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Titolo: Dopo la liberazione, gli Irakeni non devono piu' temere di essere portati via nel cuore della notte dalla polizia segreta di Saddam...

Ci pensano gli Americani!
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0709-06.htm
Families Live in Fear of Midnight Call by US Patrols 
by Daniel McGrory in Baghdad
 
 
NEVER again did families in Baghdad imagine that they need fear the
midnight knock at the door.
But in recent weeks there have been increasing reports of Iraqi men,
women and even children being dragged from their homes at night by
American patrols, or snatched off the streets and taken, hooded and
manacled, to prison camps around the capital.
Children as young as 11 are claimed to be among those locked up for 24
hours a day in rooms with no light, or held in overcrowded tents in
temperatures approaching 50C (122F).
On the edge of Baghdad International Airport, US military commanders
have built a tent city that human rights groups are comparing to the
detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Remarkably, the Americans have also set up another detention camp in
the grounds of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad. Many
thousands of Iraqis were taken there during the Saddam years and never
seen again.
Every day, relatives scuff their way along the dirt track to reach the
razor wire barricades surrounding Abu Ghraib, where they plead in vain
for information about the whereabouts of the missing.
The response from impassive American sentries is to point to a sign,
scrawled in red felt-tip pen on a piece of cardboard hanging on the
barbed wire, which says: "No visits are allowed, no information will
be given and you must leave."
Some, like Ghania Hassan, sink to their knees in despair. She holds a
photograph of her eldest son, Mohammed Yasim Mohammed, a 22-year-old
student. She said that he was walking through al-Shaab market with
friends when passing troops saw him eating biscuits from an American
military ration pack and accused him of being a looter. Allegedly he
was pushed face down on the street while his friends tried to explain
how a soldier a couple of streets away had given them the biscuits.
A month later nothing has been heard of the young man. His mother
showed a fistful of letters and petitions that she has collected from
US officials, local magistrates and a Muslim cleric, but she and the
rest of the complainants were told at gunpoint to move away from the
prison gates.
Such behavior merely fuels the growing hostility between local people
and the soldiers they had welcomed barely three months ago.
Families will naturally protest the innocence of their relatives, but
the accounts, such as that of Aliah Khadoum, who describes how her son
went out to buy cigarettes on June 1 and was arrested for breaking
curfew, are rarely allowed to be tested by the local magistrates, who
have begun daily court hearings in the capital.
Elizabeth Hodgkin, of Amnesty International, who has a bulging case
file of arrests, said: "I cannot believe the Americans are so stupid
and insensitive as to behave like this after all the trouble they have
had over Guantanamo Bay. They must treat their detainees humanely and
let them have visits from family and lawyers."
Amnesty claims that 80 minors have been detained, accused of petty
offences including writing anti-American graffiti or, in the case of
two teenage boys, climbing on the back of a US troop carrier to hitch
a lift through a main street in Baghdad.
One of the most disturbing incidents concerns Sufiyan Abd al-Ghani,
11, who was with his uncle in a car that was stopped near his home in
Hay al-Jihad at just after 10pm on May 27. The boy's father heard a
commotion and rushed outside to see him sprawled face down on the road
with a rifle muzzle pressed against his neck and US officers shouting
that someone in the car had shot at them.
Sufiyan was made to stay on the ground for three hours, while more
than 100 soldiers poured into the neighborhood, searching houses and
cars. Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his
back and a hood draped over his head. No weapon had been found. The
boy said that soldiers dug rifle butts into his neck and back and that
the first night he was handcuffed and left alone in a tiny room open
to the sky.
The following day he was moved to the airport, where he said for eight
days he shared a tent with 22 adults, sleeping on the dirt, with no
water to wash or change his clothes.
Sufiyan said that he was pulled from the tent one morning, hooded and
manacled again, and driven to Sarhiyeh prison, to be kept in a room
with 20 other youths aged 15 or 16 - regarded as minors by the Geneva
Convention.
A woman inmate took his name and details and when she was released she
alerted Sufiyan's family. On June 21, the family obtained an
injunction from a judge ordering the boy's release, but they were told
at the prison that the signature of an Iraqi judge no longer had legal
authority. Even when an American military lawyer demanded his freedom,
US troops refused to release him until the lawyer appeared at the
prison. Privately US military lawyers say that they are appalled at
how some of the arrests are being carried out.
At the gates of Abu Ghraib, frustration and anger force men such as
Adnan Akhjan, 38, a former civil servant, to shout abuse at the US
guards.
Mr Akhjan, whose 58-year-old father was arrested three weeks ago for
driving a truck with no doors or headlights, said: "People are so
sickened by what is happening they talk of wanting Saddam to come
back. How bad can the Americans be that in three months we want that
monster back?"
US officials say that they are struggling to cope with the continuing
looting, as well as attacks on troops. They say that until the
fledgling Iraqi police force is fully operational and jails are
repaired, they represent the only law and order.
Each morning at the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad there is a
silent line of Iraqis queuing to find out where a relative might be.
The American authorities have said that they will not inform the Red
Cross about detainees until 21 days after they have been arrested. The
International Committee of the Red Cross has been allowed to see some
of the prisoners, but says that it cannot even begin to guess at the
numbers detained.
An Iraqi exile who had been in Baghdad for only three days after
living in Denmark for the past 27 years found himself caught up in an
American swoop after a shooting in a street market. Not realizing that
the man could read English, his interrogator made no attempt to cover
up his case file, which described him as "suspected assassin".
The man, who was held for more than 30 days, is afraid to give his
name and says that he is now considering leaving Baghdad for good.
Copyright 2003 Times Newspapers Ltd.

 Ci pensano gli Americani!
Infatti non c'e' nemmeno un esempio di persone portate via di casa nel
pieno della notte :)
*LOL*
Ma come al solito l'importante e' fare disinformazione!!! :))
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Curati Stefano , che la mania di contraddizione , piu`il caldo soffocante ,
giocano brutti scherzi alla psiche .........ti ci vuole un po' di riposo ;
prenditi il secchiello e la paletta e vai a divertirti su qualche spiaggia
....mettiti un cappellino mi raccomando !!!
Giano

 ....mettiti un cappellino mi raccomando !!!
anche il secchiello se non hai il cappellino ... <g>
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 anche il secchiello se non hai il cappellino ... <g>
anche uno di quei DUREX extrasottile va` benissimo :)))
Giano

Giano wrote:
tacete antiamericani del cats !
Perchè non vi ciondolate nei servizi della Gruber sull'iraq chiamando in 
causa nientemeno che Gino Strada di Emercency noto esponente comunista, 
approposito lo sapete che i tanto volenterosi medici di emergency, senza 
nulla loro togliere in merito al grande lavoro di salvataggio di vite 
umane, vengono pagati fior di migliaia di Euro per il lavoro che fanno ? 
Certo in parte leggittimo in parte invece aihmè se permettete dubito lo 
facciano sempre le giuste ragioni...
Molto meglio invece Medici Senza Frontiere che stimo per il coraggio del 
loro lavoro e dedizione.
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DonJuan

 loro lavoro e dedizione.
#- Non capisco dove sta`la differenza tra questi e gli altri ....percio`per
non copiare SdC.....ipse dixit !
Rendimi edotto , please !
Giano

 non copiare SdC.....ipse dixit !
C'è un enorme differenza, Medici Senza Frontiere è un corpo di volontari 
che non vengono pagati fior di milioni come gli amici di Gino...e che 
riunisce medici di diverse vedute politiche..
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« C'è chi la fuma e chi se la spara in vena,
			a me basta un salto ! »
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 sofismi l'avresti compresa...
##--SOFISMI ? Mi piacerebbe sapere se qualcuno comprende questa tua frase !?
""""Certo in parte leggittimo in parte invece aihmè se permettete dubito lo
facciano sempre le giuste ragioni... """""
Che cacchio vuol dire ? magari se non te qualcun'altro potra`aiutarmi ??
Giano
Le nostre vite cominciano a finire il giorno in cui iniziamo a tacere sulle
cose che contano
Martin Luther King Jr.

 
Bella citazione usata indegnamente per quanto mi riguarda...
-- 
« C'è chi la fuma e chi se la spara in vena,
			a me basta un salto ! »
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 Bella citazione usata indegnamente per quanto mi riguarda...
Esatto , infatti io l'avevo messa solo per te .
Giano