{"id":9124,"date":"2007-05-24T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2007-05-24T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:08:00","slug":"torture-al-qaeda-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9124","title":{"rendered":"“Torture, Al-Qaeda Style”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of The Smoking Gun<\/a> (h\/t Robert):<\/p>\n

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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.\n<\/p>\n

\n[…]\n<\/p>\n

\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nPhotos and drawings available at TSG.\n<\/p>\n

\nReached 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<\/i> with a pair of silky panties on my head in a show of solidarity with the victims.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […] The images, which were just declassified by the<\/p>\n

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