Friday, November 18, 2005

Shiites: OK. There Were Signs of Torture

LATimes: Iraq's Shiite Muslim interior minister Bayan Jabr sought Thurs to justify the actions of security forces accused of starving and beating 169 mostly Sunni prisoners, saying that the prisoners had been legally arrested based on proper evidence and documents. Jabr added that in many cases, the prisoners were terrorists who had killed scores of innocent Iraqi children. (If the evidence indicates that they did kill scores of innocent Iraqi kids, then please-- convict them of these crimes and punish them-- but you don't torture them.) Jabr defended detaining these prisoners while acknowledging that at least 7 of the detainees had been tortured: "OK, there were signs of torture. And for that we will punish those responsible. But there were no killings and no beheadings, as some have said." Ohhhh... so no beheadings = nice kind of torture, huh? And then The Pot called The Kettle black: The US Embassy, however, reacted sharply, issuing a statement that warned, "Even 1 case is too much, anywhere, at anyplace and anytime, in Iraq." I know... try not to laugh outloud at that one.
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