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In Letters, Saddam Wrote of US 'Beatings'

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(May 5) - In newly released letters, Saddam Hussein complained of being tortured while in U.S. detention.
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The former Iraqi dictator, who was executed in 2006, apparently penned the two missives shortly after he was caught in Iraq by American forces in December 2003. The letters were among a trove of documents in Saddam's declassified FBI file, according to New York's Daily News.
Saddam wrote of "beatings that I have received following my capture," in which "not a single part of my body was spared of the severe harm that was inflicted by the detention gang."
He also said that "I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart who can sleep amidst the screams of the tortured and the many blows of the doors and the squeaking sounds of the chairs."
Saddam's allegations of torture aren't considered credible by U.S. experts, the Daily News reported.
Go to the Daily News to read more about Saddam's letters.
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Babsdance

06:19 PMMay 05 2009

Danielistical 06:13 PMMay 05 2009 Obama has already ordered a draw down of troops in Iraq,,,,,@@@Yep...and part of that "draw down"...is sending troops from Iraq directly to Afghanistan...with no R&R...and no leave. hum....

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Luckfibs

06:18 PMMay 05 2009

Mac2jr 06:12 PMMay 05 2009 The leader of a free nation that did not attack the U.S.A. is killed by the U.S.A. and its backers, then 2,000,000 of his countrymen are made homeless, another 60,000 killed=============================================================they arent here whiing about it ; you are.

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Zany to the maxx

06:17 PMMay 05 2009

HEY LUCK....you can go oline and check out the figures. The point is, these people would have not died and Americans would not died in Iraq if GWBush had not lied to the people and started the bush war in Iraq because his father was criticized because he did not take out Saddam when he had the chance. Check out GWBush's grandfather, Prescott, who helped finance Hitler and the nazis. The apple did not fall far from the tree here. Sean Hannity said your friends define you. Bush liked his grandfather and as soon as he got the chance invaded another country and like Hitler could not finish the job and left Obama with the worst economy since Hoover

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Danielistical

06:17 PMMay 05 2009

Aug,2001,,, Bush's month long vacation interupted by ugent intel. breifing,, ,,, Osama bin Laden determuined to strike in the US,,,, which bush promptly ignored,, while planning to attack Iraq,,,,,,

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Luckfibs

06:16 PMMay 05 2009

angry lib losers becoming unglued r funny!!! tee hee!!

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Babsdance

06:15 PMMay 05 2009

Septsonge 06:13 PMMay 05 2009 Luckfibs 06:08 PMMay 05 2009 Septsonge 06:04 PMMay 05 2009 I thought I smelled horse shiiitt. ==============================================then your mom walked in. ............................................... No asss hole it was you and your stinky shiitt idiology that is resisting the improvements. Your kind is horse shiit and garbage for ever and ever,. You love to be called name because you love that.fuccking idiot, stupid.@@@Why do you support one side of the aisle on some posts...and the other side of the aisle on another? Just curious about that...

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Luckfibs

06:15 PMMay 05 2009

The first President to see a memo warning islamic terrorists might use airplanes to knock down the World Trade Center was Bill Clinton; in HIS OWN After-Action Review just one month after the 1993 WTC attacks. Yet a RELATED CREW came here starting just one or 2 years after the first attack and started training for the deed that they carried out on 9-11. They were taking flying lessons and plotting righit put in the open on clinton 's watch unoticed.

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Septsonge

06:13 PMMay 05 2009

Luckfibs 06:08 PMMay 05 2009 Septsonge 06:04 PMMay 05 2009 I thought I smelled horse shiiitt. ==============================================then your mom walked in. ............................................... No asss hole it was you and your stinky shiitt idiology that is resisting the improvements. Your kind is horse shiit and garbage for ever and ever,. You love to be called name because you love that.fuccking idiot, stupid.

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Danielistical

06:13 PMMay 05 2009

Obama has already ordered a draw down of troops in Iraq,,,,,

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Mac2jr

06:12 PMMay 05 2009

The leader of a free nation that did not attack the U.S.A. is killed by the U.S.A. and its backers, then 2,000,000 of his countrymen are made homeless, another 60,000 killed, another 300,000 lose limbs, a half-million are made religious refugees, and the U.S.A. ends up putting the same people who worked for the leader in charge of the millions. Sounds like a win - win.

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