Americans show their face

By Joy, Dhaka
4 May 2004, 18:00 PM
. PHOTO: AFP
I am neither 'appalled' (like Blair) nor 'deeply disgusted' (like Bush) to know the way the Iraqi detainees are treated by the great civilised Americans. Let's see what the CBS News revealed.

One of the images shows a hooded and stripped prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his genitals. He was told that if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted. Other pictures showed nude prisoners lying on each other being forced to simulate oral sex before the grinning American soldiers.

Fortunately, Al-Jazeera did not telecast all these. In that case, the westerns would dismiss it as computer-generated frauds. This is the same Americans who wrote "F**K IRAQ" in their air base in huge letters during the war. The attitude towards the 'Moslems' has always been like this. More harrowing incidents will come to light as time passes. May God give us the strength not to be 'appalled' and 'deeply disgusted' at those.