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Thursday, September 18, 2003
Whatever happened to...

...the plastic shredder?

"See Men Shredded, Then Say You Don't Back War," by Ann Clwyd
"There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food ... on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Hussein's youngest son] personally supervise these murders."

This became part of the general fury against Saddam before the war, but is it - like the story of "babies being thrown from incubators" before Gulf War I - a fabrication? It was apparently spread by UPI, the Washington Times, Pat Robertson, and the State Department. So where is this "plastic shredder"? Like the story, it appears to have just....evaporated.

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