Update: Boy Among Five Tortured in Iraq

Torture Instruments
Open thread:

Here are two stories that expose the true nature of the enemy.

However, this is the type of news that doesn't fit easily into the mainstream media's template for reporting the Iraq war. Left to liberally biased voices, war atrocities are only news when the U.S. is the accused. Because you probably won't come across these kinds of stories on CNN or NBC, the news is worth repeating.

UPDATE
The Smoking Gun has posted a collection of drawings and photos of tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid.

In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an "al-Qaeda torture chamber." It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis who were found in a padlocked room in Karmah. The group, which included a boy, were reportedly beaten with chains, cables, and hoses. More.

ORIGINAL POST
Reuters reports the U.S. military said on Monday it had found five Iraqis, including a boy, who had been kidnapped and tortured by militants the captives described as foreign fighters.

The four unidentified men and the boy were found during raids against an al Qaeda network in Garma, about 30 km (20 miles) west of Baghdad in Anbar province, a Sunni Arab insurgency stronghold.

They were found inside a padlocked room and had been beaten with chains, cables and hoses, the U.S military said in a statement.

"The boy stated the terrorists had hooked electrical wires to his tongue and shocked him," it said. It did not give the boy's age.

According to Reuters the hostages indicated their captors were foreign fighters who spoke with different accents.

All five were from different tribes, the military said, but no other details were available. They would receive medical treatment and then be handed over to tribal leaders. Read more.

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