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Sunday, May 16, 2004 10:29 a.m. EDT
Report: Saddam's Torture Scenes to Be Broadcast

Hideously gruesome photographs and videotapes of Saddam Hussein's police torturing innocent Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison are said to be in the hands of the new Arab-language television network Alhurra, which is culling through the material and deciding what to broadcast.

Novelist and screenwriter Roger Simon reports on his Web site that the images include photographs or videotape of:

-Actual live castrations of Kurds.

-Two beheadings, with one featuring the executioners singing "Happy Birthday, Saddam" in Arabic as they carry out the grisly murder.

-A detainee whose hand is tied to a board while his fingers are cut off one by one.

-People being thrown off four-story buildings, including one who was forced to wear a Superman costume.

-A man scourged 99 times.

-Babies being gassed to death.

Writes Simon: "I would like to know if any of these torturers is actually in Abu Ghraib right now. ... I also would like to know what Senator Kennedy has to say about the moral equivalence of our actions after watching these tapes."