Former Prisoners Speak Out on Torture at Abu Ghraib • BRAVE NEW FILMS
Because private military contractors hired unqualified translators for intelligence gathering and interrogations, many innocent people (mothers, taxi drivers, pizza delivery drivers) were taken...
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I received a telephone call um, from a Mr.
Saller. He said uh, can you help me, he said,the Americans took my
money and they hurt me very bad um, and Ijust came from Abu Ghraib. He told me of one
incident where um, uh, you know, he was uh,stripped nude and um, they tied a rope to
his penis uh, with 7 or 8 other men. And thenthey would um, these were American personnel
he’s telling me. Um, and they would pushone man and all of them would fall and then,
and they’d be joking and laughing and mockinghim. I would ask him, who is doing this to
you,Mr. Saller? And he would say, well, they were,
they were two types of people, one was dressedsome type of military personnel wear in the
Army. And then the other type would be incivilian
clothing. I go, what do you mean, civ...