Friday, October 14, 2016
Updated : Yesterday 1:55 pm
- Published : Yesterday 12:07 pm
Saddam Hussein reportedly had secret torture chamber in NYC
Alexis Sachdev
The dictator jailed family members of those who defied his tyrannical rule at an Upper East Side location, according to anonymous Iraqi sources.
An Upper East Side mansion that houses the Iraqi diplomatic mission once featured a basement chamber where political enemies of Saddam Hussein were tortured, according to an exposé by the New York Post.
The newspaper cited annonymous sources in describing the torture chamber inside the mansion, which is located across the street from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's residence.
Hussein revamped a room inside the mission into a "detention room" after rising to power in 1979, anonymous Iraqi officials told the Post. It reportedly served as a jail for local Iraqis whose family members living in Iraq had angered the government. Iraqi Intelligence agents imprisoned people there as leverage to persuade their relatives in Iraq to surrender to Hussein's government.
http://www.metro.us/new-york/saddam-hussein-had-a-secret-torture-chamber-in-nyc/zsJpjm---NiOCPKIPHsqdE/
