Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Abu Ghraib detainees fed rotten food by contractor. Rotten food crawling with bugs, traces of rats and dirt. Rancid meats and spoiled food resulting in diarrhea and food poisoning. This is what detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were regularly given to eat by a private contractor in late 2003 and early 2004, causing anger to swell to a furious boil between the U.S. military guards and the prisoners. Foul as the food was, there never was enough. The private contractor, run by an American civilian who was subsequently killed, routinely fell short by hundreds of meals for Abu Ghraib's surging prison population. When the food did arrive, there were often late and frequently contaminated. So went another sad chapter in the story of the Abu Ghraib prison, where U.S. military personnel and private contractors would make headlines and ignite international outrage over allegations of torture psychological abuse in May of this year. (link) Just when you think it can't get any worse, some new revelation comes out. [Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs] There is a good side in this story, rather unusually. The man who ran this operation for this was killed, apparently by Iraqi rebels, making this quite probably the only time anyone connected with Abu Ghraib actually got what was coming to him. 1:06:46 PM    comment () A Message from the Iraqi Resistance. Editor's Note: The following message began to circulate via various sites yesterday (December 13th,2004). We at Rational Review have satisfied ourselves that it is authentic and that it represents the sentiments of a real Iraqi resistance, rather than of any international terrorist organization or other actual enemy of the United States. With the exception of one reference to "Zionism" and one to "globalism" (references that are not unusual in Arab communiques), it appears to be a reasoned ap [Rational Review] I haven't seen anything on where this came from, but it's consistent with what I've read from various noncombatant Iraqis. I particularly like the closing: And to George W. Bush, we say -- you have asked us to bring it on, and so have we, like never expected. Have you another challenge? 12:48:16 PM    comment ()

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