oxdown.firedoglake.com - 12/23/2008
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...Montather told him that he was tortured with electric shock after being stripped naked, and that he was continuously humiliated and tortured throughout the period of detention, and that he had bruises all over his face and body, and that members of the Iraqi security forces disfigured his ...
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36 Hours of Torture - Thanks to Our Allies in Iraq
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... As Laura Doty mentioned over at Oxdown, more accounts of the abusive treatment of Al Zaida are appearing at the same time that Prime Minister Maliki is ...
More Reports That Al-Zaidi Was Tortured
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Via Firedoglake, a report from Laura Doty at Oxdown Gazette:
Raed in the Middle reports that al Zaidi’s brother visited him today and told the following to al-Baghdadia: ...
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