Saddam Hussein’s Shocking Torture Chamber Uncovered In New York City

In a plot that sounds straight out of a violent movie, it has been discovered that Saddam Hussein’s regime operated a torture chamber in the United States, in an underground basement in New York City, and the operation of this torture chamber spanned several decades. Saddam’s henchmen, who were known as the Mukhabarat, operated the center, and on a surface level, the Mission of Iraq was presumed to operate as an embassy for Iraqi people.

The henchmen didn’t go out and search for Iraqi people who were of use to them — they waited for them to show up at the mission as ex-pats who needed information or assistance. Then, they would be taken to the torture chamber, where copper wire, electrical cords, rubber tubing, and other instruments of torture were utilized. People were beaten badly and fingernails were pulled out, and sometimes the detainees were killed.

It sounds unbelievable. Why didn’t anyone notice their relative was missing, and why didn’t anyone come forward if they had been released to say that they had been held and tortured? According to reports, it’s because they were not born in the U.S., and they feared Saddam Hussein. They were Iraqi people living in the United States, and they were of use to Hussein for one reason: to be used as leverage against their relatives back in Iraq, according to the New York Post. Usually, the relatives back in Iraq were not cooperating with the tyrannical government, and the torture of their relatives was done to encourage their cooperation and surrender to the government in Iraq.

In fact, dead bodies of Iraqi people living in the United States who had been killed by the Mukhabarat were shipped back to their relatives in a way that circumvented customs and kept everyone in the United States in the dark, said one official, who confirmed that Iraqis were killed and their bodies shipped back to Baghdad right under the noses of United States officials.

“They just put [the body] in a diplomatic box and it can just be shipped. This is diplomatic — nobody has the authority to examine it or open it.”

This building was located on the Upper East Side right across from Michael Bloomberg’s home. The Mission of Iraq was established in 1979 and had a “detention chamber” installed in the basement of the five-story building, according to two Iraqi officials, who have broken their silence to speak about the situation but wanted to remain anonymous. The Telegraph reported the officials’ description of the detention room.

“It was a dark room. The doors were reinforced in a way that nobody could break in or out. You didn’t need to soundproof it. You’re not going to hear someone screaming down there.”

The officials said that people were often held for up to 15 days before either being released or killed. Saddam Hussein’s bloody regime came to an unofficial end when U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003 and sent Hussein into hiding. He was discovered and tried for his crimes and executed in 2006 for crimes against humanity. The officials said that the American government dismantled The Mission of Iraq in 2003, and the informants believe all evidence of the atrocities that took place there was removed.

“US government officials came in. They took hard drives, computers. They went into vaults — they smash them open. Officially, they were running Iraq because we didn’t have a government. We got the mission back in less than a year.”

The Mukhabarat were sent back to Iraq at that time for good. Approximately 3,000 Iraqi people went missing and were never accounted for, alive or dead, under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

At the time of this writing, no comments from the U.S. government concerning this information has been reported — all information seems to lead back to the New York Post breaking this story from Iraqi informants who are not named.

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