Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:21:07
And now, an example of actual torture
Iraqis Found in Torture House Tell of Brutality of Insurgents
Marines on an operation to eliminate insurgents that began Friday broke through the outside wall of a building in this small rural village to find a torture center equipped with electric wires, a noose, handcuffs, a 574-page jihad manual - and four beaten and shackled Iraqis.
The American military has found torture houses after invading towns heavily populated by insurgents - like Falluja, where the anti-insurgent assault last fall uncovered almost 20 such sites. But rarely have they come across victims who have lived to tell the tale.
The men said they told the marines, from Company K, Third Marines, Second Division, that they had been tortured with shocks and flogged with a strip of rubber for more than two weeks, unseen behind the windows of black glass. One of them, Ahmed Isa Fathil, 19, a former member of the new Iraqi Army, said he had been held and tortured there for 22 days. All the while, he said, his face was almost entirely taped over and his hands were cuffed.
In an interview with an embedded reporter just hours after he was freed, he said he had never seen the faces of his captors, who occasionally whispered at him, “We will kill you.” He said they did not question him, and he did not know what they wanted. Nor did he ever expect to be released.
“They kill somebody every day,” said Mr. Fathil, whose hands were so swollen he could not open a can of Coke offered to him by a marine. “They’ve killed a lot of people.”
The manual recovered - a fat, well-thumbed Arabic paperback - listed itself as the 2005 First Edition of “The Principles of Jihadist Philosophy,” by Abdel Rahman al-Ali. Its chapters included ”How to Select the Best Hostage,” and ”The Legitimacy of Cutting the Infidels’ Heads.”
Please allow me to translate this story into simple American terms:
FUCK YOU DICK DURBIN. This is torture, you idiot. Your apology was meaningless, made even more so when you refute the doublespeak the next day.
FUCK YOU MICHAEL MOORE. These are your “Minutemen,” your “Revolutionaries.” Are you still glad you held them up as examples of the good Iraqi people? Are you EVER going to admit you were 100% wrong?
Posted by JimK at 02:21 AM on June 19, 2005
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#2 Posted by Displace 
on 06/19 at 02:28 PM -
Dick Durbin was a dumbass for making those parallels.
And he apologized? When?
#3 Posted by Drumwaster on 06/19 at 02:47 PM -
He never actually apologized. It was more of a “I regret that you never quite understood the nuance of my criticisms of Bushitler’s murderous policies” kind of apology. He never actually withdrew a single word, just expressed his regret that we didn’t understand him better.
Kind of like if I had punched you in the mouth and then said “I regret that you don’t have the capacity to understand my need to do that”.
Durbin’s an asshat.
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#1 Posted by Drumwaster
on 06/19 at 04:42 AM -
Ooh, I know, I know! Pickmepickme! {waving arm frantically}