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From: "daisy meme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grisly truth of police station's real purpose http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=386162003 EVERYTHING the marines of 40 Commando saw inside the police station in Abu al-Qassib suggested that it wasn't really a house of law and order but had been used instead to torture possibly hundreds of civilians. Towards the end of the long building's left corridor, we found the first cell. A damp, 8ft by 4ft hole with no natural or artificial light, and only a soiled pillow and filthy blanket on the floor. It was the first of six. Some were bigger, some even smaller, but all were sealed by bolts from the outside attached to heavy metal or steel cage doors, and all were disgustingly filthy. They all stank terribly of old faeces, urine and sweat. Spatters of dark liquid had left stains down several walls, but they were too dirty and too old to tell whether the liquid was blood. In one cell, a meat hook hung from the ceiling. In another, a discarded thick line of hosepipe sat idle on the floor, with no water taps anywhere in sight. Only one cell, the biggest, had in it the roughest approximation of a toilet - a squat hole in the ground that, judging by the dark, putrid gunge over-flowing from it, hadn't been flushed in months. In a side annexe that had been missed, hidden away behind the main building and with all its old window spaces long ago filled in with breeze-blocks, was a far larger cell with a single iron bed frame in it. We moved upstairs to find more offices, most cluttered up with old green uniforms, half-eaten plates of freshly cooked food, and boxes of grenades and other heavy ammunition. One office contained a locked armoury that the marines shot open to reveal a huge stash of AK47s, rocket-propelled grenades and missile rounds - far too much weaponry just to police a civilian population. But the last room was upstairs, again at the end of a corridor, and initially it left those who saw it totally bewildered. Unlike every other room on the second floor, it was empty, apart from two old rubber car tyres and a long electric cable lead attached to the mains supply, and still live. The room's likely purpose was explained later by a Royal Marine officer who had spent some time in the Balkans on UN service. He said: "Two tyres and an electric cable is something we came across a lot in Bosnia. The interrogator would stand on the tyres while prodding the captive with the live cable so his own feet were insulated from the high voltage by the rubber. Primitive, maybe, but a pretty effective and recognised form of torture in a lot of third-world countries. "Electrocution is not only incredibly painful, but also very frightening, and the interrogators usually get more out of the shock effect of it than the actual pain the burns cause." The officer is usually more than happy to talk on the record. But this time he didn't want his name used, so that he didn't have to explain what he had seen to his wife back home. The one positive outcome of the search was that it produced a pile of detailed maps showing possible secret paramilitary strongholds - that could be good for intelligence purposes. The normally jovial and chatty troop of commandos filed out of the building and blocked the police station's doors behind them in total silence. Very little was said between us on the 30-minute patrol back to base either. For once, each man seemed to prefer to be alone with his thoughts. Corporal Dominic Conway, 28, from Newcastle, who supervised the search, said later: "It was a horrible, gruesome place. They weren't policemen in there - not like we understand the term." >From a pooled report by Tom Newton Dunn, of the Daily Mirror, with 40 Commando in Abu al-Qassib, southern Iraq. ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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