Freed Iranians accuse US of torture

[joeunderdog]

AFP - Two Iranian journalists with state-run television who were freed by US forces in Iraq after four months of detention have charged they were subjected to "severe torture" while in American custody.

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"After 48 hours of detention and after they were sure we were documentary filmmakers and they had looked at our films, the torture and the harassment began," he said.

"In our last interrogation, which happened a week or 10 days ago, they themselves said it was a mistake by the soldier or officer who arrested us. And I told them that this mistake could have been solved after three days, not four months," the journalist said.

"These four months have been dreadful. I will give full details later."

Abou Taleb said more than 50 other Iranian nationals were being held in Baghdad, adding he believed most of them were people who had crossed into the country for a pilgrimage to the Shi'ite Muslim holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.

"The US is nothing but a lie, a big lie," an embittered Abou Taleb said.

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[PartyPooper]

1. Welcome to America!

We're all being tortured...since Junior was 'installed' by SCOTUS in 2000.

Take a number.

:evilfrown:

[Fridays Child]

2. B*sh probably has a closed circuit TV feed of the torture...

...piped into the White House.

On a related note, I wonder if there has been a sharp upsurge in cases of missing pets in the vicinity of 1600 Pennsylvania, since...oh, say about February of 2001.

[tom_paine]

3. Whom to believe?

Remember during the days of the Old Republic, when there wasn't a question? When the credibility of the Old US was enough that such allegations could be dismissed near outright?

Well...no more. No damned more.

Not in Bushevik-occupied Imperial Amerika.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

4. Huh?

Remember during the days of the Old Republic, when there wasn't a question? When the credibility of the Old US was enough that such allegations could be dismissed near outright?

When exactly was that again? It sure wasn't any time in the last 50 years...