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06/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Iraqis recount torture at Saddam's hands"

ALL I WANTED TO GET WAS SIGNS ON DVD: But in Baghdad you can buy short videos of tortures in Saddam Hussein's jails.

One video - "Saddam's Crimes and His Followers: Mukhabarat Torturing" - shows men lying on the ground as their legs are tied to a stick in the air. They writhe in pain as military officers whip the soles of their bare feet. Another shows a grenade being strapped to the chest of a blindfolded man. A few minutes later, he's blown up.

"Thousands of people have bought them," said Taha Adnan, 16, a vendor in the market.

Iraqis have quite a few stories to tell about what Hussein did to them. Read on.