Pleading prisoners/families outside protest horrors of Abu Ghraib jail

[kskiska]

The American soldiers standing guard outside Abu Ghraib prison could have been under no illusions yesterday as to what Iraqis thought of them.

Normally, the dusty car park in front of the prison is full of downtrodden relatives, waiting for news of their loved ones inside. Yesterday, however, hundreds of demonstrators turned up as well.

They included clerics in impressive white turbans, students, engineers taking the day off, children in flip flops - all of them outraged by the torture of Iraqi prisoners next door.

The crowd that set off from Abu Ghraib's roadside mosque at 11am carried no weapons.

They were armed, however, with several devastating chants: "America where are human rights?", "Bush, Bush, go to hell" and "America is the enemy of Allah". And they carried posters in English: "You have given a bad impression of America and Christians" and "US army go home" as well as the old Iraqi flag.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1210545,00.html

[Tansy_Gold]

1. "Bush, Bush, go to hell!"

Echoing the fervent pleas of many Americans, as well.

[greenleaf]

2. During the Saddam era

didn't the friends and families of those that had disappeared also wait outside those very same gates for news about those inside?

[cliss]

3. Ironic as it may seem, the Iraqis

might be safer inside the Abu Ghraib prison right now. As I see it, no one would dare touch the inmates, with all the trouble it's stirred up worldwide. Apparently, the new prisonkeeper is going to invite the Red Cross in and another oversight organization. Let's hope that's true.

People are still getting shot outside the prison, though.

[thebigidea]

6. yeah, much safer. especially with the regular mortar rounds, huh?

Geez.

[burrowowl]

4. I guess Boo$h's interview didn't go well

"Would an apology from President George Bush satisfy him? "We wouldn't accept it," he said. "He is not sincere. He is a liar."

And the kidnapping of Indians, in the same article:

"· The US embassy in India said yesterday it was investigating reports by four Indians that they were taken against their will from Kuwait by US troops to work in an army camp in Iraq. Abdul Aziz Shahjehan said the camp, which he could not name, often was the target of missile attacks by Iraqi fighters: "When I refused to work and told an officer that I wanted to go back, he beat me up."

The Indian government has demanded an explanation from Washington. State department spokesman Richard Boucher said: "We will do our best to find out the facts of the matter."

WHO IN THE WORLD IS NOT PISSED AT THE U$A? Rushlimberger, FAUX et al.

Here is hoping Boo$h doesn't get pissed an nuke the world.
God help us please!

[IndianaGreen]

5. The Guardian reporter was not allowed on the tour!

Inside the prison, US military officials were escorting a handpicked group of reporters around. They refused to allow the Guardian in, but took Fox News and other US networks to cell block 1A where the photographs had been taken.

The American press is too cowardly to pursue this story all the way to the Pentagon and the White House. I find it amazing that the American media has not followed up on General Karpinski's allegations on the Debrah Norville Show Tuesday night that General Sanchez was the one that signed the orders turning that cell block to military intelligence and the contractors.

We have become the Fourth Reich!

[gottaB]

7. WaPo Covers the Prisoners' Protests

Rage Is on Display During Prison Tour