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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (3155)	11/17/2025 3:22:20 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 3193

That was a beast, and fortunately gone now. ....The prison was built by Western contractors in the 1960s. The size of a small town, the prison was divided into five different compounds. [6] Under the government of Saddam Hussein the facility was under the control of the Directorate of General Security (Al-Amn al-Amm) and was the site of the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners—up to 4,000 prisoners are thought to have been executed there in 1984 alone. [4] During the 1990s human rights organization Amnesty International documented repeated events where as many as several hundred inmates were executed in a single episode. These included hundreds executed in November 1996, and several hundred members of the Shi'a denomination killed in 1998 and 2001. Amnesty reported that it could not produce a complete picture of events at the prison due to government secrecy. [7] It was also the reputed location of Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder. [8] The section for political inmates of Abu Ghraib was divided into "open" and "closed" wings. The closed wing housed only Shi'ites. They were not allowed visitors or any outside contact. Coalition prisoners were held and tortured in Abu Ghraib during the Gulf War, including the British Special Air Service patrol Bravo Two Zero." The prison held as many as 15,000 inmates in 2001.... en.wikipedia.org This the designer? ...Abu Ghraib, designed by an American architect, Edmund Whiting, and built by British contractors in the late 1960s, occupies a site of nearly 280 acres about 15 miles west of Baghdad. ... nytimes.com nytimes.com ST is a pipsqueak in comparison, and not as fatal, but just as brutal.