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Iraq Secret Police Back in Business

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday November 30, 2005 10:41author by saoririseoirauthor email saoririseoir at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

abduction, torture, 'disappeaing' and killing of countless

Nov 25th: Police diver finding mutilated bodies in Tigris River. (podcast will probably expire on Friday December 2nd), but will try to put up mp3 link in comments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/outlook.shtml#Fri
This BBC World Service magazine programme called Outlook, is soft news normally, but at the end of this interview, the police diver lets it be known that he has lately been finding many mutilated corpses in the River Tigris.

NYT Report, November 27th.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/ZNYT03/511290451
Sunnis say that hundreds go missing.

A prominent incident on November 24th.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m18184&date=26-nov-2005_22:24_ECT
Sunni clan leader and three sons openly assassinated in baghdad by uniformed police.

author by Saoririseoirpublication date Fri Dec 02, 2005 01:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ali Khalaf is the diver who was broadcast via phone and translator on the BBC World Service, Friday, November 25th, 2005.

"…today it’s so normal for me to find bodies. If I had the duty I’d just go and do it; and it doesn’t worry me at all. Me and my colleagues, we even compete over who is going to go and getteth.

Now, most of the bodies we collect from the river are people who’ve been tortured. We find people with amputated limbs and gauged out eyes. We don’t know who’s done it, but the bodies have signs of torture; that’s for sure.

The Work is tough, but I’m determined to continue…"


[I have the extract on .mp3 but don't want to set precedent of putting BBC audio on radio.indymedia, even if only 33 seconds of it.]

 
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