'Judicial' death Baghdad style

latimes: Justice Is Swift and Deadly in Baghdad

..The defendants said they were welding, plastering and working construction on the morning of the murder. Atiyah, the accused driver of the car, said his brother was a policeman killed by rebels. "How can I cooperate with terrorists?" he said.

He told the judge that the police "tortured me for five days, tore off my clothes and underwear and threatened to rape me and bring my wife and sisters in to rape them."

"Why did you confess?" the judge asked Abdullah. Read more