There is the story of Kadhim Sabit al-Datajji, 61 at the time of the American invasion, a resident of the poor Shiite neighborhood called Sadr City (and formerly called Saddam City). He had seven sons. No one in the family was in Saddam’s Baath Party. Neighborhood Baathists questioned him, wondering why, accusing him of secretly being part of an opposition party. He spent eight years in prison. There’s the story of Farris Salman, whose tongue was pulled out with pliers and cut out in front of his family and neighbors by the black-hooded paramilitary thugs led by Saddam’s eldest son, Uday.
