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[Jonnax]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/13/saddam-hussein-had-secret-torture-chamber-in-new-york/

Saddam Hussein had a secret torture room built in the basement of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York's Upper East Side, it has been reported.

The Iraqi dictator ordered the installation of the "detention room" inside the five-storey building at 14 East 79th Street when he rose to power in 1979, two unnamed Iraqi officials told the New York Post.

“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,” one official said. The other official added: “You’re not going to hear someone screaming down there.”

In 2014, the subterranean space was converted into a kitchenette during a full renovation of the mission costing approximately $120,000 (£100,000), the Post reported.

According to the officials some of Saddam's most trusted agents were sent to the New York Mission to set up the operation.

While the true scale of the killings is impossible to calculate, according to Amnesty International, a "prison cleansing" campaign claimed 3,000 lives in 1997 alone. Some 300,000 Iraqis are thought to have disappeared during his rule.

Well this is shocking. I wonder what other embassies around the world have hidden away.

 

[Podge293]

I'd say most Russian and American embassies built before 1999 have some form of torture chamber.

Hell probably still do build em in.

 

[Fat4all]

Zero?!?

 

[SpaceWolf]

Like who...who the hell would they torture in there?

 

[JordanN]

Like who...who the hell would they torture in there?

 

[Podge293]

Like who...who the hell would they torture in there?

Suspected traitors that were working for the embassy would be my guess

Edit: or Santa

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

The only thing that would top this is if they found out the property was own by Trump or something

 

[chaobreaker]

I'd say most Russian and American embassies built before 1999 have some form of torture chamber.

Hell probably still do build em in.

What happened on the year 2000?

 

[Maximo]

Not Santa's balls!

 

[StickSoldier]

Santa doesn't deserve that treatment... He's delivered happiness to everyone around the world! What have those shitty ass terrorists done, well, other than bring terror that is.