This is a translation of /h/accident/post/7425/russian-streamer-lets-his-pregnant-girlfriend

The beginning is rough because it's hardly intelligible and understandable, but that's the least important fragment anyway. If you're not watching the whole thing, skip to the EMTs, that's the real black comedy.

Timothy was force-fed bread soaked in Carolina Reaper hot sauce and left in ice baths as forms of punishment. 99% of the time he was only ever allowed to eat 3-4 slices of bread soaked in the sauce per day or every other day(s). If he didn't have any reactions to it that they disliked, he was allowed another slice of bread without any sauce after waiting 30 mins.

During the testimony the brother reveals that Timothy had once eaten the leftover crust of a burger. When his brother questioned their mom on what to do, she instructed him to make Timothy puke it up. He did, using his hands.

The boy had both autism and ADHD (including motor + speech impairments) and weighed only 69 pounds when he died in July 2022. The family had installed various security systems and alarms to monitor him extremely closely and prevent him from ever having the chance to escape.

Pictures of Timothy before his death can be seen above. The next photo was taken by his brother and sent to their mom.

This closet in the family basement is where Timothy lived most of his life (he would sleep on the tarp). Officers reported an ‘overwhelming' odor of urine and feces in the room. His mother once got mad at him for being ‘too comfortable' while sleeping (i.e. sleeping with his head on top of his arm) and had his brother punish him for this. In the month leading up until his death, his mother and brother would talk about how he was ‘faking' his inability to walk or speak from malnourishment, and would subsequently punish him for this. In the days his brother would taunt him with food. It should also be noted that the medications given to people with special needs make them EXTREMELY hungry. Other heinous acts include asking Timothy's brother to pour hot sauce on his privates, to which even he declined, stating ‘that's too... [far]'. He was forced to run and exercise despite being malnourished and having motor impairments.

The bathroom where Timothy was tortured. You can see zipties and hot sauce on the counter. He was forced to take ice baths for as long as 9 hours, which he did right before he died.

Rest in peace little man, may your family get anally raped in prison Expeditiously 🙏🙏🙏

More background info:

Vander Ark and her family – Paul, Timothy and a 7-year-old boy – moved to Norton Shores in May 2021. Prosecutors have said Vander Ark should not have had custody of Timothy when she made the move from Oklahoma to Michigan based on previous allegations.

Oklahoma Child Protective Services investigated Vander Ark for similar abuse allegations between 2009 and 2012 and recommended her parental rights be terminated.

Yet, her parental rights were never terminated. Instead, Vander Ark entered an agreement with her then-husband, Eric Ferguson, that she would move and not have access to the children, Muskegon County Chief Trial Prosecutor Matt Roberts recently told MLive/Muskegon Chronicle.

Messages to Oklahoma CPS seeking comment were not returned to MLive/Muskegon Chronicle.

Eric Ferguson, Timothy's father, was living in Florida when the alleged abuse in Michigan was happening, prosecutors previously said. MLive/Muskegon could not reach Eric Ferguson for comment for this story.

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human remains found in a shark

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The skull of a person who suffered from Leontiasis Ossea, also known as leontiasis or lion face, is a rare medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the facial and cranial bones.

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SHANHAI PASS

THE END (OR BEGINNING) OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

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DRACUNCULIASIS, ALSO CALLED GUINEA-WORM DISEASE

A PERSON BECOMES INFECTED BY DRINKING WATER CONTAINING WATER FLEA INFECTED WITH GUINEA WORM LARVAE. THE LARVAE PENETRATE THE DIGESTIV TRACT AND ESCAPE INTO THE BODY WHERE THEY MATE, AND THEN THE FEMAL MIGRATES TO A LOWER LEG OR FOOT AND INDUCES AN INTENSELY PAINFUL BLISTER, WHICH EVENTUALLY BURSTS TO FORM A PAINFUL WOUND, OUT OF WHICH THE WORM SLOWLY CRAWLS OVER SEVERAL WEEKS. THE WOUND REMAI PAINFUL THROUGHOUT THE WORM'S EMERGENCE, DISABLING THE INFECTED PERSON FOR THE THREE TO TEN WEEKS IT TAKES THE WORM TO EMERGE.

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MYIASIS IS A TERM THAT DESCRIBES TISSUE INFESTATION BY A FLY LARVA THIS INSTANCE WASN'T CAUSED SOLELY BY MAGGOTS INFESTING THE ORA TISSUE. THIS PATIENT WAS FEATURED IN A SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL. HE WAS A HOMELESS MAN AND HEAVY SMOKER WITH HISTORY C UNTREATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE MOUTH. HE SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPED A MASSIVE NECROTIC ULCER THAT CAUSED MOST OF THE MAXILLOFACIAL TISSUE LOSS YOU SEE IN THE PICTURE.

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OCTOBER 25, 1957

BODY OF ALBERT ANASTASIA, THE HEAD OF MURDER INC.

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MARSEY THE CAT'S BIRTHDAY IN MARCH 3RD, 2016

THAT'S THE DAY MARSEY THE CAT FIRST APPEARED ON THE INTERNET AS A PART OF A TELEGRAM STICKER CONTEST

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TODD STOOPS A VICTIM OF SERIAL KILLER BOB BERDELLA

BERDELLA KIDNAPPED AND HELD THE 23-YEAR-OLD HOSTAGE FOR TWO MONTHS. DUR THAT TIME, BERDELLA REGULARLY RAPED AND TORTURED HIM WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS EVENTUALLY, BERDELLA'S ABUSES KILLED STOOPS. THE REPEATED RAPE GAVE STOOPS RECTAL RUPTURE. AS HE WAS BLEEDING PROFUSELY, BERDELLA GAVE HIM ANIMAL ANTIBIOTICS TO KEEP HIM ALIVE, BUT TO NO AVAIL. IT'S SAID THAT BERDELLA INJECTE DRANO INTO STOOPS' EYES RIGHT BEFORE HE DIED

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WWI

A DIGNIFIED OL'CHAP SMOKING HIS PIPE WATCHING SOLDIERS ON THE MOVE.

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JEFFERY DAHMER VICTIM

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THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF LEIPZIG AND HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE NEUES RATHAUS AS U.S. TROOPS WERE ENTERING THE CITY ON 20 APRIL 1945

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ON JANUARY 13, 2005, THE BODIES OF CANADIAN COUPLE JOHN AND JACKIE KNILL WERE DISCOVERED ON A THAILAND BEACH RESORT. THEY WERE TWO OF THE MANY VICTIMS KILLED FROM THE DECEMBER 26 2004 TSUNAMI. WEEKS LATER, A SEATTLE MAN DOING RELIEF WORK FOUND A DAMAGED CAMERA AND DISCARDED IT BUT KEPT THE MEMORY CARD IN THE CAMERA. AFTER DOWNLOADING THE IMAGES, HE DISCOVERED PICTURES OF THE KNILL'S ENJOYING THEIR VACATION, AS WELL AS SHOTS OF A HUGE WAVE APPROACHING THE SHORE. THE PHOTO WAS TIME STAMP 8:30AM DECEMBER 26, 2004

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THE BONES OF ST. PANCRATIUS IS FOUND AT THE CHURCH OF ST. NIKLAUS IN WIL, SWITZERLAND.

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MARTIAN SOLAR ECLIPSE

PHOTOS SHOW THE LARGER OF THE TWO MARTIAN MOONS PHOBOS PASSING IN FRONT OF THE SUN. PHOTO TAKEN BY CURIOSITY ON AUGUST 20TH, 2013

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Zoroastrian Towers of Silence

A dakhma also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation in order to avoid contamination of the soil and other natural elements by the decomposing dead bodies.

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THE TINY BLUE DOT IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS EARTH. TAKEN BY VOYAGER 1 IN 1990, AND AT A DISTANCE OF 3.8 BILLION MILES, IT IS THE FARTHEST-AWAY PHOTO OF EARTH EVER TAKEN

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POSTMORTEM RAT PREDATION

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ST GRATIANUS IS ENROBED IN RICH JEWELS AND FINE FABRIC BEFITTING HIS STATE AS A MARTYR. IT IS KNOWN HE DIED FOR HIS FAITH BECAUSE HIS BONES STAND ABOVE A CHALICE FILLED WITH DRIED BLOOD. HIS REMAINS ARE ON DISPLAY IN THE BASILICA OF WALDSASSEN IN GERMANY.

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 may be far more significant than anyone once thought.

Voyager 1 and 2 have the potential to exist for trillions of years. long after the earth is swallowed up by our star, long after our galaxy collides with Andromeda, long after the death of most of the stars in the universe Voyager 1 and 2 may still exist, meaning one of the two space probs could be the only shred of evidence that humans and possibly life ever existed in our universe.

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THIS BONNETED LADY CAN BE FOUND IN THE CHAPEL OF VIRGINS IN THE CRYPT OF THE MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DELLA PACE IN PALERMO, ITALY.

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As expected for this topic, this is an exceptionally long post. While the lack of videos and photos is understandable, there aren't even so many torture descriptions or drawings that I'd find good enough. The same goes for the videos that could replace the walls of text.

Sections go as follows:

1. Introduction. How this place looks and how it's organized.

2. The beginnings of the controversy. Some more general info, and photos by Shane McCoy (11th of January 2002, the first detainees arriving).

3. Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. There are two videos there (25 mins and 10 mins, timestamped) and a wall of text - both backstory and CIA personnel's initial observations. A few drawings by Zubaydah included, as well the other ones for comparision.

4. Case of Abu Zubaydah. Includes a 23 mins long video from Democracy Now! (timestamped).

5. Zubaydah's drawings. Matching other reports on torture, and the most detailed drawings we have for now. Also link to the report with all of them.

6. Want more? Just links for those who would like more torture descriptions or depictions. Only these outstanding in various ways, so for certain users they may go beyond informative (peer-reviewed, literally ).

7. The interrogation of Omar Khadr. The only video we have for now - it's a short part from the whole footage (recorded in 2003, released in 2008). Khadr was, at least in 2008, the only one in modern history to be tried for war crimes that he allegedly committed as a minor.

8. Sources.

⠀INTRODUCTION

Events described later may be hard to imagine, so let's start from the basics. Even the basics are a fucking mess, though, when it comes to informing the public.

Map of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base from gitmomemory.org (go there for interactive version). Red X means it's closed, orange X means it is or may be closed, and it's not related to the prison. Explanations about the detention camps is under the next picture.

Here, map of the camps from the BBC website:

What the camps were or are for:

Camp X. 'Housing' detaines from January to April 2002, before pernament facilities were built. 'Housing' was in cages ('wire mesh units, with wood/metal covers and concrete floors'), lacking privacy, exposing the detainees to the weather conditions and scorpions. The iconic photos of Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and the one starting the media outrage, are from Camp X.

Camp Delta. Operating since April 2002. Various sources claim it was consiting of 3, 4 or 5 units, with their layout being unclear. Around 2005, they had a capacity of above 1000. According to the HRW website, the specific camps' use were as follows. Camp 1 - constructed in similar way to Camp 3, but the prisoners housed in adjacent cells and able to communicate with each other. Camp 3 - opened in 2002, temporarily closed in 2006, reportedly served as a punishment unit with single cells and no options for contact between the detainees. Camp 4 - opened in February 2003, 'to ease restrictions and allow detainees who don't pose disciplinary problems to congregate more freely'.

Camp Echo. Detainees deemed unsitable for communal living in Camp 4 were housed there in shed-like buildings. Previously, they were used as interrogation and isolation units.

Camp Iguana. Used for short, for only three detainees between 13 and 15 yo. Important for PR purposes. Detainees 16 yo and older were treated as adults, as Defense Department decided to set other standards than the international ones.

Camp Five. This is where the most of reported abuse took place. Opened in May 2004, reportedly designed in a way similar to maximum-security prison. It was meant to at max 100 detaines, 'deemed to be the highest threat to themselves, other detainees or guards'.

Camp 6. Completed in November 2006, intended for at last 160 detainees.

Camp 7. Two-story building, a maximum-security facility, built in 2004 and kept secret for the first 2 years. It was housing the most 'valuable' and 'dangerous' prisoners. Closed in April 2021, to cut costs.

The following quote is from the beginning of May 2023:

Since 2002, roughly 780 detainees have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Now, 30 remain. Of those, 11 have been charged with war crimes in the military commissions system — 10 are awaiting trial and one has been convicted.

In addition, three detainees are held in indefinite law-of-war detention and are neither facing tribunal charges nor being recommended for release. And 16 are held in law-of-war detention but have been recommended for transfer with security arrangements to another country.

For the comparision, stats from November 2010 (when 174 detainees were remaining, 6 confirmed to die in custody). Last new detainee arrived in 2008.

⠀THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTROVERSY

I haven't seen any well-done timeline to put you here, that'd explain the parallel storylines - both of certain topics and certain detainees. Here is the interactive timeline of the events relating to CIA's secret interrogation program (may no work on mobile version). That's the type of a situation about which everyone knows, but it's hard to tell when did specific controversy start or surfaced, or it doesn't even have a timeline.

Photos of the first 20 detainees, who arrived on 11th of Janury 2002, were taken by Navy Petty Officer Shane McCoy. He was there on duty, but his photos - now iconic - are sometimes incorrectly thought to be a leak. They had to be taken and are a public domain (as every US federal gov work). Not all photos showed the detainees, some were depicting the infrastructure. Below, a few of them of them with descriptions quoted.

U.S. Army Pfc. Jodi Smith watches from the outer perimeter as detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area in Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility on Jan. 14, 2002. The detainees will be given a basic physical exam by a doctor, to include a chest x-ray and blood samples drawn to assess their health.

U.S. Army Military Police escort a detainee to his cell.

Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of Military Police.

Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of Military Police.

Zoom on the detainee:

In 2011, WikiLeaks released classified pictures of a few prisoners from leaked intelligence dossiers. Portraits of some prisoners taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross were released by their lawyers. Another series was published in June 2022:

Using the Freedom of Information Act, The New York Times has obtained from the National Archives less antiseptic photographs of the first prisoners who were brought from Afghanistan to the wartime prison in Cuba.

Released this year, these pictures were taken by military photographers to show senior leaders, chief among them Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the defense secretary, an intimate view of the offshore detention and interrogation operation in its early stages.

In September 2006, President George W. Bush officially stated that the CIA's secret interrogation program exists. Reportedly, the use of EITs ended in November 2007. There were videotapes, recorded from March 2002 to the end of 2002, destroyed in November 2005. In March 2009, news started spreading about the court papers confirming what, when, and where was destroyed. Tape destruction went under investigation by the federal prosecutor.

The Red Cross warned about the 'deterioration in the psychological health of a large number of detainees' in October 2003.

I don't know if there is any specific reason why (not when) waterboarding became an 'iconic' human rights abuse in this case. But:

Waterboarding entered the american lexicon on May 13, 2004, amid the scandal of Abu Ghraib, when the New York Times described the practice—“a prisoner is strapped down, forcibly pushed under water and made to believe he might drown”—and its authorization by the Department of Justice.

The article mentioned is 'Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited In Top Qaeda Interrogations'. It states:

In the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a high-level detainee who is believed to have helped plan the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, C.I.A. interrogators used graduated levels of force, including a technique known as ''water boarding,'' in which a prisoner is strapped down, forcibly pushed under water and made to believe he might drown.

Ironically, euphemisms used to describe torture were already a case for waterboarding itself: water torture, water cure and water treatment. 'Water board torture' was first used in 1976, and referred to what were US Navy trainees subjected to. Here is an article about the history of language used.

In May 2008, for the first time, a former detainee - Murat Kunraz - testified before the US Congress (via VC, as he was already released and living in Germany). In October 2021, for the first time the abuse was described publicly. Majid Khan detailed both the improper conditions and abuse during a sentencing hearing, delayed for nearly a decade.

Certain color drawings by Abu Zubaydah were already released in December 2019. The accompanying report, 'How America Tortures', contained around a dozen of pictures, some text, and redacted extracts from the documents. News about the full report, containing all of them, come from May 2023.

⠀ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES

EITs were developed to 'overcome the resistance' of the high-value detainees. Abu Zubaydah was the first of them, captured in March 2002 (above: photo from right after capture), and initially questioned in a 'classic' (no torture) way. He was incorrectly assumed to be a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda and to know more about possible threats to US national safety. CIA contacted one psychologist, formerly serving in the US Air Force, who together with another psychologist, became a CIA contractor, working on the EITs program. Its goal was to achieve learned helplessness (this is what made these techniques 'enhanced'), breaking the detainee mentally, so they would 'cooperate' with the interrogators. It was claimed to be scientifically justified. Leaving aside ethical problems - inducing learned helplessness has only been studied in animal models before. The program itself was made based on reverse engineering the SERE program. So: inspiration from studies done on dogs was combined with a program meant to teach soldiers how to resist interrogation and torture if captured. One of the points of this SERE program, though, was putting maximum effort to make sure that the trainees do not develop learned helplessness.

Using the name 'EITs' instead of torture is just one of the possibilities. Other examples: 'coercive interrogation', 'applying psychological pressure', 'harsh treatment', 'more aggressive techniques'. Not only the specific measures are described vaguely or euphemistically, but also the overall outcomes. The point of the EITs is to turn the detainee into an emotional clusterfuck. The more fancy description is quoted below the photo (left - James Mitchell, right - Bruce Jessen).

In 2002, the two psychologists – given the pseudonyms “Grayson Swigert” (Mitchell) and “Hammond Dunbar” (Jessen) – designed a system of interrogation methods euphemistically named “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs). They did this by reverse engineering the SERE program, refining techniques intended to disrupt detainees’ resistance, produce compliance, and understand the threshold at which the techniques could achieve “learned helplessness” [...]

In essence, Mitchell and Jessen’s goal was to “break” detainees to such an extent that any resistance to intelligence collection would be impossible. Their intention was to deprive detainees of a sense of control over their own minds through the use of abusive confinement conditions and brutal “interrogation” techniques. This they believed would ensure each detainee regressed to a state of extreme psychological debilitation, suffering, and submission. Theoretically, the interrogator could then “establish absolute control,” “induce dependence to meet needs,” “elicit compliance,” and “shap[e] cooperation.”

Significantly, Mitchell and Jessen’s EITs were intentionally designed to maximize suffering while showing no long-term visually observable physical manifestations. [...] interrogations were deliberately designed to have the long-term effect of breaking down both the psyche and brain function through the use of physical and mental pain and suffering.

Prior to Mitchell and Jessen’s program, “debility, dependence, and dread”[...] had never been used for interrogation by U.S. forces, although it had been studied and had influenced the CIA’s historical counter-intelligence strategies. The phenomenon of learned helplessness, effectively a continuation of that theory, had also been studied in animal models, but it had never been used, let alone demonstrated as effective for producing cooperation, accurate intelligence, or meaningful confessions.

Quoted from this document. SERE - Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape.

The most intense period was August 2002, during the 'aggresive phase' of testing EITs. This is when Zubaydah was waterboarded. It's commonly stated it took place 83 times, which is incorrect. This was initially the number of individual pours or splashes of water.

According to [the 2004 CIA report], the interrogation team decided at the outset to videotape Abu Zubaydah’s sessions, primarily in order to document his medical condition. CIA OIG examined a total of 92 videotapes, twelve of which recorded the use of EITs. Those twelve tapes included a total of 83 waterboard applications, the majority of which lasted less than ten seconds.

And, in his own words:

[...] during each session, apart from one, the suffocation technique was applied once or twice; on one occasion it was applied three times

These 92 videotapes were destroyed. 90 were showing interrogations of Zubaydah, 2 - of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The latter was also waterboarded. CIA officially confirmed waterboarding only of them two and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Few remarks from more detailed descriptions of testing EITs on Zubaydah, from CIA personnel in Detention Site Green (Thailand):

1. 5th of August. The medical officer was warned that almost for sure he hasn't yet been at this point in his medical career. He was warned about scenes he was about to witness being 'visually and psychologically very uncomfortable'.

2. 8th of August. Staff members were at some point wondering on how long the sessions can be carried on. They've been already 'profoundly affected' by the torture witnessed. A note from the same day mentions a few of them choking up and brought to tears.

3. 10th of August. Two or three staff members reported 'likely to elect transfer' away from the detention site, if the EITs would continue.

4. 10th of August. The interrogation team stated it was 'highly unlikely' that Zubaydah has the information needed by CIA. However, the Headquarters disagreed. Personnel were also concerned about the techniques approaching the legal limit. The answer was to stop using such speculative language in written communication, as 'it's not helpful'.

5. 11th of August. These viewing the torture tapes should prepare 'for something not seen previously'. Watching them caused 'strong feelings of futility (and legality) of escalating or even maintaining the pressure'.

6. Over this whole period, 'at times'. Zubaydah was going 'hysterical' and distressed to the level of being unable to effectively communicate. He frequently 'begged, cried, pleaded and whimpered', but continued to deny he has any more information.

One of the goals was to make sure that the detainee actually doesn't know, and isn't lying. If the interrogators weren't sure, the detainee would either be tortured or would make up stories. I wanted to know how it was assessed, but Mitchell's explanation didn't help:

Oddly enough, if you spend years and years and years watching people try to lie and tell the truth under various circumstances where coercion exists, you get some sense of what people are like when they’re lying or telling the truth.

That's a good part of the post to start complaining about not enough decent torture depictions being available. Decent in the gore context, for which Abu Zubaydah's drawings would be the best example. Many depictions are either former detainees' sketches or simple illustrations from other sources, e.g.:

Zubaydah's drawings were released through his lawyer, as they were considered 'legal materials' instead of 'art'. The detainees' artwork can be released, but not if explicitly showing their daily life in detention, interrogations or torture / abuse. The artwork shouldn't contain secret messages, too. Apparently, conveying one's emotions into the abstract art may be improper. Look at this Khalid Qasim's painting:

His paintings were showing both nautical scenes, landscapes or other nature-related sights and symbolic or abstract art. Qasim didn't intent to provide a proper interpretation, claiming that each piece carry several meanings, which the viewer should search for. He also corrected negative news, saying that his paintings 'are always powered by optimism rather than despair'. In 2022, prison authorities have stopped Qasim from sharing his artwork with the outside world; it's hardly possible for him to share the paintings with attorneys, too. (https://reprieve.org/uk/2022/01/08/art-from-guantanamo-khalid-qasim/)

'Vertigo at Guantanamo' by Pakistani detainee Ammar al-Baluchi, suffering from the brain damage after 'walling' (resulting e.g. in vertigo):

A few sketches by Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud were published in 2012. I just put two here; rest was, also simple, drawings of e.g. confinement box or board he was strapped to and turned around.

Below, some of the EITs on Zubaydah's drawings. Unlike the simplified depictions shown few paragraphs above, these ones actually express something emotionally.

Walling:

Waterboarding board:

Confinement box:

Stress positions:

Below, map of the black sites. Zubaydah was moved between a few black sites or other secret facilities - Thailand, Poland, secret prison in Guantanamo, Morocco (not controlled by the CIA), Lithuania, and unknown one, probably in Afghanistan. On 6th of September 2006, he was transported to Guantanamo - as a one among 14 high-value detainees - and remains there.

In 2015, Mitchell and Jessen were sued by the ACLU on behalf of three torture victims - Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and a family of Gul Rahman, who died in custody (November 2002 - hypothermia). The suit was settled out of court in 2017. Here's the video, nearly 10 minutes long, where both of these guys and the former detainees are interviewed.

Two men who proposed interrogation techniques widely viewed as torture are part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of former C.I.A. detainees. Deposition videos, obtained exclusively by The New York Times, reveal new insights into the enhanced interrogation program and the C.I.A. officials behind it.

They point out there Mitchell saying earlier that he's aware if someone was given a choice, they'd choose breaking legs over waterboarding as it's 'less distressing' for them. It's from the interview I will link next, after 18;00.

Here's the VICE interview with Mitchell, reportedly the first time he was interviewed on camera.

5;35 - main part of the interview starts.

10;30 onwards - there is a comment from the lawyer of Abu Zubydah, and some more loose talk with Mitchell.

13;30 - the interview continues, e.g. on 'Jihadi mindset'.

15;05 to 15;35 - short scene with volunteer waterboarded. Then the talk continues, with a few inserted scenes or photos.

21;40 - the final part of the interview, just in another place.

⠀CASE OF ABU ZUBAYDAH

Actually Zayn al Abdeen Mohammed al Hussein, born in in Saudi Arabia on 12th of March 1971. His capture and abuse by the use of EITs was already described. In July 2008, he filled a petition challenging the legality of his detention (month after the right to do so was granted to the detainees). Federal courts declined to rule on it for years. European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Poland (2014), Lithuania and Romania (2018) - all 'hosting' CIA's black sites - had violated the European Convention on Human Rights. ECHR ordered these countries govs to pay both Zubaydah and al-Nashiri in damages. Legal cases regarding either Zubaydah or him and other detainees were mentioned multiple times in the news; honestly, I don't get a half of them. In April 2023, a decision of United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was published:

The UN body reached damning findings on the unlawfulness of Guantanamo, torture and enforced disappearance by the US and the 6 other states that share 'joint responsibility' for the ongoing violations of our client's rights. It called for Abu Zubaydah's immediate release, after 21 years of arbitrary detention without charge or trial, as well as compensation and the investigation of what it terms "crimes against humanity."

Zubaydah was cooperative in the beginning, when questioned by Ali Soufan and his FBI partner. The interrogators were showing him photos from the FBI most wanted list. One of them was shown on accident, but Zubaydah recognized the unidentified man - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He was known to the FBI as 'KSM', and it was a surprise to both learn his identity and that he was allegedly a mastermind of 9/11 attack (apart from involvement in other attacks). After 10 days, Soufan was told to stop talking to Zubaydah. CIA agents thought that the detainee knew more - that could be obtained with EITs.

He was at first assumed to be a No. 3 member of the Al-Qaeda; was never a formal member, though. The 'corrected' versions of his affiliations are often vague, e.g. 'played a key role in Al Qaeda’s communications', ran a 'mujahedeen facilitation network', and had close contact with Al-Qaeda No. 2 member at the time (of the capture) . Apart from this, he was 'generally aware' of planning for the 9/11 attacks, 'possibly' coordinated training at a camp called Khalden when two of the future hijackers were there, and 'possibly' had advance knowledge on two attack (1998 and 2000),... The more precize mentions seem to focus on supporting the trainings in various ways.

Here's a 23 mins long video from Democracy Now!, including interviews with two guests: one of Zubaydah's lawyers and one guy involved in catching him (also CIA whistleblower). Timestamps after the intro:

1;30 to 3;35 - trailer of 'Forever Prisoner'.

3;35 to 10;30 - an interview about the Zubaydah's story, from capture through the early detention and torture to the report.

10;30 - beginning of the part strictly about the torture drawings and report. Also about their significance. 92 tapes destroyed by the CIA are mentioned (correction: from which 2 were showing the interrogation of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri)

Democracy Now! has alredy released a video on him, 'Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret', in October 2021. However, only the black and white drawings were included.

⠀ZUBAYDAH'S DRAWINGS

All 40 drawings were published in a report 'American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo' (download here), which you may have seen mentioned in the news, literally a month ago. However, certain drawings - both black and white, and these in color - were already published at least in 2018. It has both drawings accompanying the text and, later, pictures posted separately (in higher resolution). How these 130 pages look like:

1. First half is not so organized text (both informative and comments on the drawings and the torture depicted) with accompanying drawings. The second half is drawings in higher resolution, followed by the author's descriptions, only referring to this scene.

2. The drawings are far more detailed than the typical illustrative ones, which you can usually see in Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch Reports. It applies both to the amount of details and covered reactions. The faces of some of the interrogators and staff members had to be even censored for this reason.

3. Descriptions are also detailed, both these of the actions and the emotional sides. Mentions of how it looks like on moral / religious side are quite common.

A few I've chosen on my own criteria are below, for the rest - check the linked report. About the accuracy, for these wondering:

His drawings dovetail with the recent accounts of Dr. James Mitchell, a chief architect of the torture regime, who both wrote a book on EITs and testified in hearings on Guantanamo. These sources, together with the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provide the most complete – and compelling – account to date of America’s torture program.

Drawing 11. Exposing the detainee to the extreme cold. Fan and AC were cooling down the room, in which detainee was subjected to cold water while naked. Both the investigators and guards had proper clothing, suitable for low temperatures.

Drawing 15. A wooden soffin-sized box, in which the detainee was left until urinating on himself. It had two hatches, one for talking, another one for pouring water. During the interrogation, it was filled till the point of detainee's face - he wouldn't drown, but was already coughing off water.

Drawing 16. Restraining the detainee in such a way that they both can't stand straight and sit down. Insects could be intentionally put there (it's also known that detainees' phobias were used, once realized), also in large numbers. Zubaydah mentioned one or two scorpions, which were scary themselves, but even more when randomly disappearing from his field of view.

Drawing 23. For most of the time, if no interrogation or torture was going on, the detainees were wearing a hood. It could cover a headphones, ducktaped to one's head, either with the ear muffs (completely cutting off sounds) or with blasting music.

Drawing 24. One of a few scenes showing the female interrogator, improperly clothed, on purpose. In this case, the detainee was nearly hallucinating because of weeks of sleep deprivation, sitting naked, hungry and in cold. During the interrogation, two men in thick clothing were present. The female interrogator was very lightly clothed, and the detainee thought at first it's just a hallucination. He found it unacceptable to be forced to sit naked straight in front of a woman. During half an hour, she didn't get any answers from him, and left shaking from anger and cold.

Here is Drawing 25, another female interrogator scene.

I screamed at them that day, saying, “If you don’t want to respect me, respect this (female) interrogator…respect her feminism. Don’t be animals.”

They beat me hard until it felt as if my legs had fallen off; my genitals became more exposed rather than dangle. [...] I kept refusing and they kept beating me, thinking that I’m arrogant to deal with a female interrogator and for not respecting a woman, as they told me. On the contrary, I wasn’t being disrespectful, I refused because I was respecting her feminism. Though, I didn’t respect her as a person who agree to be part of this filthy work.

Drawing 27. Forced cavity search. If the detainee refused, he would be slammed on the floor, and the search was performed more violently. He claimed that it happened 'before, during and after movement from one cell to another; or from one prison to another; or from one country to another; or from one mode of transportation to another'. Usually, a finger was inserted, but sometimes it was a plastic, metal or wooden object. It also could happen that for the more humiliation, a female was watching, or guys were laughing at the detainee and mocking him.

(He isn't the only one mentioning the intentional, rather than 'natural'/spontaneous laughter, directed at certain type of actions)

Drawing 29. Forced rectal feeding and hydration. Technically - just a sexual abuse, because:

A coalition of medical physicians and professors stated that the practice “simply doesn’t make physiological sense,” and thus “there is no current medical reason” for its use. In referring to the CIA’s practice, it specified: “Pureed food and nutritional supplements, such as Ensure, should never be administered rectally,” as the colon cannot absorb pureed food. Although the CIA has tried to defend its actions as consistent with medical necessity, rectal feeding has little value in sustaining life or administering nutrients, “since the colon and rectum cannot absorb much besides salt, glucose and a few minerals and vitamins.” The larger U.S. medical community has been unified in its opposition to both rectal feeding, and, to a lesser but nevertheless significant extent, rectal rehydration, as humiliating and barbaric treatment that has “no place . . . in medical treatment today.”

(look up 'Rectal Feeding, Rape, and Torture in the U.S. Interrogation and Detention Program' for more)

Drawing 32. Rape threats. The detainee was stripped to the table (for hours or days), with upper body tilted. Previous drawings were showing force-feeding and hydrating - either anally or by tube inserted into the nasal opening. Staff members were trying to do this before he became unconscious. At the time, the prisoner would stay stripped to the table, and either piss or defecate under himself. The interrogations started from beating the rear end of the prisoner's body; sometimes hitting hands or feet, too. Threatening the detainee with raping him with a stick till the point of bleeding. Then - threats of 'just' raping, either him or the wife, daughter, mother (depends on the family), no matter their ages.

There was a word lacking in the text, '[...] and thinks'. I assume, from the context, it was about the interrogators saying and apparently thinking the things mentioned. And it were doubts about whether these techniques are even legal, or if they will regret it later, or maybe it were putting them in trouble. Abu Zubaydah wrote about his associations or moral views once again (it's quite common in this report), mentioning how the dark sunglasses and bandana made the interrogator look rather like a carjacker or another criminal. He managed to talk with one of them - before leaving the CIA black site - aware of him being 'the wrong guy', and dude felt like crossing the line in what he was ordered to do.

A few drawings that were published in 2018 after FOIA request:

⠀NEED MORE?

What if you want more torture and actually good depictions or descriptions? Have a list. I will shortly explain what's exceptional about this one.

1. Testimony of Jumah al Dossari. It is well-written, really detailed, and this also applies to the physiological level. Mainstream sites don't usually go into shit, piss, blood and humiliation in related topics. Here, author goes. If I was reading similar descriptions without knowing the context and not seeing Amnesty's site url, I'd think it was some description from an article on problems in the porn industry.

2. Documentary 'Guantanamo Guidebook' (2005). It is on YouTube as a 'Inside Gitmo: Terrifying Methods of Torture at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp' but age-restricted, I will put the links in the comments. It features volunteers put in the softcore procedures for a short period (around 2 days); on the other side were retired US Army interrogators and guards. You can see the volunteers do not enjoy it. This doc has sparked controversy and raised worries around the time of release, because of e.g. 'accustoming viewers to torture' (???), 'not having a clear point' or being a 'reality-show' in its convention.

3. 'Guantanamo Diary' (2015, then in 2017 published with previously redacted parts), by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was imprisoned for 14 years without charges. I barely checked through it, as the book has around 460 pages. Descriptions are detailed (emotional state descriptions have a different style than in the testimony linked previously), including the dialogues and some black humour. The author points out the irony of both the general approach towards the detainees and of specific methods of torture, like earrape with a song that has love-themed lyrics.

⠀THE INTERROGATION OF OMAR KHADR

On the left: Omar Khadr when 15 yo, photo taken in Afghanistan in 2002. On the right: photo 'recent' in 2015 (undated, though), taken in Bowden Institution in Innisfail, Alta., when Khadr was serving the rest of his sentence.

Khadr, born on 19th of September 1986 in Toronto, spent his first few years in Pakistan. In 1995, his father got arrested in connection with bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, later freed. In 1996, the family moved to Canada for a short period, then returning to Jalalabad in Taliban-controlled eastern Afghanistan, where they lived in Osama bin Laden's compound. Khadr spent the last few years before the arrest mostly on travelling between Jalalabad, Kabul (Afghanistan) and Peshawar (Pakistan; family owned a house there). He finished the 8th grade in school, and claimed he enjoyed school and horse riding as a teenager. On 27th of July 2002, coalition forces moved in on Khadr's compound. Two Afghan gov soldiers were killed, and several US troops were wounded. U.S. Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer was killed by a grenade, and Khadr was accused of throwing it - according to one witness, whose testimony (and a whole story) is questionable. The teenager himself was badly wounded. Arrested that day, he was transferred to Guantanamo in October 2002.

Below is around 8 mins long footage, showing the different angles of the same interrogation by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The original footage was about 7 hours long, and was recorded over four days - from 13th to 16th of February 2003. It appeared in the news in July 2008.

This report (link is directly to download) summarizes the four days mentioned, and the conclusions (or lack of them).

A more detailed timeline is linked in the sources (CBC website). In May 2017, Khadr underwent a 19-hour operation in Edmonton on a shoulder damaged during his capture. Two months later, the government publicly apologized Khadr, and it was confirmed that $10.5 million payout - mentioned a few days earlier - already took place.

⠀SOURCES (these not already linked)

Skipping some:

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/us0608/2.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-prisoners.html

Report on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (.pdf to download)

https://www.hrw.org/news/2008/06/24/war-teen-terror

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/omar-khadr-s-legal-odyssey-from-guantanamo-bay-to-apology-1.2987034

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/the-secret-khadr-file/

https://time.com/5886572/ali-soufan-black-banners-torture/

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf This is 700 pages long document, I only checked details on EITs and Zubydah's early 'interrogations' around pages 60-80

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/torture/out-darkness

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/10/timeline-20-years-of-guantanamo-bay-prison

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The trial of 29-year-old Dominik K. has been completed since the tragic event, which was widely known throughout Poland. The murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment, and he will be able to apply for release only after 35 years.

"I'm not going to appeal," - said Dominik, who was leaving the room accompanied by three policemen.

A court in Legnica has issued a verdict in the case of Dominik K., accused of stealing a bicycle pump from a sports store (...) we are kidding! Davir killed two women in cold blood. One of the victims was his mistress, with whom he drank teas and ate blueberry buns. During a meeting in a secluded place, when the victim mentioned his wife, he flew into a rage and smashed her head with a wheel wrench. It was her corpse that he later buried in a gravel pit. The second victim was his wife, whose corpse he hid under the floor of his son's room. The woman died from blows to the head with a hammer.

When Dominik K. was caught, he immediately confessed to everything, and during the site inspection he dispassionately described the course of the crime in detail. During the trial, he tried many times to play the mentally unbalanced card, but the court was not fooled.

One of his feigned furies can be seen in the video below. It is worth archiving them for posterity and showing them to children as a warning against murdering people. Not to do that, because you can end up like Dominik K.

On the recording, we can only hear the repeated words "YOU WHORES! YOU WHORES! YOU WHORES!..."

(I'm very sorry for so little information and for the lack of photos of his wife's corpse, but I can't find them anywhere. I'm asking you to write in the comments if you would like more of this type of documentary posts and what you think is still missing here)

This magazine is...

Dangerous!!!

A truck driver identified as Gerardo Morales suffered a fatal heart attack while waiting for food at a restaurant in Los Mangos, Comayagua, Honduras.

Above, you've seen part of the TVN24 coverage. This was nearly 7 mins long video, featuring Teresa Borcz-Khalifa and Marek Niski - the captain of MV Sirius Star, a tanker that was hijacked by the Somali pirates in 2008. There is no gore shown in this post (hopefully there will be in the next one). Just a parts of the pleading videos (I haven't even seen traces of the full versions - let me know if you've found any!), and a wall of text about the experience of being taken hostage.

TL;DR. Teresa Borcz-Khalifa was born in 1954, and moved to Iraq in the late 1970s, soon marrying an Iraqi men (they've met in Kraków). At first, they both didn't plan to stay there for long. She had a few various jobs, including a short period of working for the Polish embassy. On 28th of October 2004, she was kidnapped from her home in Baghdad by people from the Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Brigade. It was during the big hostage crisis, and news about Teresa Borcz-Khalifa were also on Ogrish. They didn't include the pleading video, though. Copy obtaineed from Al-Jazeera was aired by Polish TV (and that's what I will show you in this post). On 19th of November 2004, she was suddenly returned to Poland. The circumstances in which Polish special forces from JW GROM rescued her are still not fully explained. She was speaking with the journalists afterwards about her experience, views on the kidnappers (who clearly wanted some fame), and effects on her mental state. And, unfortunately, about how the gov didn't give a fuck as much as expected, leaving her without proper help. Since 2014, she's running a local foundation helping stray cats and engages in fundraising or helping other animals.

Sections go as follows:

1. Background on who was Teresa Borcz-Khalifa.

2. Kidnapping. Includes a wall of text about her experience - also how she felt about the kidnappers, and their interactions. She told the journalists that the kidnappers mostly wanted attention, and 'for someone to finally notice what is going on there' (in Iraq).

3. Rescue and life afterwards. Shortly saying, she was saved from the terrorists, but not from the Kafkaesque reality of everyday life in Poland.

⠀BACKGROUND

Teresa Borcz was born in 1954. After finishing high school in Knurów (west from Katowice), she moved to Kraków (around 100 km to the east, the capital of the neighbouring voivodeship). She chose the Slavic studies as a faculty. During a one-year-long internship in Slovakia, she made friends with a woman, whose husband was Iraqi. Through him, Teresa met Abdul Khalifa, her future husband. He was a student in Baghdad College of Fine Arts. After knowing him for 5 years, Teresa still didn't consider marrying Abdul. They were mostly exchanging letters. At first, she travelled to Iraq in 1976, for one month. She met Abdul's family, and even though she wasn't Muslim, the family welcomed her really well. The following year, Teresa moved to Iraq 'to stay there a while'. Her new husband wanted to return to Poland. But they've both stayed here for the following 29 years.

In Iraq, Teresa Borcz-Khalifa had various jobs. Some were related to the UN agencies. For one year, she'd been working in the Polish embassy, and was fired in unclear circumstances. It later fuelled some hearsay or 'alternative' stories about why she was kidnapped. But, first - that's nothing confirmed, and I hate politics, second - the post is about being hostage. For a few years, she also worked for a German-Swiss shipping company. In the mid-1990s, she was running the own store with the ladieswear and cosmetics. She was also a translator and a teacher of English in a school in Baghdad. There was no specific mention of the quarter (i.e. name), but her quarter was a 'good neighbourhood'. Khalifa family's home was a 400 sq m property (I'm not sure if it includes outsides or not) with garden. Teresa found life there satisfying, more logical and secure than later in Poland. Even though it was still Saddam Hussein's regime, she didn't feel oppressed, and thought that Iraq back then was a modern country. As someone not involved in politics, she felt rather safe, with no repercussions.

Other photos, from the documentary mentioned in the next section:

⠀KIDNAPPING

Ogrish news article, there was no video included.

Here, I wanted to include more videos (interviews), but gave up. If anyone knows where to add subtitles easier (quicker) than in OpenShot and without watermark, let me know. Teresa Borcz gave a lot of details in the documentary 'Porwani' ('The kidnapped', around 25 mins), about Poles taken hostage by Muslim extremists. It covered three stories: of Teresa Borcz-Khalifa, of Paweł Chojnacki (kidnapped in Chechnya in 1998, survived) and of Piotr Stańczak (kidnapped in Pakistan in 2008, beheaded).

There were short clips from the pleading videos, but with music over, and not in a better quality that in the attached video in this post. Mostly, it's some 'artistic version', with music in the background, zooming in, and all displayed in a way meant to resemble VHS tapes (not only this, as you've seen in the previous section).

The 'requests' made were similar to some other pleading videos, especially getting the foreign troops out of Iraq.

"Once again I call on you to help me save my life," she said.

"My life is in great danger. The one thing that will save my life is any response to the Iraqis' demands: by first getting the Polish troops out of Iraq and second, giving any help to release the female Iraqi prisoners from the various American prisons in Iraq."

"For the second time I am asking for the help of the Polish Government and the Polish people, I ask everyone who can help me get out of this situation, given that I am a Polish citizen and somehow is being made responsible for presence of the Polish troops on Iraqi soil."

Initially, Teresa Borcz thought that the men showing up near her house entrance were there for help. It was a normal situation to get such visitors. She didn't want to talk from behind the gate, and left outside - then the kidnappers dragged her inside the car. It had windows covered in a way unusual for this city and climate. Probably, Teresa Borcz was brought to Latifiya - a town around 40 km (25 mil) south from Baghdad. The choice of the hostage was weird, as usually the extremists targeted people having some connections to the Americans. Teresa Borcz was asked a few times to work as a translator, but she refused due to the ethical reasons. She considered this to be against her moral views, and was helping the Iraqi people since the beginning of the war - it was well-known in her neighbourhood. Various versions of why was she fired from the Polish embassy were reported. One was about too close ties with Iraqis and alleged hatred towards the Americans. Later, Teresa Borcz mentioned this as a possible reason for why she wasn't killed right away. Her kidnappers told them she'd be released, but decided to make use of her kidnapping - not for the money, but for their presence in the media. The group responsible, Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Fundamentalist Brigades, reportedly wasn't known before taking Teresa Borcz hostage. Given dates of the activity and founding of this group vary.

You could have noticed till this point that she was smiling in one of the videos. I can't now find one of the two sources explaining this. There was stated that she didn't want to give the kidnappers what they expected from the victim - the acting. As someone living there for nearly 30 year and married to an Iraqi man, Teresa Borcz knew quite a lot about their religion and culture. Initially, she was treated as an enemy, collaborating with Americans. The kidnappers threatened her with beheading, asked about it (quote from the documentary below), shown graphic video(s), and asked her to 'act' during recording the pleading video.

They've asked me if I've ever seen how does beheading look like? I told them that I've seen how they did behead Berg. - 'Ehhh but in the video there was nothing visible, you know', and they started to describe me. That they grab [them] by the hair, pull the head back, and with a really sharp knife - it's just enough to [only] push - they do [...] and then it breaks. They told [me] it breaks (looks up and tries to recall something) like a battiha... so like a watermelon. (smiles)

Teresa's mother also talked to the media.

"She is guilty of nothing. Hiding behind women, I don't know what sort of men these are. Making demands (by kidnapping) women, no religion has that," Halina Borcz told PAP news agency.

Negotiations weren't an option (quote):

President Alexander Kwasnieski of Poland has said he and his government are "trying to do all we can to help" the hostage -- but he drew the line at actual negotiations.

The remarks, part of a transcript of a radio interview on Friday, were posted on the president's Web site and they were confirmed by Polish authorities.

"Our embassy in Baghdad has been put on full alert for work and talks with those who would be ready to talk," Kwasnieski said on state radio. "Naturally, you must not negotiate," he added.

She refused to cry in front of the camera, and pointed out that showing death as a tragedy is against their beliefs.

Eventually, they've started to treat her better. She was provided warm water for washing, given food, and not restrained. It was different from the experience of Jerzy Kos, kidnapped with four Italians in April 2004, also in Baghdad. He told the press how they were chained and not allowed to talk with each other. There was no electricity or access to running water. Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't give enough fucks, and Kos' family found out that he was rescued from the news reports. (Just FIY, three Italian men were also rescued, and one of them was shot when the Italian gov refused to withdraw their troops from Iraq.) the Teresa Borcz recalled how nobody was entering the room without knocking, and she was always given time to cover her head. No physical abuse or restraining. She thought that the kidnappers could have been treating her better out of respect towards the women. There was one situation when she was actually afraid of getting shot - after she tried to open the window, covered by the blanket or pled, so it was really stuffy inside.

In that TVN news coverage, it was also later mentioned that she was noting her captors' names on the underwear, as well as drawn building's plan on it.

⠀RESCUE AND LIFE AFTERWARDS

Have another wall of text. First, part translated from the news article (there wasn't much focus on the rescue / release part in the above-mentioned documentary). Here, there's plastic mentioned, and in the TVN news coverage, she also mentioned a material similar to putty or filler.

The release was also peculiar. They told her that they're gonna release her, but didn't give any date. The day before, as it turned out, the release, she heard that they're preparing explosives. Then she realized she was sleeping on them that night. It started from the terrorists doing something under her bed. Putting in and out. Ms. Teresa wanted to know what's this. – I put my hand inside a bag, and pulled out a piece of plastic [...] She told they could make her into a [walking bomb]. Then, the kidnappers were driving her around Baghdad whole day. She was being driven in a car while wrapped in blankets, unable to see anything, terribly scared. Then, they've changed cars few times. She lost the count on how many times it happened. Eventually, the car stopped, and the driver went out. He came back with Pepsi for her. – I was afraid whether it wasn't spiked – she says. When they've reached the city center, they told her to take off the rags wrapped around her head. She noticed that they were close to the bridge, that she could use to reach home. She wanted them to leave her here, the terrorists refused, though. Ms. Teresa started to suspect that she may be blown up next to some American convoy, to provoke them. – It was the biggest worry – recalls Teresa Borcz. Suddenly, one of the kidnappers leaned over her, opened the door and said shortly: Get out! When the terrorists had finally freed her, she was just looking around to see from where the bullets will come. She fainted on the sidewalk. Polish soldiers took her from there.

There was a free preview of a book 'Trzynaście moich lat w JW GROM' ('My 13 years in the [Military Unit] GROM') about Teresa Borcz, which is apparently now removed from the internet. She was rescued by Polish special forces from JW GROM in cooperation with Government Protection Bureau (it was a counterpart of the American USSS). A day later, on 20th of November 2004, Teresa Borcz appeared in Warsaw at the press conference. There were no details given about the circumstances of her rescue, and apparently it's like this to this day. I've considered posting about her for weeks, and it seems that some websites has been removed over this time from the Google search index.

Both Teresa Borcz and the authorities didn't give any details on her rescue. Even though, the journalists were frequently trying to get the info out of her, as well as were asking dumb questions - e.g. how did so well-educated Western woman been able to live so long in the conservative East. She complained how some media tried to present her an oppressed woman, forced to convert to Islam, or were making up stories about her rescue and life in Iraq - 'enough to write a few different biographies'. The kidnapping (and beheading) of Piotr Stańczak, which could be a separate post here, revived her memories.

She missed her friends, home, and cats and dogs left in Iraq. Just as a life there - more logical and stable than in Poland, where she was e.g. surprised how it's hard to find a job with her experience and skills. She felt 'useless and marginalized'. After an initial success and enthusiasm in the media, the story turned darker. It's not only because of the trauma symptoms kicking in. Teresa Borcz told how she was unable to watch any TV movies and sleep, unless falling asleep exhausted around 3 or 4 AM. She wanted to cut herself off from the surroundings, keeping windows covered. In the late 2005, she claimed that life now is more depressing than when she was kept hostage. She tried to cheer up by trips to the mountains (it's quite close, as the Silesian Voivodeship borders both Czech Republic and Slovakia - the whole border runs along the mountains).

But the government didn't care enough.

Right after being rescued, she told that after being a hostage, she will fear nothing in her life. Now, she is revoking these declarations. She had experienced a life of an average Polish citizen, and admits to her fears. [...] Armed enemy was a [clearly defined] risk. One could know what poses a danger. Living in Poland is [about] the danger undefined, hazy, impossible to avoid. Poland is a Kafkaesque world.

One headline said: kidnapped in Iraq, abandoned in Poland. The first problem was the lack of ID card. Teresa Borcz only had her clothes and flip-flops, from one of the terrorists, when brought back to Poland - no documents. It took 6 months to issue a new ID card. She couldn't be issued one, because there was no registration of residence, but she could get any address registered without an ID card. There was also problem with getting an insurance. She couldn't get back anything from her home in Iraq, including favorite dogs. There was nobody to rely on, apart from the family - elder mother and sister, having not specified health problems. I couldn't find out how her marriage ended up, but probably her husband stayed back in Iraq (as I concluded indirectly from one article from the end of 2005). Back then, Borcz family was living in a 22 sq m apartment. On 2011, Teresa Borcz was planning to move to Kraków, I don't know how it went.

According to National Court Register, Teresa Borcz is running a local foundation helping stray cats from 2014 until now. She was mentioned in the context of helping animals (fundraising, adoptions, volunteering in the animal shelter etc.) at least from 2009. That foundation's Facebook fanpage stopped posting in June 2018, and I was unable to find any new one. Silesian organizations or volunteers helping both cats and other strays seems to be active, though. It seems that Teresa Borcz is still active with spreading the fundraising pages, hard to tell what else.

⠀SOURCES

https://tvn24.pl/polska/polacy-wspominaja-jak-wiezili-ich-terrorysci-ra500230-3420418 (first video) coverage + the mentioned documentary 'Porwani'

https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/news-porwana-w-iraku-porzucona-w-polsce,nId,806963

https://www.enowiny.pl/artykul,6421,z-dwoch-roznych-swiatow.html

https://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000319.html (pleading video quote)

https://uwaga.tvn.pl/reportaze/uwolnieni-z-rak-terrorystow-ls6688526

https://www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl/polka-rekach-terrorystow/

https://dziennikpolski24.pl/codziennosc-nie-jest-porywajaca/ar/3083218 (quote about the Polish reality)

https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/news-porwana-w-iraku-porzucona-w-polsce,nId,806963

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Firozabad, India

In a tragic incident, a class 2 student in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, died suddenly while playing. The boy, identified as 8-year-old Chandrakant, was a student at Hans Vahini School. The incident occurred on Saturday when Chandrakant was playing with his friends during lunchtime at school. The incident was caught on school's CCTV camera.

According to the video, Chandrakant suddenly fell while running and did not get up. School teachers immediately rushed him to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Though the exact cause of his death remains unknown, heart attack is suspected. The sudden death of the young boy has caused a state of shock and grief among his family.

https://www.latestly.com/socially/india/news/sudden-death-in-firozabad-class-2-student-collapses-while-playing-inside-school-premises-dies-of-suspected-heart-attack-disturbing-video-surfaces-5810393.html

I dont have any Informations about the incident.

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Comedian Tommy Cooper dies of cardiac arrest during a performance (April 1984).

In the wings, show producer David Bell asked Cooper's son if the fall was part of the act. He replied that his father had a bad back, and wouldn't be able to get back up if he fell on purpose. After it became apparent that Cooper was in trouble, Alasdair MacMillan cued the orchestra to play music for an unscripted commercial break (noticeable because of several seconds of blank screen while LWT's master control contacted regional stations to start transmitting advertisements) and Tarbuck's manager tried to pull Cooper back through the curtains. They continued the show after the commercial break. [Wikipedia]

"One of Cooper's stunts was to pay the exact taxi fare and when leaving the cab, slip something into the taxi driver's pocket, saying, "Have a drink on me." That something would turn out to be a tea bag."

E: corrected title thanks to @TrueSpyCrap

Part 1: Gore

Horrific injuries, maimed and mutilated body parts etc.

Part 2: Roadkill

Horrific automobile accidents, people hit and run over by cars and truck etc.

Part 3: Drowning Victims

Tsunami Victims, Various other Drowning victims etc.

Part 4: Mass Casualties

War Crimes, genocide, mass graves, disasters, mass murder etc.

Part 5: India Train Ride

Photos of comically over crowded trains in India.

Part 6: Morgue & Autopsy

Various Morgue and Autopsy photos

Part 7: Suicide

Hangings, shotgun, pistol, poison etc.

Part 8: Murder Victims

Victims of Serial Killers, Mutilated Victims, homicide victims etc.

Music

Season of the witch by Donavon

You better run by The Beatles

The sound of silence by Johnny Cash

Demons Call by BatchBug | https://soundcloud.com/batchbuMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

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!memento_mori

Please god they need to burn in hell, fuckin idiots

Remember to stay safe people....

-Look both ways before crossing the street

-Always wear your seat belt

-Stay away from South America

-Drop the knife when an American Cop tells you to

• Don't piss off Bulls

• stay out of the water if you can't swim

• Pay your drug dealer what you owe

• Don't drink and drive

And watch your step!

!Memento_mori

Long video showing the siege of the police station 17+ minutes

Aftermath video

Other related videos

Google translated

Fonte Boa - This morning, the angry population took justice into their own hands in the municipality of Fonte Boa, and invaded the Police Station of the 55th Integrated Police District (DIP), where the perpetrator of the rape and death of the 10-year-old girl who had the body hidden under a bed. Armed with stones, machetes and pieces of wood, the residents vandalized the police station and set fire to almost all of the police units' vehicles until the police were no longer able to maintain the integrity of the prisoner, identified as Ronald Gomes Borges, 28 years old. According to preliminary information provided by a police officer from the unit, the police team that was on duty tried to contain the population as much as possible, to maintain the prisoner's integrity, but when they saw that the integrity of the police officers was threatened, they could do no more. nothing, the population managed to invade the police station and take Ronald.

Source: https://portalsinallivre.com.br/imagens-fortes-populacao-revoltada-de-fonte-boa-invade-delegacia-esquarteja-e-ateia-fogo-em-corpo-de-estuprador