesn’t work so Iranians don’t ask for it, but Iranians give a big BEELAKH to people like you.

 

You aint foolin no one. Your regime is doomed.

  


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