Electrical Torture Room in Nassyria Seems True

The development of the weapon of mass destruction, torturing and murdering, abuse of power and graft… How much is true about the rumors circling the Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq?

Following the Allies seizing most of the primary cities of Iraq, the truth about the various rumors about the Hussein regime one by one are becoming clear.

* Suppression of Human Rights = It has been clarified that majority part about the torture as well as the suppression of human rights were true. In southern region of Nassyria, a one-story building has been found which looks like was used as the torture room by the security force of Bat sect. There were electrical torture systems such as an electric generator with handles in the five solitary barred cells. Among the list of residents to be closely watched, pictures of children were also included.

In the northern city of Basra, a prison of the secret policy, which is known as ‘a place hard to get out of once dragged in’ has been revealed. “They whipped all of my body with a leather lash and also have beaten me hanged upside down,” stated a citizen who had been dragged into the prison with his brother and barely made it out alive alone. According to the testimonies, there also were incidents of killing prisoners with electrical shocks, putting the body in chemical substances with pulling out the fingernails and toenails, ironing the backs as well as pouring boiling water.

* Weapon of Mass Destruction = The U.S. Army has sent out three teams equipped with mobile research centers to carry out the investigation on the weapon of mass destruction and have searched various places suspicious of being chemical weapon production systems but yet have presented any definite proofs. However, there have been some leading evidences such as a script founded at a headquarter of Bat sect located in the southeastern part of Baghdad on how to deceive the U.N. Weapon Inspectors along with the founding of the concentrated substances of poison and mustard gas in the Euphrates River. The U.S. Army is planning to have precise investigation of the 400-targeted places through out the regions of Iraq as soon as the war ends.

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