Its name has long been associated with torture, first under the regime of the late Saddam Hussein, and then under the rule of the Americans who toppled him.
Now, nearly five years after its role in one of the world’s biggest human rights abuse scandals, Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail has re-opened with a promise of decent conditions for inmates – including a gym, computer chatroom and hair salon.
The prison, which earned global notoriety in 2004 after US jailers filmed themselves tormenting and sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners, was shut down two years ago when America handed control of it to the new Iraqi government. Iraqi and US officials, who believed its closure would end what had become a symbolic rallying point for the anti-US insurgency, moved its inmates to another facility on the Kuwait border.
But yesterday, after a fresh lick of paint and extensive refurbishing, it officially opened its doors again, purporting to offer conditions more familiar to inmates of a prison in Scandinavia. As well as modern medical and dental facilities, there is a courtyard for visiting families that contains a children’s playground and water fountain. Inmates also have a mosque, and will be able to sew their own clothes in a small sewing factory. Mindful of its fearsome reputation, Iraqi officials in charge of the makeover have even changed its name from Abu Ghraib to Baghdad Central Prison.
“The prison is officially open and we have received inmates. Hundreds are present,” said prison director general Alsharif al-Murtadha Abdul al-Mutalib, who yesterday invited reporters to tour the jail, which is set behind watchtower-guarded walls in one of Baghdad’s western suburbs. It will eventually be home to around 14,000 prisoners.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 am
I wonder if the American FEMA camps have children’s playgrounds?
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
Why stop using a torture facility… when your not stopping the torture?
Why build a new place to butcher, torture and kill, when you already have a very good, proven place to torture?
Fema camps will be very well equipped, Big screen televisions, barbed wire pointing IN to keep you from getting out, large ovens to keep the bodies of the infected from contaminating the rest of you… armed guards, reconditioning rooms all bought and paid for by your tax dollars.
Fema has more powers given to it, than the Office of the President of the United States… just think long and hard on that.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
Hey, this is a more modern facility. It’s the Hilton of Baghdad, with new accommodations for the torturers and new improved facilities for modernized torture. You can’t get any better than this!
Even has Daycare for the employee kiddies, how nice.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
FEMA camps are the equivelant of a Motel 6 to the Hilton. Don’t expect extras for a discount rate!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:55 am
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new Boss! Same as the old Boss!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
why do my posts always get deleted when i dont even curse
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 am
Psalms 52:2-4, “Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.”
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Ah, the sweet absence of Christians and Christian behavior.
MitzyDawn Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Dream On !!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Psychological Operations Group dressed up that pig with a nice bow & lip gloss.
To have “Freedom” one needs lots & lots of prison beds!
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
What if you are all wrong and the NWO and it is going to be much better!!!
Imagine a world were no crime can exist because it is impossible to commit crime. For a start there is no money. You have a RFID chip under your skin and when you go to the pub and you reach a certain level of alcohol in your blood, your chip says you can’t be served another drink until your level drops. When you enter any premises you are scanned as you enter and there is no money on the property so what are you going to steal .. stock but what for, everyone has the same amount of everything. Your house is allotted to you from the government, all houses are pretty much the same, you do have some choice in the home. You never pay rent, it is simply your house to live in for as long as you live and you may change house if you chose at certain times in your life. You don’t have to worry about bills anymore as they no longer come in the post. You no longer spend most of your life struggling to pay the bloody mortgage. When you shop you simply fill in your shopping list on the fridge and every few days your grocers arrive. You are given a job to do in life which you do get some choice in but no longer is one person earning a fortune and the next man who does even more than him, earning next to nothing!
Your house is filled with stock items of which you do get to choose some colors and designs and every few years you do get to change many things in your home and the decor. Your clothes are fairly standard, just good quality easy care clothes. You are no longer a slave to fashion and buy clothes just because the whim of a few rich bastards telling you what you have is no longer in fashion. In many ways you are essentially free, your children are implanted in you and everyone is guaranteed to be perfect, the embryo was genetically tested and it is has been checked for faults and so no longer do you worry about giving birth to some poor unfortunate deformed child who is trapped in a less then perfect body. When you need medical help, it is free and you simply to to the doctor, or hospital and no bill is ever sent. The tennis club up the road is free and every other form of entertainment is free and you are allowed to go to a certain number of shows every year of which you get to choose which ones you wish to attend, or maybe even you get to see them all.
Now tell me, is that not better….. what are you all complaining about!!!!!
TRUTH Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 am
You obviously know nothing of the NWO…Do you understand that the elites are practicing Luciferian teachings? Their “fantasy NWO” is what they will sell us, but that is not the true agenda. Don’t be deceived, there is only ONE truth.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Always heartwarming to see that a cage has been gilded.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Heard human sacrifice was a form of Satan worshipping, is that true?
Charles Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
No my friend,
Human Sacrifice is not a part of any real Satanic ritual, just boogie tales for the Christians to scare their kids with.
Real Satanist, are more Maslow than Jeffery Dahmer. Maslow and humanism, are the foundations of Modern Satanism, and at no point is it ever ok to sacrifice a human, in a ritual.
These notions got put out there, because corrupt POPE’S in the early 14 -17th centuries were the only people who had Black Magick Grimoires, like Pope Honorus … and these corrupt and wicked Popes created blasphemies appalling to their god, in hopes of pleasing the demons they were summoning.
The really funny thing, is the Demons they conjured, laughed at these Pope’s, and came up with all forms of horrible atrocities for these Pope’s to commit, so that their souls would never be saved.
The Christian church, and the Catholic Church in particular, created Human Sacrifice, for the most part, out of their own hunger for power, sex, and depravity.
Brings to mind the saying, Physician save thy self.
Charles Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Look it up in Google, if you wish…
Here’s a cut and paste…
The Constitution of Pope Honorius the Great, where in may be found the Arcane Conjurations which must be used against the Spirits of Darkness. With a Collection of the Most Rare Secrets. Rome, 1670.
The Grimoire of Honorius is a catalogue of fallen angels and how to raise them. The book is credited to Pope Honorius III, who succeeded Pope Innocent III in 1216, and was a prolific writer of theological works. The Grimoire of Honorius is full of Christian benedictions and formulae. “It not only instructed priests in the arts of demonology but virtually ordered them to learn how to conjure and control demons, as part of their job.” It is recommended that the sorcecer wrote the grimoire with his own hand to obtain the power of the spells.
TRUTH Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 am
human sacrifice is real, and is still being practiced. look at the 9/11, and how there were 3 Illuminati designed buildings surrounding it… They usually sacrifice a innoncent soul to their deities, or fallen angels, this pleasing them and in return they give the Illuminati insight to their agenda, and guidance through the astral plain. They achieve this communication by means of meditation through the minds eye, any “spirit” that is communicated upon in this state are Demonic, since its a universal law for any extra dimensional entity to cross over to our plain, so this blatantly says that these “spirits” are rebels to Gods laws.
Like the Egyptians and Romans human sacrifice has always been a practice, and it still is, for our Elite leaders, and the ancient bloodlines have never died
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Why not build them a theme park too?
Make a commercial with the next Olympic athlete from Iraq.
Now that you have won the gold medal in holding your breath underwater what are your plans??
“I’m going to Sunny TortureLand to become a water ride.”
The playground just means they want the people they torture to be happy after wards too.
You can play on the playground for 5 more minutes..then you need to come in and do your Rumsfield exercises of standing all day blind folded holding electrical wires.
The Jews were impressed when the Germans would actually give them real showers instead of the gas. They just never knew when which was being served.
Talk about screwing with someone’s mind. Must be confusing to be playing in the playground and then being tortured.
Told we don’t want to hurt you, and then water boarded.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Some people have no empathy for anybody. Not even children.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
John 8:39-47
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You Are of Your Father the Devil
39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Jew
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 am
GREAT VIDEO!
Something to tell the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT8cg62iKyg