Torture Still Routine in Iraqi Jails, Report Says

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By Gideon Long

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities routinely torture prisoners, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, citing examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those who suffered under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).


Prisoners have been beaten with cables and hose pipes, and suffered electric shocks to their earlobes and genitals, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said. Some have been starved of food and water and crammed into standing-room only cells.


"The people of Iraq (news - web sites) were promised something better than this after the government of Saddam Hussein fell," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of the group's Middle East and North Africa division.


"The Iraqi interim government is not keeping its promises to honor and respect basic human rights. Sadly, the Iraqi people continue to suffer from a government that acts with impunity in its treatment of detainees."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=18&u=/nm/20050125/ts_nm/iraq_rights_dc

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1. Honor & Respect, You can use those words with this War.

When it comes to the Repubs and how they lied to the American Public.

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2. Where is our Senate? Where is our Congress? Impeach The Son Of A Bush! nt

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3. Our Senators have abandoned us to the wolves