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When testimony began, the first witness told the court she was arrested several days after the 1982 assassination attempt on Saddam. She said her interrogators removed her Islamic headscarf and gave her electric shocks to her head.
"I thought my eyes would pop out," she said. Sixteen other members of her family also were arrested, and seven of them were killed in detention - including her husband, who she said was tortured.
She said two of the defendants remaining in the courtroom - Ali Dayih Ali and Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid - were among those who arrested her. The two defendants denied the accusation.
A second woman gave similar testimony Sunday, saying she saw women tortured after she was detained. "I have seen things that I could not have believed. Children crying and mothers tortured. I've seen a blind girl crying while she was being tortured," she said, sobbing.
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And where did I find this? At the bottom of an AP story. Almost an afterthought. Because Sadaam walking out of his trial took too many inches, I suppose. We don't really need to know why he's on trial, do we? I mean, testimony like the above can be so hard on a persons sensibilities.
I guess we should be happy we have CNN to remove the victims voices entirely. After all, they know better than us what we should be hearing. Keep in mind this is the same network that admitted to overlooking Sadaam's attrocities so they wouldn't get booted out of Iraq while he was in power.
Those of you that have read any of the stories. Did you even know there was testimony? The American Press is ignoring the stories of these victims in favor of a brutal dictator spouting nonsense. |
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And why does Saddam get more copy inches than the atrocities that took place under his rule and described in court? Because he's a celebrity. I'm not defending this, I'm just saying... Saddam is in the limelight. He's got name recognition throughout the world, and people are interested in him. This trial's taking place to bring him to justice, and the media's interested in stressing that aspect of the trial. Not the atrocities themselves.
Hell, the AP story in today's Beacon Journal didn't even mention the testimony. I suppose they had to crop out the end of the story because of length... then again, today's Beacon's front page was just plain weird. The largest story was some human interest story about a diner owned by Steelers fans... in Lisbon, Ohio, down around where I grew up. No idea *how* that ended up in the Akron paper... | |
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