Making enemies one prisoner at a time

[soup]

Former Iraqi Prisoner Says Allegations of U.S. Abuse Conform to His Experience

By Scheherezade Faramarzi Associated Press Writer
Published: May 3, 2004


NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - A former Iraqi prisoner says the allegations that inmates at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison have suffered indignities at the hands of their American guards came as no shock to him.

In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Dhia al-Shweiri said he too was stripped naked during his stay in the prison and the humiliation was worse than the torture he endured under Saddam Hussein.

Now the 30-year-old is in the al-Mahdi Army, a militia fighting on behalf of an anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric.
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"If Seyed Muqtada orders us to disband, we will. If he orders us to die, we will die. And if he tells us to live, we will live. We have nothing to do with the Americans and what they demand from us," al-Shweiri said.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAF5J4BSTD.html

What the hell are we doing there?

[MSgt213]

1. Do you believe that the SecDef, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and

no other high ranking officials are saying that they read the report of the abuse of the Iraqi prison system done by a two star general and outlining major problems? This is some piss poor leadership from the top.

[SEpatriot]

2. Hornet's nest

What more can be done to help engender hatred against America by this administration? Yes, I blame King W, because he has unleashed the Eliot Abrams and Paul Wolfowitz's of the world to implement the same "School of the Americas" tactics around the globe. The reports are becoming clear that the "intelligence agents" and "contractors" were giving the orders and encouraging this behavior.

Those GI's that are dying in what may become an everyday affair will pay the price. Thank you George for making the world a more dangerous place!!