Iraqi Victim Says U.S. Torture Worse Than Saddam [View All]

truly, truly a sad and embarassing mark on America ....


FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A former inmate at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.

The inmate testified at the court martial of reservist soldier Charles Graner, accused ringleader of guards who engaged in the abuse, which prompted outrage when pictures of the sexual humiliation were published around the world.

"I couldn't believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could kill myself because no one was there to stop it," Hussein Mutar, who was sent to Abu Ghraib accused of car theft, said in videotaped testimony.

"They were torturing us as though it was theater for them," he said, as the prosecution wound up its case against Graner on assault, dereliction of duty and other charges that could bring him up to 17 1/2 years in prison. An obviously ill-at ease Mutar added: "I was extremely emotional because (even) Saddam didn't do this to us."

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