The killing fields of Iraq
Rockwell | 02.10.2003 09:30
At the Labour Party conference a human rights campaigner reported back on what had been discovered in Iraq. Mass graves containing as many as ten thousand people had been found and more mass graves were being discovered all the time.
It was estiminated that there could be up to 100 or more mass graves throughout the Iraqi desert, the Labour conference was told. The conference was also told of the victims of Saddams' seceret police and torturers with reports of people who had had hands or ears cut of or had been pierced or branded with hot irons. In Iraq under Saddam the penalty for slandering Saddam was to have the tongue pierced with a red hot iron. Other torture methods including forcing victims to stand in acid until their feet were burned off. In one case Iraqi dissidents were fed into a machine for shreding plastic. They died screaming in agony and came out mashed up like mince meat. The victims of the Baath regime included children and women. In one incident when one of Saddam's sons Uday fell out with a girl he had her buried up to her wast and set starving dogs on her to rip her apart. Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were personally responsible for dozens of murders and tortures. The Labour conference was left in silence at the revalations. Delegates then stated that this proved that Tony Blair was right to take military action against Iraq to overthrow Saddams regime.
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Well done Rocky
02.10.2003 10:00
This is very relevant news.
All the old stuff about WMD have to be deleted and if repeated violates the bleding middleclass guidelines and probably is consipracy theory too.
Fucking hell!
The pigscum really censored an earlier post on this. Here it goes again.
".........General Sultan Ahmad, the former Iraqi ministry of defence, handed himself over to Major General David Petraeus in charge of the north of Iraq after the American commander had sent him a letter describing him as "a man of honour and integrity." In return for his surrender or so says the Kurdish intermediary who arranged his handover to US forces the Americans had promised to remove his name form the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis around Saddam.
I last saw the portly General Ahmed in April, brandishing a gold- painted Kalashnikov in the Baghdad ministry of information and vowing eternal war against his country's American invaders.
It was Ahmed who persuaded now retired General Norman Schwarzkopf to allow the defeated Iraqi forces to use military helicopters on "official business" after the 1991 US-Iraqi ceasefire agreed at Safwan.
These helicopters were then used in the brutal repression of the Shia Muslim and Kurdish rebellions against Saddam which had been encouraged by President George Bush's father.
Afterwards, there was much talk of indicting General Ahmed as a war criminal, but US General Petraeus seems to have thrown that idea in to the waste-bin.
His quite extraordinary letter to Ahmed which preceded the Iraqi general's surrender and was revealed by the Associated Press news agency described the potential war criminal as "the most respected senior military leader currently residing in Mosul" and promised that he would be treated with "the utmost dignity and respect."
In the same letter which may be studied by war crimes investigators with a mixture of awe and disbelief -- the US officer said that "although we find ourselves on different sides of this war, we do share common traits.
"As military men, we follow the orders of our superiors. We may not necessarily agree with the politics and bureaucracy, but we understand unity of command and supporting our leaders in a common and just cause..........."
Some one should have told the conference that in the absence of water the british troops are there to lick clean the US GI's stinky arse after every shit.
ram
Divide and rule (brother against brother)
02.10.2003 10:25
................As put forth by regional analyst Sandra Mackay: "the rebels utilized their guns and numbers to seize the civilian operatives of the Baath government while former Shia conscripts turned on officers of the army. They hung their captives from rafters of an Islamic school, shot them in the head before walls turned into execution chambers, or simply slit their throats at the point of capture." (The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, p. 24)
Dilip Hiro, another Iraqi historian, documents atrocities in the holy city of Karbala: "insurgents had attacked the army headquarters and seized weapons. . . They decapitated or hanged 75 military officials, some of them Shia, and tortured many more." (Desert Shield To Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War, p. 402)
All told, several thousand policemen, clerks, military personnel and employees of the government were slain, according to Omar Ali, another regional authority. (Crisis in the Arabian Gulf, p. 147)
Meanwhile in northern Iraq, Kurdish separatists were gearing up for their own shot at the regime. As far back as 1961 - seven years before Saddam Hussein came to power - they had been staging violent attacks on Iraq's central government, trying to leverage off a piece of the country to form their own fledgling state.
Accepting Washington's pronouncements about a vanquished Iraqi military, up to 400,000 Kurds undertook a ferocious spree of mayhem that rivaled that of the Shia. According to Mackay, in Kirkuk "no one bothered to count how many servants of Baghdad were shot, beheaded, or cut to shreds with the traditional dagger stuck in the cummerbund of every Kurdish man. By the time Kurdish rage had exhausted itself, piles of corpses lay in the streets awaiting removal by bulldozers." (The Reckoning, p. 26)
This unrestrained carnage, documented by several additional sources, is what the White House (and the media) characterize as "rising up against Saddam."
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ram