Abu Ghraib prisoner prefers Saddam's torture to the US kind

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/02/international1342EDT0504.DTL

Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and
once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards,
he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Al-Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam's regime, he was electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his
hands tied behind his back.

"But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said. "Shoot me here," he added, pointing between
his eyes, "but don't do this to us."

For months, human rights groups and former prisoners had complained of mistreatment at detention centers but their
protests were widely dismissed as politically motivated until the U.S. command started an investigation in January.
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He said the Americans arrested him along with his father and brother in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in
Baghdad, accusing him of belonging to the al-Mahdi Army because he had an automatic weapon in his house and
some headbands with Islamic sayings on them. His father
and brother were released shortly after the arrest.

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