This was police station operated by the Saddamites. Not really very portable, but obviously if you are a true believer, a case of anthrax isn't as portable as a police station made of stone.
Of course, without the CIA, the Saddamites would all be 3rd grade teachers, but what can you expect from the US?
The Daily Mirror has consistently been against the war. Here are some more excerpts from its reporter's story.
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"A damp, 8ft by 4ft hole with no natural or artificial light and just a soiled pillow and filthy blanket on the floor."
"It was one of six, some bigger, some even smaller, sealed by bolts from the outside attached to heavy metal cage doors. And all of them disgustingly filthy."
"In one, a meat hook hung from the ceiling, in another a thick line of hose pipe sat on the floor, with no water taps for it to attach to anywhere in sight."
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Confirmation came in an upstairs room, the contents of which made us shudder.
There were two rubber car tyres and a long electric lead attached to the mains - still live.
Then, in another part of the station, there were the bundles of Iraqi citizens' ID cards spread across the Chief of Police's abandoned large oak desk.
It is a jailable offence not to carry the cards and we stopped to wonder why these men, aged between 20 and 50, did not need theirs. Although we probably knew the answer.
The IDs had been found in a drawer, gathering dust, and looked like the officer's sick personal collection.
ONE marine chief who had spent time in the Balkans on UN service told us his thoughts on the tyres and cable.
He said: "This is something we came across a lot in Bosnia.
"The interrogator would stand on the tyres while prodding the captive with the live cable. His own feet were insulated from the high voltage by the rubber.
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The cells all stank of old faeces, urine and sweat. Spatters of dark liquid left stains down several walls, but they were too dirty and old for us to tell if it was blood.
Only one, the biggest, had the very roughest approximation of a toilet in it, a squat hole in the ground that judging by the dark, putrid gunge over-flowing from it hadn't been flushed in months.
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NONE of the crowd gathered outside to watch the men smash their way in wanted to speak about the place either.
Instead, they looked at their shoes when we tried to find out more from them.
Only after darkness fell did a man in his 30s approach 40 Commando's headquarters in an old Iraqi army barracks on the outskirts of town.
He gave his name as Dofia Abdullah and insisted he had important information the troops must act on.
Dofia said: he said: "The Ba'ath Party were bad people, they used to hurt people inside the police station.
"You say bad words about Saddam, they take you in there and you never come out.
"Everybody knew not to ask what happen to them there, then they disappear too. The Mukhabarat, they work in there also."
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I suppose, Pete, Saddam's secret police - the Mukhabarat - are really CIA, or perhaps trained by the CIA.
This guy is thoroughly bad, so don't allow your objections to the war to spill over into other areas. Objections are valid - making up things as you go along perhaps not so.
Harry ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Gee. However did Inspector Clouseau, Hans Blix, ever miss this as he and >his hapless helpers trundled around Iraq?
First, they spent most of their time in Baghdad. Second, they were looking for weapons, not torture chambers, which are pretty portable things anyway. And is anyone in the world actually surprised by this in the least, other than the hypothetical imaginary Baathist sympathizers caricatured by the opponents of cautious and lawful means of extraction of US-installed puppet-dictatorships-gone-bad. I bet there have been thousands of those rooms all over the globe over the last half century with CIA operatives sitting quietly outside the door, awaiting the results. Perhaps twenty years ago, in that building itself.
I bet the young arabs across the world now aspiring to grow up and murder american religious imperialists won't be swayed by this revelation in the least.
-Pete Vincent
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