October 1, 2007


I think many have heard about the methods used for torturing prisoners or politic prisoners to take confessions from them , we heard about the Russian who was poisoned with Uranium , or what happened in Abu-Ghraib , but I don't think that many people know what the militias and AQ does to Iraqis not to take confessions from them or force them to do anything , but just to kill them and enjoy their death and cause the maximum grief and suffer to their parents and beloved , or maybe terrorizing the people even more and make the people wish that they die by a bullet or an explosion , it's a blessing now if an Iraqi dies by a bullet or an explosion. even death in Iraq isn't like anywhere else , those militias and AQ seems to enjoy killing and I think they look at it as an art or something , the more weird and savage the way they kill people in , the more creative they look at it , because as I said they look at it as an art!

the stories that I'm going to tell are real and they happened to people I know directly or from the people they know , that means that there are many other "creative methods" that I will not mention.

I'll start with a method that AQ and many other militias like the Mahdi-Army uses , which is the drilling and extraction , when they kidnap someone whether they ask for ransom or not ; in most cases he will be killed even if the ransom is paid , they use the drill "regular drill" to open holes in the arms , legs , chest , head and even eyes of the kidnapped.that's of course before they kill him because he will die by the drill , and in many cases before they use the drill they tend to use another method for the enjoyment because the kidnapped might die fast when they use the drill ; they use a pliers to extract his teeth and nails , and only god knows how painful to extract a tooth with a pliers , I think it even hurts more than the drill , because I know what to do to extract a tooth and what happens if these extraction procedures weren't done , I think many heard of this method , but I said it first because it's the most common and the nicest one among the others.

Another "punishment" , let's say , for anyone who works with the Americans or sometimes with the government is cutting the head by the sword , this is old and it became boring to them so they invented a new way ; they cut the head and open the belly of the victim by the sword , then they place his head in his belly and suture it after that they throw his dead body at the door of his house or somewhere near , this is what their nice guys do , sometimes they threw him in the garbage to be eaten by dogs!

My father's friend had a son (7 years old) who was kidnapped and they asked him for ransom (which was very big as he said but didn't say the exact amount) so he accepted to pay the ransom and he borrowed from everyone he knows and sold many things just to keep on his son's life , and after he paid them what they asked , they told him that his son will be at his door tomorrow , and they didn't lie! the next day the door bell rang and they went to see who's there because they were expecting their son coming back home , but they didn't find their son or anyone , they saw a very big covered dish infront of the door , when they opened it they saw their son's dead body grilled and placed on rice in the big dish just like the traditional Iraqi meal "Qoozi"! When I heard this story i wanted to throw up and couldn't eat meat for a weak and till this day I don't like Qoozy although it was one of my favorite meals.

and when I was in Syria I mentioned that my colleague dentist and friend in college was killed but since I was in Syria I couldn't know how , why or who killed him and as I returned to Baghdad I asked my friends about what happened and they told me that he was kidnapped and they asked his parents for ransom and after they gave it to them , they didn't hear anything from the kidnappers , they went looking for him everywhere , at last they found him in the forensic medicine building along with the unidentified dead bodies which are in tens every day , they found him with 30 bullet holes in his body , Oh dear friend how could his small body be enough for 30 bullets , he was so small , his name was fitting for both Shiites and Sunnis , he was a very nice man , he didn't have or caused any trouble through all the college years , he was a very good man , may god have mercy on his soul.

Yesterday a man from Anbar and from one of the strongest tribes there (Dulaimi) was killed in Raghiba-Khatoon where AQ is dominant. he was kidnapped first , he wasn't from the neighborhood , so they took him and killed him by making him drink "Teezab" which is concentrated H2SO4 in the Iraqi slungs, why did they kill him he is a Dulaimi Sunni , what do they have against him ? it's not about sect or religion anymore , it's about numbers of people they kill , the more they kill the more promotions and money they get , and by the way Raghiba-Khatoon is where I used to go shopping but it has been about a year and a half since the last time i went there , because it's one of the most dangerous areas in Baghdad it's way more dangerous that Adhamyia , and also in this neighborhood one of my neighbors was killed , he was a Sunni young man , recently married. he was with his wife in his car and they stopped them there and shot him in the head in front of his young wife , they simple put an end to a young, ambitious man's life and destroyed the life of at least two families.

Once before I started blogging I saw a video in one of my friends' laptop for a dead body of an old man being dragged by his beard through the streets of Alsadir city by member of Al-Mahdi Army or should I say thugs of Muqtada which seems more appropriate , he did nothing except that he was a Sunni , while they were dragging him they were hitting him with the sandals (which is the maximum humiliation in the Iraqi and Arabic culture) and they were spitting on him and kicking him , after some time of dragging and hitting his face couldn't be recognized because of the blood that covered it , the blood and dirt that covered his whole dead body , every human being dead body deserves respect no matter what he was , why this hatred , why this enjoyment in killing and taking lives ? if it's just for the money and number of people they kill , they can kill him with one shot in the head and the story is over , why do they do these things ?

It's not for the sect or even the religion , Islam is not like this , Islam is never like this , the other name of Islam is the religion of forgiveness , they are criminals and not any criminals they are the most twisted criminals hiding behind religion to convince stupid ignorant people of what they are doing , they are simply gangs , no more and no less.

Those stories , or should I say tragedies are a tiny fraction of what happens daily in Baghdad and Iraq in general , in the best days at least 10 unidentified dead bodies are found with another 10 identified , each one of them has a story needs to be told.

Warning:

here are some links to some victims of these gangs , it contains explicit violence and horrifying scenes , I wouldn't recommend people with soft feelings to watch them , that's why I made them as links.In the last one you will see a dead body hanging from the ceiling of Buratha Mosque which is the headquarter of Jalal Alsageer who is a high rank in Al-Daawa party and Badir brigade , you can see him standing there wearing the light-brown cloak and the others are also famous members in that party , this mosques is used as a torturing and killing place for the Sunnis by Al-Daawa party and this mosques is heavily guarded by the national guards and the ministry of interior's Commandos .

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after seeing those photos , I think many will agree with me that death isn't that bad if it was without such a brutal torture , as long as the one can be identified and buried respectfully!!??? it's too much to ask in Iraq , isn't it?