'US tortures Iraqi prisoners' (al-Kubaisi: Baathists tortured to death)

[Barrett808]

Paris - A former prisoner held by the United States military with senior officials of Saddam Hussein's ousted Iraqi regime charged on Wednesday that fellow detainees had been tortured, some of them to death.

Abdel Jabbar al-Kubaisi, a onetime opposition figure who rallied to Saddam's regime shortly before the 2003 invasion, said that during his 16 months in custody, three former Saddam officials had died under questioning, although he had not faced physical torture.

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He named the three detainees he said had died under interrogation as former prime minister Hamzeh al-Zubaidi, former Baath party official Adel al-Duri, and former intelligence commander Waddah al-Sheikh.

He said he had also seen signs of torture on former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan and germ warfare expert Hazem al-Sheikh al-Rawi.

Kubaisi said: "I saw Ramadan trying to stem the flow of blood from his wounds with salt and water."

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1856378,00.html

[Rose Siding]

1. He attempted a coup against saddam and returned to help him?

This is an odd story. Why wasn't he afraid to go back?

He seems primed, at this point, to advance politically.