Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Hussein Claims Tortured.
"Oh, Dat's So Sad."
"I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body," he told the court," alleged the former dictator.
Others that testified about treatment under the Hussein regime included such tender tales of the benevolent Saddam Hussein:
One described how his entire family of 43 was rounded up and imprisoned.
Ali Mohammed Hussan al-Haydari was one of few witnesses who has testified publicly during the on-again, off-again trial that began two months ago.
Two other witnesses testified behind screens.
The witnesses told of intelligence agents shocking people with electricity and pouring melted plastic on people's flesh.
One said he had been tortured three times at intelligence headquarters, then sent to Abu Ghraib prison for over a year before being exiled to the desert for months.
After he was allowed to return home, he was seized afresh by intelligence agents and kept in solitary confinement until he pleaded with them to kill him.
BABY HUEY-SSEIN
"Look at the bruises on my body. Anyone can tell I am a baby. I mean, I was tortured."
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