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To: kumar who wrote (97172)	5/1/2003 10:48:57 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 281500

Gruesome Methods of Saddam's Madness Posted April 28, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier The Iraqi Ba'athists patterned their party and their regime on that of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Insight has compiled a list of charges being made against the regime by many victims, human-rights groups and witnesses, and confirmed by records and confessions. They include the following: Electric shock with electrodes connected to body parts. Being forced to strip and sit on broken bottles or gas heaters. Hanging from a rotating ceiling fan and being struck by pipes. Burning with fire and branding with hot irons. Burning hands or feet with a soldering iron or boiling oil. Using a hammer to break noses and bones. Ripping out fingernails, toenails and teeth. Amputating limbs with a chain saw. Burning rectum with boiling water. Crucifixion by nailing ears and hands to cross. Dumping live bodies in acid baths or ovens. Attacks by wild dogs. Nailing tongues to a wooden board. Spraying eyes with insecticides. Raping and hanging women while forcing children and husbands to watch. Using hornets, wasps, spiders and scorpions to sting naked children while forcing parents to watch. Using an electric carving knife to cut off penis or breast. For more about the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein's regime, read Timothy W. Maier's cover story, "Horror Stories." insightmag.com

To: kumar who wrote (97172)	5/2/2003 5:48:10 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

many "injured" will wind up "dead" for one reason or another. They will all end up dead for one reason or another...So what is your point.

To: kumar who wrote (97172)	5/2/2003 11:00:11 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>doesnt matter "who was killed by who"<< Maybe not to you, but I venture to opine that to most people it does matter whether a person was killed in an accident or murdered in cold blood or killed in an act of deliberate but justified homicide. These legal distinctions are as old as law -- the very first legal systems all over the world made them -- there must be a reason, and that reason must be that it matters to our sense of justice and rightness in our relationship to society.