[jessefan]

Sickening, but more proof our people needed to go there.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,...1438798,00.html

Video proof of brutal Saddam
31/10/2003 15:51 - (SA)


London - A brutal videotape has emerged showing Iraqi soldiers being tortured and executed, according to Sky News reports.

The 23-minute tape features members of Iraqi Republican Guard and Saddam Fedayeen militiamen being punished.

One shocking scene shows a man with his hands bound being thrown off the roof of a multi-storey car park.

He lands on his back but survives.

Other scenes show fingers being chopped or shot off, tips of tongues being cut off, wrists being broken by hard blows from a wooden rod, lashes by whip or cane, and a beheading involving a sword and knife.

The man who helped taped the footage gave it to the US Army's 308th Civil Affairs Brigade in Iraq.

America's Fox News reported that he is co-operating with US troops and has more tapes.

The Republican Guard was a specially-trained army while the Fedayeen was set up to crush Saddam's domestic opponents.

The footage was most likely recorded at a military installation near Baghdad sometime between 1998 and the fall of the regime, according to the US military.