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ah, as me right north come my name is drake. now i'll come out. i was present at number 160831. that was the number assigned to me by the us occupation forces off to my rest. they took me in for recording things on camera. when the americans 1st arrived in baghdad fell. what we saw at 1st was very different from the reality i experienced in prison. the americans arrived with promises of security, democracy, peace and freedom. and we welcomed all that under so dam. there were belly, any freedoms left in iraq, so we said good that see what we could make of it. maybe we could start our lives in you. but then we saw the americans do things in the streets of baghdad, things that were very different from what they promised. we had people, we trusted our religious leaders, but the americans were invaded with whom you never knew if they were lying or
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telling the truth. we lived like that for a while. then came the arrests. people were taken at random and nobody knew why we watched this and we couldn't wrap our minds around it. where did the promised freedom and democracy go? what followed was a period of g had resistance against the invaders, initiated by religious leaders. now what's important about my row? i was seeing the people who filmed the invaders getting clobbered there, but crashes on high 5th street in the our wiley neighbourhood and a few other neighborhoods of baghdad. and there, i was filming the evidence yet. they came for my brother 1st. the rest 1st started in the provinces, we never saw any freedom or democracy, only indiscriminate killing. they broke into our homes, assaulted and dishonored, our wives and sisters murdered people opening in the streets. we saw air raids against anti townsend communities in the suburbs of baghdad. so re rebelled against the invaders. what else could we do? there was not a single shred of freedom of democracy in the actions. are religious laid as openly
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cold them invade us. our politicians at the time sided with the americans turning against their own people. that's what our country looked like for a while. i. oh, so like i said, my brother was one of the 1st to be arrested at the time i was filming the developments in various neighborhoods in baghdad on apple straight and on high for straight. my. we filmed our people being arrested and murdered. we had 40 showing snipers push on the roofs of hive. a straight gunning people down like cattle. how is that freedom and democracy? and the rocky government wouldn't lift a finger? many of us were killed, murdered in cold blood, some would kidnap yes, they kidnapped people. there were people in civilian clothes. we didn't know who they were or whether they worked for the americans. when the arrests started, we could no longer sleep safely in our homes. so we left for the provinces, they chased us like we were criminals. like we were terrorists. we didn't even know what tara was before they arrived. they got my older brother 1st, then they started looking for me. i filmed them and the horrible things they did on
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add port street and high 5th street. i watch with my own eyes, my fellow rockies fighting back. my people would never put up with the invite us. i fought them too because i won't allow anyone to invite my land and humiliate my wife, mother and sister. so we fought for danny, they rested my older brother than my younger brother. at the time, i was aim one of a rocks provinces. we had organized resistance moved there, a strong one. unlike what the american say, it was the rocky people who opposed them, not some dissident factions. i filmed and sent footage to al jazeera al mana and 2 other arab tv networks to show how the invaders were treating the iraqi people. as for the rocky government, it assisted the americans in killing all people. the americans came to destroy us, not bring us freedom and democracy in as for the rest itself started with me arriving in bagdad. i didn't tell any one when i'd be arriving all that i was
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coming back. it's all i was sleeping out on the terrace when they sent troops to my location. that night i remember wearing a dished ashy. we're having dinner, my brother cook make a bab, we love cabin a rocky cuisine. we also had the reed and some other dishes. i wanted to visit my brother who had been arrested a while before. he couldn't tell me they wanted to arrest me also. he wasn't allowed to keep in touch with us from prison, so we had no idea what was coming. like i said, i was sleeping when they came out of nowhere helicopter came right above me. troop as descended from it grabbed me and clamped my mouth. shut one of the mass. are you to right? i said, yes i am. they had an interpreter with them who said i was under arrest. i was shock since i hadn't done anything wrong. they took me to the helicopter, put me in some kind of basket suspended on oaks of any same things like that in the movies than we took off. i had no idea where they were taking may or what crime had supposedly committed. when they rested my brother, they wrapped him up in duct tape, had to tow like a mummy and threw him into
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a car. on the we arrived at the baghdad and po, so it was a short flight. they took me out of the basket and brought me to a place inside the boat. i didn't know where i was. i was wrapped like a mummy and state like that for 3 hours and then for women soldiers came, they asked you to rate a value. i didn't know what i've done wrong. i said, yes, i am to write and talk to them for a while yet then an interpreter, k wearing goggles and masks, he said, you're a terrorist. and i said, what have i done to be called a terrace? i'm not a terrorist, he said, all right. and he turned on a water hose and told me to undress right in front of the women when they hit me with a stick on the head and on the back and drench me with water from the hose. and it was a cold day than they left me in one of the rooms where i stayed naked for about 4 days. it was hardly any food. they would bring some flat bread, say food, and throw it at us. it tasted like paper, we didn't really know what it was, bread or some other kind of bakery. i was very hungry all the time. they gave us
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one glass of water a day just enough to wet our lips just enough to keep us from dying of thirst and starvation. i am beneath the interpreter and the women soldiers laughed at me. they said we'd been looking for you for 2 or 3 months, you've been arrested for fighting the occupying forces. i said i didn't fight them or not. there were other people. the, the people rose undeclared jihad against you. because you came and said one thing. but did another, that's what you're doing now is the best example that they tied my hands and took me to another room to beat me oxygen. then they took me to my older brother and asked him, is this your brother durham? he said yes, that gave him some kind of injection and his leg went limp than they are. my 2nd brother is this your brother durham? he said yes. and they took him away in italy than they took me to another place where i was with 30 or 40 other prisoners. helicopters came and took away important people, those who were opposing the invaders and sent them to guantanamo where they sent about 20 people that i remember that very well they just came in a helicopter and took people away or shown in charlotte when the investigation star
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i thought it would take a month or 2, but it took 7 months. there was no real investigation, they just mistreated me all the time. they set police dogs on me and put my face against their muzzles with a face animal like that. you don't know what it will do, will they made me talk to the dogs? i asked, what should i say? these are animals. and they said say whatever you want. when i was talking to the dogs, they took notes and then checked. if i'd gotten anything wrong and they took me to a different room and pulled water on me, i couldn't see where i was in another room. they beat me with a stick and broke my ribs. there was also room with live snakes. on one occasion, they wanted me to stretch out my arms to stand like a cross. remember when some western and arabic channels showed that picture of a person with his arms stretched out like a crossway, they wanted me to do the same about some a religious ladies by shit and sunny, but also put in that prison. i didn't know all of them. the americans tortured them too, but they said they would enjoy it and did not give out any information to my car.
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like i said, they would take us to different rooms in one room. you would be beaten in another room. they were snakes in the 3rd room, they were animals, then they would give a cup of coffee. but after you finish the coffee, everything would start again. that's what their investigation was like. they made up charges, they had nothing to do with reality. at 1st i thought i was the only person in this situation, but there were thousands of people who were accused of terrorism like that than the u. s. troops who had guarding the area began to clash with our brothers. americans couldn't leave us there, but they didn't want to release to say that. so they moved us to another prison. that's not what a man would do. they were just acting like cowboys. chinook helicopter came and took us to camp boca. but that's where it all started. a long bo abaca alba daddy had been in that prison. al qaeda was also founded that done, and they separated the prisoners and put them in different wings. one wing was for radicals. another was for people like the mighty army, and the 3rd was for the sundays. after they had
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a cup just brought the people to camp booker. that's why they arranged into several columns. my cousin assoni was with me. my brother alley who had a long bed was also there. he's my older brother from a different father who had died by that time. my younger brother was also with me. we stood in a column. what i'm saying is that it was they who started the religious strife and all the problems in iraq started because of them. and because of them, iraq was destroyed. as we were standing there, the interpreter came to us and asked, are you a sunny or she i to him. so why would they off? that was the difference why i decided to have a little laugh and said, i'm a christian. even though i'm a she, isaac, he asked me my name. i said my name is to read nail camille. he softened a bit because american sympathized with christians. in fact, nail is an old christine name that i got from my father, so my full name has bites shiite and kristian brutes. the interpreter asked. are you christine? i said yes, i leave off that i was sent to another wing. so she eyes were sent to one wing
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sundays to another, and so on. those who had problems wallets the site was sent to the radical wing, while radicals were recruited from al qaeda. so they use camp boca as a recruiting graph, a militants that they use to destroy society. i know that for a fact i was kept in one part of the prison while my brothers were elsewhere. my brother was in a sheer wing of my cousin in the sunny wink. so if you or she, i to you went to one wing. if you're a sunny to another. and if you had problems there, you'd be transferred to the floor where radicals were kept in all wings. they were people who tortured the inmates for information. and brainwash though, they talked about fat wasn't factions, but it was hard to tell who they really were. that was the 1st step towards organizing religious schools in the prison. and in the evening, chaos broke out. for example, there were full watch towers that turned in district clubs at night. when his soldiers went up there, put down their weapons and took off their clothes. we said, oh god, what is all this? we're not used to this. we honor our religious tradition. we pray,
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read the koran and keep the false. we ended up in that prison for having stood up against the invaders because all their words of freedom and democracy were as far from reality as can be. i went out, relatives came to visit americans watched as closely paying attention to everything we were saying. making sure we didn't disclose what was going on in the prison. where is freedom and democracy in that? what we did get was torch up slow, death and poison food. refrigerator trucks came in carrying crates of poison food. many of the inmates were poisoned, some of them even died. there were no medications, they just gave you any pill and, and he sent those for treatment. who were on that death bed already. yes. so they waged a psychological war against us. sometimes they both sets a tent on fire. oh, let place dogs loose on us. i remember one time when they sat 10 dogs on us while we were praying. why did they do that? they would unleash a blood bath and then climb, watch time to watch and love. we knew that something bad was going to happen when we saw one of the said his go up, the watch tower. when we was surrounded by prison officers,
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we already knew we were in for another performance and we had to resign. otherwise they would have killed all mutilated us. many tried to flee, but no one succeeded. some of the fail escapees were locked up in cells full of snakes to be eaten by the reptiles. we saw things that can't be described by words, so much suffering comedy. they wouldn't let us smoke for entertainment sake. when we suffered without cigarettes can we? they told us we'd get cigarettes if we brought in scorpions and made us take holes in the soil of spoons in search of scorpions. we got 2 cigarettes a day for one school piano. also, they wouldn't let us drink tea. what is psychological wool? if not this, as i said, just now, the watch towers along the prison perimeter were transformed in strip clubs at night, where women's soldiers would strip is beyond comprehension for the religious leaders that were there were thus kept saying that we would stay firm and avoid watching or taken part in that could all but americans would force us. and if we put up resistance, they burned down all intense, threatened, docile,
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took us to the extremist wing in what they apparently had an arrangement with them . once that we would be such in a humiliating manner, the wings inmates would beat us out o west attempt to poke our eyes out with a spoon. when i got there, i tried to stay silent and low profile to get out in one piece. ah, ah, a with, by the middle of the 20th century, the portuguese colonial empire was in an acute crisis. a particularly 10th situation had developed in mozambique the people of this country were put in
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a humiliating position, income inequality ramp, and illiteracy. disrespect by the portuguese for the local traditions, led to mass unrest in 964. the liberation front of mozambie, brailey mo, began its arm struggle for freedom. the regular army was not easy to resist, but the guerrillas inflicted considerable damage on the invaders groups. the fighters against the colonial regime were supported by the soviet union and china. whereas the united states and great britain took the side of the invaders, the portuguese responded to the guerrillas attacks with cruel counter insurgency. however gray limos 10 year courageous struggle was a success after the overthrow of the fascist regime in portugal in 1974, the new authorities surrendered a year later, lisbon fully recognized the independence of mozambique. but the victory had been
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gained at a high price during the war, mozambique had lost tens of thousands of his sons and daughters who it's done. lord, stream one and 2 were destroyed by great britain. it's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on russian energy. the war in ukraine is all mistakes were made and i have been elected as a leader of my party. angel prime minister in o. hi is taxation? sit still with this year alone, we have provided 2300000000 pounds of military support. and we will do the same again next year. i need to because i still wait, wait a look
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it when you buy it. when you sit down with that, buy mia. ah . how did you get what was a ritual funny of a list? i spent there about 14 months and then i was released as a rule when they were attacks and fighting a rupture, they used to say they would release half of the inmates to take in new prisoners who would then see to the difference between american promises and the prison reality i spent over year in that facility because of the trumped up charges against me and the deliberate foot dragging with a trial. when you get arrested and investigated, comes to see you at once. he's full of lies telling you the investigation has been prolonged for 4 months. we have to wait for 4 months wandering. what on earth they're investigating all this time? i know that in some cases it makes was so tired of waiting. when the investigation
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was repeatedly prolonged, they would admit any charges. the investigator brought against them and were ready to sign any papers. however, once the papers was signed, they were transferred elsewhere. and those they could crack even by torture, was sent to one ton of i'd have to go, i'm positive that many of the inmates were transferred to one side of my and we've lost track of them and know nothing of their whereabouts. a lot of people ended up like that either she, when someone was released, it always happened after 2 a and for some reason, they released those who'd been there for 4019, or 20 months. they set free. the inmates had been kept there for a while to replace them with new ones aiming to torture and break them as well. they usually came at 2 a. m, o may be 233, a m. as for me, i know they had a list of inmates who had been imprisoned for 14 months. there were 8 people on that list, including me. they lined us up and told us we were about to be released. i hadn't expect that, but thought they were going to kill us or something like that. often,
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after the prison and camp booker, i had stopped expecting anything good a toll, and was generally surprised when they told me i was free. in these to be added though, that they made a sign papers expressly stating that we can't fall complaints or make public any information pertaining to the prison's inner workings. they made a sign those papers saying they were bringing us freedom and democracy. we kept silent, of course, wishing for all this end as soon as possible. they were full offices there. the 1st one was smiling at us, as he explained about complaints and information sharing than a woman came with the papers we been told to sign. a 3rd person was one of their seniors. he sat looking at us and then said, was sorry, okay, let's consider your apology accepted, i replied, but you broke into my house and took away my equipment, forties, jewelry and money. and he said to me that god, help you the hello. can you imagine that? he said that to me, they told me to call had quarters about the latter. but there were thousands of people like me that 3 quarters of all
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a rockies pass through that prisons. some of them were killed or died an incarceration. others was stripped of all their rights, wanted me to cut a long story short. they dress, you in a dished ashy, give you a koran, then drop you off at one of baghdad streets to do whatever you want. i remember them giving us 50 us dollars to cover the public transport fe, and they give you a one size fits old dish. dasha of an unidentified color. it's like a uniform. the only inmates released at the same day were dressed in similar dish dashes. it was horrible to find yourself on the street dress like that because people start giving you suspicious looks wondering what had happened to you and not knowing if they were safe around you. and you remember that they were st. clashes at the time, but they released us. thank god and i continue fighting for my own rights and the rights of my brothers. one of whom is dead and the other crippled. and those of my cousin who is at home now and completely at a loss to know what to do with his life. i have nothing to add to that. why did the americans are such for others? what do they won't?
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like i said, they did it to all the rocky people because they behave like cowboys, not men. they came here for money. they came here to destroy a rog, i have nothing to add. how do you reflect you today? i had it. oh yes, this is still affecting me as i think about what happened. it feels like i'm going back and reliving it. i tried to forget, of course, but i can't. i think about it every day looking at my handicap brother. i can't forget my cousin who just sits around at home doing nothing. can forget my brother who was killed and i lost everything we had together. the americans still won't admit that he died because of them. but i will keep fighting because they've occupied our land. the message they proclaimed when they came here had nothing to do with what they actually brought. oh, do you my only junior issues and so does wherever char. wow, wow. those are all right. such as they said, the scape justice, we should talk about the top level leadership,
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not military commanders. we need to talk about those who came to our country and private jets. like i said, they came to destroy and oppress us. that is all. who do you hold responsible? what happened is that the americans and american troops, i remember a special unit. they called scorpion. there were others as well. they reported to scorpion and they murdered, arrested, and tortured people. they are responsible. i'm not talking just about myself and my rights and talking about hundreds of thousands of rockies who ended up in prisons, people from all over a rock, baghdad, basrah, et cetera. the american stripped them of their rights and did not letting them fight for them. even now they destroyed the country, killed so many people. so many women and children ruined their homes. they stormed houses with only women and children side and killed them. and what are we to do? stay silent and only talk to god. this is not a solution. many people that we are spoken to in iraq, indeed across the world. said george bush,
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tony blair should be tried his wounds. what do you make of those guys? yes, they need to be executed a course, i agree that it is their fault. what do you want to hear from me? he want me to go down memory lane again. i can't recount everything they've done, but what will it change? so you think they will fail? remorse, no. will they be prosecuted? no. those who are behind all this must be prosecuted because they are responsible for the destruction of a rock. i have a lot of information about everything that happened. i can tell you about the hospitals. they brought diseases that still can't be cured. i want to talk through you and asked for the rights of the innocent who were murdered to be restored. they stripped our people of their rights. ah,
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march 20th 2003, u. s. army and its allies invaded iraq. montoya saheed the fated to david miller. minimum kind of said, was it anybody else have evan, yvonne savage? oh, $7.00. out of that lim, dash. and a hobby lay the 1st 2003 u. s. president george bush declared victory in the iraq war. how did it a good bit for to hire date of december, the 30th 2006. saddam hussein was executed at adams. i will shut down from done december, the 15th 2011. a ceremony was held in bagdad tomorrow at the end of the u. s. military mission. in reality, the u. s. army is still in iraq. a. she had
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a village, a still a couple football awe neutrality is one of the most flexible concepts and international relations that you can imagine, which is why it's so useful. but why it is so inherently difficult to grasp. so that the chances we have is that countries fill it with the meaning that is useful to them and hopefully to, to all those. because i did, i did, i did score. it means i'm not taking decide of either of these completely. ah, in hungary has been a member of the european union and nato since 1999 during the 1st post soviet wave of nato's eastwood expansion. a history may log
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ah, hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. they are wanted by foreign governments for alleged crimes that occurred away from the shores in which they are found in some 50 per cent of countries around the world in the united states, demands you be found and handed over. the likely outcome is that you will be brought state side to face the american justice system, but is the same true when other countries demand americans be sent back to face their courts. this week will examine the extradition imbalance faced by countries who signed.

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