More secret Iraqi prison sites revealed

[Barrett808]

Iraqi officials have named four additional prisons run by the Interior Ministry at which prisoners were secretly held and allegedly subjected to torture.

One of the detention locations was in a basement under the Baratha mosque, which was reclaimed from Sunni control by Shiites after the fall of Saddam Hussein, The Washington Times reported.

Other sites identified in a series of interviews by The Washington Times include part of the Al-Sha'ab Olympic stadium in Baghdad, the fourth floor in the Interior Ministry headquarters in Baghdad, and the Al-Nisoor (Eagles) Prison.

The newspaper reported Saturday that said more than a thousand people were also held at a prison in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad.

The only site confirmed thus far was in Baghdad's Jadriya district, which was raided by U.S. forces last month, the newspaper said.

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20051211-064151-8933r.htm

[RagingInMiami]

1. Message to the Iraqis

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

[VegasWolf]

2. Bush says, "Oil, gimme more OIL, gotta have OIL, Oil!!!"

[Eugene]

3. Let freedom reign!

Al-Sha'ab Olympic Stadium was Uday Hussein's old torture playground.
My how far things have progressed! This is sure to win many hearts and minds.
:sarcasm:

[wordpix2]

4. these torture prisons are really helpful in stopping the insurgency-NOT

[daleo]

5. Torturing people under a mosque?

That's pretty bad, if true. The stadium doesn't surprise me. Torturers seem to have a thing for sports stadiums.

[leftchick]

6. let's not forget who was in Iraq long enough to arrange the torture

and hit squad instructions.....

[EFerrari]

7. Negroponte hooked them up. Heckuva job.

And, in our name.

:nuke: