(2 Dec 2004)
1. Pan of street outside suspected torture house
2. US Marine standing guard with weapon drawn outside building
3. Group of US Marines walking into building
4. Armed US Marine watching for snipers around building
5. Tracking shot following US Marines to the stairwell leading to basement
6. Basement wall smeared with blood
7. Bloody handprint on wall
8. Bloody handprints on ceiling
9. Shoe on blood-smeared floor
10. Blocked ventilation shaft where fingernails were found
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major Alex Ray, US Marines:
"Based on the evidence we found, we believe that people actually were held here and most likely tortured. We found enough blood and evidence that we believe that it was used to torture prisoners. What type of prisoners we don't know. We are of course - we took samples and we are trying to get those tested."
(Question: What other things besides blood were found here?)
"What I've already told you is we did find fingernails in the wall there from what looked like they were digging their way out, but that's all that was found here. There were no bodies."
12. US Marine displaying printed propaganda found in house
13. US Marine kicking door, pan down to tapes and wires on floor
14. US Marine walking out of building's hallway
STORYLINE:
United States Marines in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday inspected a third location where they say people were tortured, pointing to blood-smeared walls and propaganda scattered throughout the site as evidence.
It was unclear when US forces first discovered the site, a large two-storey building with a cellar.
US Marines have already been through the house, and experts have taken away much of the evidence found there for analysis.
US Marines went through the house again on Thursday to make sure insurgents hadn't reoccupied the building before they escorted journalists inside.
Bloody handprints were clearly visible on the walls and ceiling, and the floor itself was stained a red colour.
On one wall, near the ceiling, was a blocked ventilation shaft with iron bars where US Marines believe prisoners tried to dig their way out.
Major Alex Ray of the US Marines said human fingernails were found in the dirt and walls.
The house inspected on Thursday is in southern Fallujah, a neighbourhood which, despite weeks of bombardment by US forces, remains an unsafe area.
According to Ray, printed propaganda found inside the house shows it was an operations centre for a group called the Islamic Resistance.
Unlike the first two houses, however, Ray said the US Marines did not find any computers or videotapes which showed the torture carried out there.
It is also unclear how many people were held at the site and when, or whether people were killed there and their bodies removed before the US Marines arrived.
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