Thursday, May 24, 2007
Why we fight, at The Smoking Gun:
MAY 24--In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an "al-Qaeda torture chamber." It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis who were found in a padlocked room in Karmah. The group, which included a boy, were reportedly beaten with chains, cables, and hoses. Photos showing injuries sustained by those captives can be found here.
How can you characterize the just retaliation of the Iraqi minutemen in their national liberation struggle as "torture"? The American minutemen tarred and feathered British colonial officials, Tories, and other enemies of the people, after all.
And sad to say, that is how they'll spin it.
Send Amnon Vidan http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/010548.shtml and his (sym)pathetic friends at Amnesty International over there to "look at the content" of the torture chamber and decide who to have sympathy for...