Courtesy of The Smoking Gun (h/t Robert):
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.
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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 and drawings available at TSG.
Reached for comment, Andrew Sullivan’s outrage expressed outrage—noting that it would take the rest of the day off so it could “hose itself down, crank up the AC, and read a chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with a pair of silky panties on my head in a show of solidarity with the victims.”
no worries… obviously bushco fiction… ho hum…
You know, for a while there Sully was posting so many pictures of torture victims that I emailed him and accused him of having a pathology about it, which pissed him off in the extreme; he emailed just to tell me so.
*laughs*
Thanks for the h/t, Jeff.
Order of the Phoenix, Gracie? Half-Blood Prince is the latest, and we’re in the final countdown for Deathly Hallows.
You gotta be more up on your Potter, dude.
FOR THE CHILDREN!
But…but…they are justified…er, root causes?…uh, ABU GRHAIB!!! Oiloiloil. Blackwater, KBR!!!?111! AIPAC!
Ready to hear that and more?
The rights to challenge one’s detention is a critical protection against human rights abuses… How is this supposed to work if Coalition Forces keep short-circuiting the process?
It’s not their fault. It’s that lyin’ sonofabitch Johnson!
They would never hurt us, Jenny. We know that.
Solidarity? Andrew Sullivan?
The only solid-arity you’ll find in Sullivan’s proximity is his Lex Baldwin (TM) latex dildoe, usually stashed in his Audi’s glove-compartment.
Reflexive flaccidity in response to Al Qaida seems to be Sully’s MO these days.
Everyone knows that in that particular region of the world, torturing each other is part of their religion. Oh, and torturing people who are not part of their religion is part of their religion also. But being tortured by people who are not part of their religion is definitely not part of their religion, and is therefore, by definition, double-torture.
…..torturers.
Sorry, the US has the market cornered on terror. If Al-Queda tortures, ITS OUR FAULT!
ABU GHIRAIB !!!!!!
Where’s the toilet and the Koran? Torture? I think not!
Exactly. See, we torture trying to gain from it, we are profiting from torture. That is why is it evil.
If you are doing it as part of your culture, or just for shits and giggles, well I mean we must be tolerant.
Allahu Palomino Akbar!
Then he said he’ll run up to the bathroom and play “yankee-my-wnakee”.
To show solidarity.
Isn’t Andrew Sullivan’s selective outrage just a variant of “What do you expect from the bloody wogs?”
Don’t you people see? If we were not there, there would be no torture, just Saddam’s version I guess…..
Disgusting. What makes a person do that to another person?
Peer pressure, timmy, coupled with low self-esteem.
The same reason you post here.
Well, you could tell your remedial English not to read my posts to you…
Are you being pleasant because of yesterday’s post or just because?
happyfeet,
Like starting smoking cigarettes?
Exactly so, Timmy, smoking… torture… and remember the effects of both are compounded if you do them with kids in the car.
Question: if the torturers are torturing people who look just like them, is that somehow less a crime than if they torture people who, say, follow different lifestyle choices?
Just looking for a way to give the punishment for torture teeth—which we can’t do unless we’re able to label it a “hate crime.”
Al Qaeda just practices recreational torture, completely devoid of criminal intent, so I think it would be tough to get a conviction there. If this sort of thing is bugging at you, I think Amnesty has a strongly-worded letter on their site you could adapt. Just scratch out the CIA-Gitmo bits. Amnesty doesn’t have an address for Al Qaeda though, but you should be able to google it.
NEWSFLASH: Rosie O’Donnell just revealed that Rudy Guiliani had WTC 7 collapsed to remove all evidence of the NYPD torture chambers hidden in their “emergency crisis center.” Either that or it was cheaper and potentially less embarrassing than remodeling their “Cruising” themed officer’s club.
It seems to be affected by skin color: the lighter the skin the less acceptability to be the torturer, but the more acceptable to be the tortured.
At least, that is what I hear from the news.
Here timmy, lemme help:
“What make a religion do that to other people?”
There we go, all fixed up.
And for an answer, try Wahhabism for a start…
Google it!
Charles, you know that it is impossible to tell if your comment is a joke or not, don’t you?
Brilliant!
As of 1:00 a.m., Andrew hasn’t seen fit to mention this torture story, even though PW, Drudge, Smoking Gun and LGF have, with PW and LGF mentioning him by name.
Not that I was holding my breath waiting for him to notice it, though…
It’s past 2:00 a.m. here on the west coast, and St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache hasn’t mentioned the story. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how he blames this on the Bush administration’s approval of torture (i.e. wrapping muslims with Israeli flags, fake menstrual blood, slapping, cold air conditioning, and…I hate to even type the words…waterboarding) tomorrow.
Just remember that it’s Bush’s fault. Rumsfeld’s, too. Things will be all good when a true conservative like John Kerry is seated in the Oval Office, I’m sure.
Disgusting. What makes a person do that to another person?
Posted by timmyb
The obvious outcome of moral equivelency.
You must understand. Sullivan isn’t ignoring the story out of perversity or intellectual laziness. He’s merely overwhelmed by the GOB-SMACKING VILENESS of the deed. He’s going to shoot up some man-juice, yell at his beagle, and then return to give us wall-to-wall coverage of the torture of our soldiers by our hideous enemies. Just you wait.
Fortunately I just finished Harry Houdini’s audio course in how to escape from being encased in concrete underwater, so I may even be able to hold my breath while I wait.
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Wait a minute—Houdini’s dead, isn’t he?
That’s what the Germans want you to think, McGehee…
Robin, ah, thank you, I’ll be here all week.