Thursday, June 17, 2004
Nick Shulz has what amounts to a follow-up on yesterday's NY Post piece by Deborah Orin on the as-yet-not-getting-the-attention-they-should Saddam torture videos - an excellent piece which deserves to be read in full. Only a snip is provided here.
NRO: Seeing, and Believing - The torture tapes the media are ignoring.
According to Senate sources, this four-minute video, comprised of several clips, came to be after several verbal and written inquires were made to the Defense Department at the start of 2004. It is an edited version of several different tapes, totaling between one and two hours, discovered after the regime's collapse. The translations of the words heard on the tape were provided by the Department of Defense.
"You don't appreciate what happened in that prison until you see it."
The first film clip opens with the camera showing a man standing in a bland, mostly empty room. The camera pans down to show his right hand. Folded rugs are visible in the background. The clip jumps to footage of scrub-clad "surgeons" with rubber surgical gloves severing the man's hand at the wrist. First the skin is peeled away with surgical knives and tweezers; ligaments, tendons, muscle, and bone underneath are exposed. Then the gloved hands wielding the knives begin to slice, shredding through the sinews, slashing muscle, breaking bone, until the hand is ultimately detached and plopped onto a green cloth, as yellow, pulpy tissue spills forth...
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the descriptions alone are stomach turning....
That sounds cool!
The descriptions alone are not stomach turning. Can I get a copy of that tape? Maybe that will turn my stomach. :-)