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Shocking Report Exposes Syria’s 27 Torture Centers: ‘We Made Them Suck Their Own Blood Off The Floor’

A report released today by Human Rights Watch reveals the existence of 27 detention facilities in Syria, where prisoners are brutally tortured and forced to endure unspeakable horror. Former detainees and defectors have identified the locations, torture methods used and even some of the commanders who ran the torture centers.

Human Rights Watch argues the systemic patterns of ill-treatment and torture in the Syrian detention centers indicate a clear-cut case of a crime against humanity.

The 81-page report titled, “Torture Archipelago: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons Since March 2011,” was compiled from over 200 interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch since the uprisings in Syria began.

Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Syrias 27 Torture Centers

(Source: Daily Mail)

Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Syrias 27 Torture Centers

(Source: Daily Mail)

“The intelligence agencies are running an archipelago of torture centers scattered across the country,” said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch. “By publishing their locations, describing the torture methods, and identifying those in charge we are putting those responsible on notice that they will have to answer for these horrific crimes.”

Nearly all the former detainees who spoke with Human Rights Watch said they had been tortured or witnessed the torture of others while imprisoned. According to the report, interrogators, guards and officers used a variety of torture methods including prolonged beatings with batons and cables, holding detainees in painful stress positions for long periods of time, using electricity, burning with acid, sexual assault, the pulling off of fingernails and mock execution to provoke psychological distress.

Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Syrias 27 Torture Centers

Human Rights Watch was able to identify more than 20 individual torture methods used at the Syrian detention centers.

A 31-year-old former detainee who was held in Idlib governorate in June described his experience at the facility — It is absolutely horrifying:

They forced me to undress. Then they started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears. I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful. They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice. I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days.

Even worse, some of the torture victims interviewed reportedly included woman, children and the elderly. However, the majority of the victims were young men aged 18 to 35.

Human Rights Watch released a video that include some of the interviews with former detainees of Syria’s torture centers. It can be seen, below:

Human Rights Watch has been able to identify Syria’s most brutal torture centers, which are run by the nation’s four main intelligence agencies, known collectively as the “mukhabarat”:

  • The Department of Military Intelligence (Shu`bat al-Mukhabarat al-`Askariyya)
  • The Political Security Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi)
  • The General Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-`Amma)
  • The Air Force Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya)

Further, some of the witnesses interviewed said the conditions of the detention centers were torturous on their own merit. They cited extreme overcrowding, inadequate food and a regular lack of medical assistance. Syrian officials obviously have shown no regard to legal standards required in the country’s detention facilities.

Human Rights Watch has called for the U.N. Security Council to bring Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and implement sanctions to curb the ongoing abuse.

“The reach and inhumanity of this network of torture centers are truly horrific,” Solvang said. “Russia should not be holding its protective hand over the people who are responsible for this.”

Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Syrias 27 Torture Centers

(Source: Daily Mail)

Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Syrias 27 Torture Centers

(Source: Daily Mail)

The United Nations has estimated more than 10,000 people have been killed since the uprisings in Syria began roughly 16 months ago.

The Human Rights Watch report revealed that tens of thousands of people had been detained by the previously mentioned four main intelligence agencies.

The Daily Mail reports the documented cases of tortures gathered by the group match the account of a former Syrian intelligence officer who told CNN how he was frequently ordered to torture prisoners.

“Whatever we wanted the prisoner to say, he would say. We took their fingernails out with pliers and we made them eat them. We made them suck their own blood off the floor,” the former officer told CNN.

Comments (76)

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  • TRILO
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:01pm

    This is nothing more than propaganda for the sheeple’s consumption to get them more hyped up for war with Syria (Russia & China). The same sheeple are cheering in the streets when the USA participates in this type of activity under the rendition programs.

    Assad is a bad person and so are the rebels (Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, etc). Either side you choose represents death and destruction. All that their “democracy” gets them is a theocratic dictatorship. We fight Al Qaeda and other terrorists then we fund them when they try to start civil wars when we want dictators taken out. This strategy has worked so well in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

    The Republican and Democrat neocons and warmongers are using anything that they can to stir the pot and get the USA involved in a world war. This is just another power grab by the West to control (through proxy) the middle east and it’s resources. This is also a backdoor way to get into a war with Iran. Unfortunately, it will backfire. If you think otherwise then you need to get your head out of the sand.

    I am tired of being the world’s police while our own borders are open and dangerous. If you want to protect the Syrian people then hop on a plane and defend them yourself with your own money. I want our troops on our southern border protecting American cities and the American people. Now!!!!

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    • DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:26pm

      Right! We get stories of rthis & that but we dn’t knowa anything!

      Then they demand we give em money!
      Sorry we dn’t know the truth here &we should not be deciiding that he Muslims ae victims when we have no real proof!

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    • Psonaught
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:36am

      I strongly disagree with one point you make but agree with much of the rest. This is not about helping the west. That‘s too small it’s about one small group of people with allegiance to noone and nothing but themselves, certainly not there birth country or nationality, trying to create enough chaos and death to force people to accept one international government under them by proxy.

      Using the immense wealth and power procured over so many generations to influence and control people. Using any means. This is a war unique, it’s being fought against all the people of the world by all the people of the world. To move their chess pieces so we destroy ourselves and ask them to control us, to save us from ourselves. WWI seems to have been created along the same lines when talk of internationalism and globalism was pushed into the public consciousness. That WWI would provide the final push, to make people into acceptance of the then new league of nations control.

      This war is being fought against the west as much as anyone.

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    • mils
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 3:15am

      The man should be shown no mercy..HOWEVER….
      “MOSCOW: Western nations led by the United States are seeking to persuade Russia to host President Bashar al-Assad in exile as a way out of the escalating Syria crisis, a Russian newspaper report said Wednesday.
      But Moscow so far has not been receptive to the idea, even though Kremlin sources put Assad’s chances of political survival at “10 per cent”, the Kommersant daily said.
      Quoting a Russian diplomatic source, Kommersant said Western nations led by the United States were making “active attempts” to persuade Russia to offer a home to Assad, whose fate has become a major sticking point in the crisis.
      But the source added: “We (Russia) have no and have had no plans to host Assad.”
      He should be shown no mercy…he is a barbarian, murderer. And we want him to have a safe home..the horror, the innocent children that have been murdered, with Assad at the helm…he and his wife with her shoes should be set out on the streets, naked, unarmed…

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  • blueman
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:33pm

    Well, It maybe true, But I’ll give you odds there is something wrong with this report. Hillary and these One World Order people would like to stir something up so they could overthrow another government.
    Just like they did in Egypt, Now look what we have there. Is this the kind of democracy the world is after?

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    • MRMANN
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:43am

      I agree that Hillary & her ilk are pushing for OWO, and what more effective way than to get another war going. Traditionally, democrats like Hillary used to be mainly doves but today they seem to have become hawks instead.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:17pm

    But Obama, Holder, Pelosi, and cohorts think water boarding is barbaric. So as long as they do not water board, I guess this is ok with these treasonous people in our White House and Congress.

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  • polnick
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:13pm

    Spanking is not only reserved for a bad child it is being used to punish adults that disrespect authority. Spankers prefer an electric cable; they are easily available and do a better job than an ordinary whip. Spankers are not interested in obtaining a confession but only in handing out punishment. Prisons are being replaced because of its high costs; frequent spankings are the best way of punishing disobedience.

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  • nattybrooks
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:08pm

    obama/clinton2012. support your local terrorist. dont think james garner made this film

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    • teaisstronger
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Are Bush And Chaney Doing This Syrian Torture?

      Does Obama and Hillary expect us to believe this? Pelosi traveled to Syria in violation of a Bush State Department ban for talks. Obama expressed friendship with Syria. Syria has been using torture for decades and the American Communist Party in the Oval Office just discovers this? Sorry, America does not believe Obama anymore.

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  • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:06pm

    Where are the liberals….where is the outrage? Why aren’t they picketing and going over there
    to speak (sean penn)? It makes me sick when our agents are accused of “torture” for waterboarding while these horrors occur without mention in our media.
    Truly, THIS is what they want? Didn’t Hilary praise Syria just a year or two ago….before she praised Egypt, etc,etc.
    The problem is we’re not just wrong, we will be dead wrong because of the freakin‘ attitude that caused a town to cancel it’s fireworks because some bird didn’t like the noise? Isn’t THAT why they fly? So they can go elsewhere?
    I‘m just sayin’ that liberals don’t see they are creating the means for this same thing to occur here.
    I wish they’d get their heads out of thei a**es. And my liberal friends claim they are liberals because they are “intellectuals”.
    Good luck with that in the face of these torturers should they ever gain power here.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:22pm

      Speaking of the libs. What, no worst of the worst types of torture? No water boarding stations? Well, I guess that in the mind of the libs this torture chamber has to be a cake walk. Just ask Pelosi.

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    • Cybil
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:45pm

      This has happened daily in North Korea yet there are not any major media stories about it. Only the Dailynk.com publishes atrocities like this. Maybe because there are more “survivors” from Assad’s terrorist regime? Possibly. Both theaters are horrible.

      http://www.dailynk.com/english/sub_list.php?cataId=nk01500

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    • Chris
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Purple… These people like Sean Penn and the other “Human Shields” will ONLY go somewhere if there is NO THREAT to themselves. I mean all these million dollar babies that whine about how horrible it is in OUR country have no idea what it’s like to go someplace where the value of human life is so low. The sad part about this is that 2 other major world powers (china, russia) are backing the policies of these tyrants. But at the same time… If there was oil over there… Well we would’ve already stepped in another mud hole by now.

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  • B4B
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:29pm

    And what did we THINK was happening in Syrian jails? Was it something other than this?
    There is no surprise here.

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  • DrWho
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Blah, blah, blah… This is the story we were given for Libya, Iraq, Kosovo…
    Can someone please post a map showing all of the abortion clinics in the US?
    If we can bomb Syria for torture, does that mean the Vatican can launch cruise missiles against Planned Parenthood?
    Just asking

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:59pm

      How does someone become so cold on human rights as you apparently have? Abortion is an atrocity, but remember the old say, ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’? You cannot justify bad behavior by pointing out other bad behavior.

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    • DrWho
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:59pm

      So killing Syrians will make it all better…

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    • DrWho
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:46am

      The Assad government is the last secular government left. The US is actively building the Caliphate

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:01pm

    …
    And the World criticized Americans for a little waterboarding.

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  • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:56pm

    Human Rights Watch from David Horowitz’s site: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258

    Blaze writers please vet your sources.

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    • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:09pm

      Who are these “victims” and what is their agenda? Marxism? Communism?

      The internationale Arabic, Syrian communist party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzOY43KTxJU

      Syrian opposition suggests ways to solve crisis:
      The participants in the coalition were: “The Popular Will Party; Syrian Social National Party; The Third Movement for Syria; The Movement of Peaceful Change; Marxist Democratic Gathering; The Movement of the National Action; The Popular Front for Change and Liberation”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RUqY_zY4E

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    • GlezeleVayne
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:11pm

      Bashar al-Assad is not a good guy. Neither was his father. He is no friend of Israel or America. However, the Christians and Alawites of Syria depend on him for their very lives. He protects them from the radical Islamists in the country, who would force them into the untenable choice of “convert or die” if they gained power. To depose Assad without someone decent to replace him is to invite the Muslim Brotherhood to rule Syria. They’re not going to operate the country humanely either, and they will work tirelessly to bring back the Caliphate.

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  • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:49pm

    I just sent this e-mail to the writer of this article:

    HRW is funded by George Soros and his Open Society so they are not a credible source. I would call it propaganda. I am not saying Assad is a good guy, but I think something more sinister is going on. Who is funding the rebels?

    http://theintelhub.com/2012/06/28/syrian-rebel-terrorists-ransack-christian-churches-as-coing on. orporate-media-silent/

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9321068/Channel-4-journalist-Alex-Thomson-says-Syria-rebels-led-me-into-death-trap.html

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:30pm

    Shocked. Not. No pun intended.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:18pm

    This kind of treatment of humans is all too real in the world. I just finished reading the book Escape from Camp 14, about the only person to have ever escaped from a North Korea prison camp who was born in it. Shin, the subject of the book, saw his mother and brother executed for talking about trying to escape. His saw a fellow six year old beaten to death because she had a few grains of corn in her pocket.
    The amount of torture and murder is horrific in some places in this world. If given enough power, Obama and his fellow tyrants, including Cass Sunstein, would subject Americans to the same. FDR came close. This is why we must end the rule of the Teleprompter Tyrant and his cadre of collectivists this fall. Their utopian totalitarian states always end in this kind of terror inflicted upon humankind!

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:08pm

    Standard Islam

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:56pm

    Did they do this to Americans? If not why do we care? Let them kill each other.

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    • PresidentDowngrade
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:10pm

      So Glen is on the same side as Hit-larry and the globalist like Soros with this stupid propaganda. Just like Assad did the Houla massacre. Oh wait those were Nato Mercenaries that killed those women and children. Who side are you on Glen? Soros/Hitlarry/Obama because they cant get to the bank of Syria/Iran and North Korea. How does that Clear Channel Money smell Glen..A little BLOODY?

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:12pm

      @mutiny

      So, if you are ever tortured, you know the “FEMA Camps”, the rest of us can rightfully say “It’s not me, so why should I care. Let em die”

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:58pm

      therealconservative
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:12pm

      @mutiny

      So, if you are ever tortured, you know the “FEMA Camps”, the rest of us can rightfully say “It’s not me, so why should I care. Let em die”
      ================================================

      You just used the same rationalization that they have been using all this time to justify the passage of Obamacare into law….

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:02pm

      @ therealconservative

      Exactly. I do not understand how we have become so uncaring. In many cases, we have become the very enemy we claim to be against. So saddening.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:03pm

      “It’s not me so why should I care”

      Eerily sounds like a form of the entitlement society to me. “Me, myself and I and screw everyone else”. How pathetic.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:36pm

      @thereal and JHR

      Well first off, I am an American citizen. Me being locked up and tortured in the United States should be a problem for all Americans. On to my point that you both clearly missed. I am saying it isnt our problem, we cannot fix this mess. I dont think we should risk our troops and continue our slide to bankruptcy over Syrians.

      You two must also want to go to all nations to save them also. Hell lets invade Somalia and Sudan while we are at it. Oh and which side do we take. Do we side with the dictator in Syria or Al Qaeda ( yeah you two retards the same people that did attack us we are supporting now helping).

      Have you Neocons not realized that a lot of these leaders go and “help” we have to fight later?

      Hussein, Bin Laden to name two.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:59pm

      @ mutiny

      So do you believe we should ever invade another country or stop atrocities to other human beings? Is there any reason to ever do that or do you prefer the isolationist solution? Personally, while I don‘t like butting in other people’s business, I love life and I love human beings and I think when people are being insanely brutalized that we should jump in and help. I will (and have) jump in to help a stranger I see on the street in a strange town I am visiting being terribly victimized and I am all for stopping the torture of human beings anywhere in the world. I am not just about me and mine. I believe in people helping people no matter what color or religion.

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  • Endstatism
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:49pm

    Progressives in America are wishing they could do those things to conservatives, Tea Party members and gun owners.

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    • marcus_arealius
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:57pm

      It would (will) be hard for them to do these things with a couple hundred grains of lead in their chest.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:48pm

    “A report released today by Human Rights Watch reveals the existence of 27 detention facilities in Syria,”
    =======================================

    Just found out that “Human Rights Watch” is sponsored by George Soros’s Open Society Institute:

    “Human Rights Watch is grateful to these and other foundations for their partnership and support:”
    Human Rights Watch: brought to you by The Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network

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  • ImA0
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:37pm

    Hey arent these the CIA’s buddies?

    •The Department of Military Intelligence (Shu`bat al-Mukhabarat al-`Askariyya)
    •The Political Security Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi)
    •The General Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-`Amma)
    •The Air Force Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya)

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:34pm

    I wonder if they commit the worse of all possible forms of torture … called water-boarding … especially the way American did it

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    • Constructionist
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:52pm

      And God forbid… Ensure

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:36pm

      BLAZINGAWAY, My apologies to you. I said about the very same thing above before reading your post. I guess great minds think alike though.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:26pm

    Isn’t it finally time for Al-Qaeda to go home and stop trying to take over Syria?:

    ——————————————————
    ‘Dead’ al Qaeda’s No 2 backs rebels in Syria
    June 13, 2012,

    Libi’s video surprised those expecting a scathing message against the West.

    Without any mention of drone attacks, he called on its fighters outside Syria to join the rebels in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad, calling him a “tyrant” and his government a “criminal regime”, according to SITE’s translation.

    “We call on our brothers in Iraq, Jordan and Turkey to go to help their brothers. If your revolution was to be peaceful, God would have chosen it that way, but now the illusion of peaceful means after these great sacrifices … would show weakness,” Libi said, addressing Syrians.
    http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/dead-al-qaeda-s-no-2-backs-rebels-in-syria_781511.html

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  • freeberty
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:24pm

    I wonder if the people are allowed to own guns?

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  • 321481
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:20pm

    Water boarding look humane compared to these acts.

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:38pm

      Press 1 – waterboarding
      Press 2 – get a beachhouse in the Bahamas (Weegars)
      Press 3 – loud music
      Press 4 – 3 meals, sheets, library, gym, prayer rugs, medical, chapel

      Yes, we Americans really know how to torture

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  • aChameleon
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:19pm

    Maybe jane fonda will come out in support of the syrians.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:40pm

      All the more reason to re-release the Hanoi Jane Urinal Targets.

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  • IndependentAmericanParty
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:19pm

    I wish this story would fairly say WHO is funding these torture facilities. The CIA is the one funding them! That’s Blaze, more one-sided reporting… Sure, Assad is a bad guy with a tyrannical government. But when are we going to wake up and realize that the real enemy we face is our own government? Did anyone bother to read the story where the Department of Homeland Security came out and said that anyone who is “reverent of individual liberty” is terrorist? These people are creeps, psychopaths, murderers, and criminals. Here’s that story, complete with links to the actual report lest anyone try to say it is a conspiracy theory: http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-report-lists-liberty-lovers-as-terrorists/

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  • frust@ted
    Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:14pm

    I can’t posibly imagine, I think i would rather die then ever be captured by the enemy.

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    • Edward
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:33pm

      I would make sure I would fight tooth and nail and force them to kill me quickly. Make sure you never get captured when its a war situation, this is what they do to prisoners. It will happen here too.

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