New book tells of author’s experiences in torturous prisons of Saddam Hussein’s regime

Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq is no more. Although many would like to bury this country’s gruesome past and never look back, many of the victims of the mass graves and the torturous prisons of Iraq desire to have their horrible stories preserved to ensure that the evil they endured is never forgotten - and never repeated. In his new book, The Bitter Time: Scrap of Paper Smuggled of Iraq’s Prisons, Ala`a Al Jaffar tells his true, personal story of being taken to multiple Iraqi prisons in the 1980s and suffering countless acts of violence and inhumanity