Shackled hostage found in Fallujah
US forces found a shackled hostage during their house-to-house searches in Fallujah.
Marine Major Francis Piccoli said the man was chained and shacked at his wrists and ankles when he was found in the north-east of the city yesterday afternoon.
Piccoli said he did not know the man’s nationality but that he was not a Westerner.
The prisoner had been beaten by his captors and was very malnourished, according to medical assessments.
A variety of weapons was discovered at the site as well, he said.
Video footage showed US marines speaking to the man, who said he was a taxi driver and had been held for 10 days.
The man, who was shirtless and wrapped up in a blanket, had what appeared to be bruises on his neck and back.
Speaking through an Iraqi translator, the man said his captors put cuffs on his legs and hands and beat him with thick electrical cable. He said he thought he would be killed.
He also said he had not been given food or water for several days.
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