From a cage:
"Iraqi official vows to improve prisons; Better treatment, review are sought" by Kim Gamel/Associated Press August 19, 2007
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni vice president promised better treatment and a review for the inmates crowding the country's prison system in a video released yesterday showing a boisterous welcome from prisoners jammed inside tarp-covered cages.
In the visit Wednesday to the crowded eastern Baghdad prison, Tariq al-Hashemi said his moderate Sunni party was working to improve prison conditions and to free the innocent.... including the release of security detainees held without charges.
Rights groups also have complained about random detentions and overcrowding in Iraq's prisons. Most of the inmates are believed to be... innocent and have been held for long periods without charge.
Many of the prisoners, who were jammed into outdoor wire cages covered with tarps, shouted out complaints of mistreatment and prolonged detentions.
al-Hashemi, often crouching to address them face-to-face below the tarp that covered the upper half of the bars, told the prisoners:
"There is a new procedure in the works to review your files. Just be patient for a while. Those who are outside are not much better off than you. It is true that you are in prison, but at least you live in safety here, believe me you are more secure than those outside."
[Good Lord!! Yup, BE PATIENT, you are BETTER OFF in PRISON!
Then TAKE UP RESIDENCE in the cage, fucker!!!!
Yeah, it is better than being with your children and families, innocent Iraqi prisoner!
What SHIT-SPEW!!! DISGUSTING!!!]
The inmates pressed against the wire, shouting and whistling in appreciation.... Hashemi acknowledged innocent men were among them, but he also urged patience.
Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim said the Rusafa complex that Hashemi visited had been opened to relieve the overwhelmed prison system and it was supposed to take 4,000 inmates.
Ibrahim said: "The whole prison is groups of tents. Each tent is supposed to hold 30 people. The reason it is overcrowded now is that the construction has not yet been completed."
[Can't even rebuild prisons. Or are we MAKING MORE than Saddam had?
Oh, man, you talk about FAILURE!!
I'm sick of this ROTTEN, LYING, STINKING WAR!!!]
In violence yesterday, a string of mortar rounds slammed into Baghdad and surrounding areas as at least 30 people were killed or found dead nationwide. Those included 19 bullet-riddled bodies bearing signs of torture, apparent victims of sectarian death squads usually run by Shi'ite militias.
[See how they continue to promote the lies of cultural myths?
Bullet-riddled bodies and torture = Shi'ites!
'Course, it's a lie. Most likely Baghdad Option and Blackwater types!]
The deadliest mortar attack struck a residential area in the Shi'ite enclave of Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, with at least seven people killed and 18 wounded.
An Iraqi Army officer, who gave the casualty toll on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said a 4-month-old girl was among those killed and her mother was among the 18 wounded when about 16 mortar shells rained on the community, which is in the volatile Diyala Province and is a frequent target of suspected Sunni insurgents."
[Yeah, Diyala is the target of Sunni insurgents, thus mortars = Sunnis.
Never mind that we just sent 16,000 soldiers in there to clear out insurgents.
But AmeriKan armed forces don't use mortars. Oh, they do? Oh!
But the shit MSM will imply Sunni insurgents, even if they hadn't a clue as to who did this.
You know, it's amazing.
With all the military operations the U.S. runs in Iraq flushing people out, somehow the MSM leaves the impression that we never do anything, never kill anybody over there.
Just walking a beat until insurgents attack, right?
Such SHIT COVERAGE!!!!!!!!!!
And according to the Times, NO IRAQIS DIED yesterday, and their was NO VIOLENCE, either.
That's for the WEEK-ENDER SHIT-EATER!!
Tastes good, week-ender?]
