Former Iraqi Prisoner Says Allegations of U.S. Abuse Conform to His ExperienceBy Scheherezade Faramarzi Associated Press Writer
Published: May 3, 2004
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - A former Iraqi prisoner says the allegations that inmates at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison have suffered indignities at the hands of their American guards came as no shock to him.
In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Dhia al-Shweiri said he too was stripped naked during his stay in the prison and the humiliation was worse than the torture he endured under Saddam Hussein.
Now the 30-year-old is in the al-Mahdi Army, a militia fighting on behalf of an anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric. >snip<
"If Seyed Muqtada orders us to disband, we will. If he orders us to die, we will die. And if he tells us to live, we will live. We have nothing to do with the Americans and what they demand from us," al-Shweiri said.http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAF5J4BSTD.html What the hell are we doing there?