Images depict al-Qaida torture techniques
Pentagon-released documents reveal horrors of 'safe
house'
Posted: May 24, 2007
7:30 p.m. Eastern
Editor's Note: Images in the following, and in the link, are
graphic.
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A depiction of drilling through a victim's hand
The Pentagon has released graphic images that reportedly were
obtained by U.S. military personnel in a raid on an Iraqi safe
house, showing prescribed methods of torture for victims, including
dragging a victim behind a vehicle and amputating limbs with a meat
cleaver.
The images [warning, they are graphic] have appeared on the Smoking
Gun website and others, and participants in a chat forum at Jihad
Watch simply noted that the treatments depicted, from using a
blowtorch on human skin to extracting an eye with a sharp tool,
make it clear the U.S. use of any coercive methods on inmates isn't
even in the same league.
"The pictures
are worth
100,000 words in knowing the creatures
behind the events," wrote Lame Cherry. "This
is what real torture
looks like and not what the MSM was trying to portray in people
standing in a cell naked being humiliated as 'torture.'"
A depiction of dragging someone behind a vehicle
Reports say the images, which include a depiction of a bound man in
a chair with his head in a vise, were discovered during a recent
raid on an al-Qaida safe house in Iraq.
The soldiers, along with the images, also found an assortment of
various instruments of torture, ranging from meat cleavers and
whips to wire cutters.
The images were just declassified by the Department of Defense,
reports said, and also include a photograph of the Baghdad safe
house described as a "torture chamber" used by al-Qaida.
During the raid, reportedly on April 24, U.S. soldiers also found a
man suspended from the ceiling by a chain and were able to release
him. Military reports said he was abducted from his job and had
been beaten daily by his captors.
Coalition forces also freed another five Iraqis who were found just
a few days ago in a padlocked room in Karmah, and photographs of
some of their injuries also were released.
Torture injuries to a man's back
"All of us can be fairly certain that whatever torture used by the
United States government is likely to be mild (if there is any used
at all), at least in comparison with anything al-Qaida is likely to
come up with," Pythagoras added on the Jihad Watch website.
Jihad Watch is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and
is run by Spencer, the author of "The Truth About Muhammad" and
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the
Crusades)."
His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the "New
York Post," the "Washington Times," the "Dallas Morning News,"
Canada's "National Post," "Middle East Quarterly," "WorldNetDaily,"
and others.
Tools of torture hanging on a wall
He's also led seminars on Islam and jihad for United States Central
Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, a
Department of Homeland Security task force, and branches of the
Joint Terrorism Task Force.
"I wonder if the Left is going to protest this, or if Amnesty
International will visit the al-Qaida headquarters in Pakistan and
request an explanation," added Ameriki on the Jidah Watch
blog.
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The images graphically show the technique for blowtorching a
victim, how to suspend a victim from the ceiling with a rope while
having him wired for electrocution, how to suspend a victim by his
wrists bent backwards over the top of a door, and how to use rods
to beat a victim's feet.
Using a heated clothes iron on unprotected skin and suspending a
victim from the ceiling for a whipping also are portrayed.