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Page 2 of 2 In Bucca there were 10 camps, Abu Ahmad says, "In each camp there are 20-25 tents, in each tent there is an average of 25 prisoners. The translator, an old Egyptian man called Abu Nasser, was a spokesman of the major. He was a big lire". But the real agony was Abu Greib. After the finger and retina prints, the prisoners were given numbers, and sent to cages, which they call Gancies (according to the pronunciation). There were eight of them, in each one there were 20-25 tents. The conditions were very bad, cold and damp in winter. Little water in summer, bad food, that many prisoners had dysentery. The water was very bad. Once the prisoners asked the guard to drink from their impure water, he refused. The food was rotten, "smelling bad that even animals would not eat". The boiled eggs were blue. (No food) was a regular collective punishment. Many prisoners had no visitors at all. - all those who were charged with jihad were tortured, even if it was not true.I saw one of them, he was very old forced to put on a red women underwear nothing else, and to go around in front of all the prisoners. Another one was forced to sleep with a woman guard, he refused, he was tortured until he did sleep with her, then she raped him with a special kind of belt that she put on and became like a man.. When he was returned to he was still bleeding. Another one was called Alla' Dambi, he had one finger in his right hand. His sisters were arrested too. They were screaming and calling him for help because they were raped. The female guards put their boots on men's heads, the soldiers would touch the dog, but would not touch an Iraqi prisoner, they had to put on gloves. Prisoners were hanged from their hands which were tied to the back, dogs bit them. Many of them admitted things that they did not do. There was a special kind of confinement, it is called the safe. There was no opening in it like a safe. I saw Mohammad, he was10 years, was crying all the time. In Eid Alfitr 2003( Fast breaking feast, after Ramadan), there was a demonstration for releasing the innocent prisoners. It was shot by plastic and real bullets. 13 prisoners were killed, the wounded were taken to the hospital, but never returned back. Prisoners who came from other prisons, like Al-Baghdadi, or the Disco prison talk about sever torture…{mosgoogle right} What are these? -Al-Baghdadi is the Qadissiya air base in the past, now it is an American military base. The Disco prison is a prison in Mosul where prisoners were tortured by too high music, to which they were forced to dance. But after the Abu Greib scandal the Gancies began to be emptied and the prisoners were sent to Bucca.When Abu Ahmad was arrested, he was told that he was going to be asked few questions and released immediately. He was never charged. A lawyer called Hussein the Lebanese, would routinely come every six months for an appeal. This is good, isn't it?- It would be if there is a charge. But if there is no charge what to appeal ! One of the prisoners insisted that he gets an appeal paper, so that he could know his charge. Hussein the Lebanese gave him any paper; the prisoner found that the name and the number are not his, Hussein told him to wipe them and put his own. Another prisoner who had a PHD, was asking about his charge, the guard asked him what do you want it to be? He said "a thief" sarcastically, and that what it was. Some prisoners do not get an appeal paper for a year. After Abu Greib scandal, it became every three months… Detainees in the Captive Country-I Recommend this article...
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