"Come in, you are safe."

It truly is sad when the people of a government are being intimidated so much that they can't report that their people are being tortured.

"Come in, you are safe," along with "Long Live the Islamic State," is what was scribbled on the walls of a newly found torture chamber in Iraq. Food wrappers, plastic soda cans, electric wires, chains hanging from the ceilings, swords on the floors, etc. were all found in the dirt floor cell. This room was hidden in Muqdadiyah which is about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Many of the swords, beds, and weapons that were used in the torture chamber are still covered in blood. According to U.S. Army Major General Mark P. Hertling, there were nine graves that contained the bodies of 26 people. Judging from the bodies, it was said that they were about 6-8 months old and the troops said that it was hard to identify them because of the advanced decomposition. This chamber is assumed to have been in use for over a year.

(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_torture_
chamber;_ylt=AsDySdzbncEdqvqkrdEXc7es0NUE)

The chamber was found somewhere between December 8-11 when troops conducted an operation and the troops who found the chamber killed 24 people who they thought were terrorists and arrested 37 people who were under suspicion. There was enough evidence to prove that people have been intimidated, tortured, and murdered in this room. They found mines, pipe bombs, grenades, and 130 pounds of homemade explosives. What's also shocking is that the people of the village said that they knew about the torture chamber but were to afraid to report it because they were too intimidated by the extremists.

(http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/19/iraq.torture.complex/
index.html?eref=rss_world)