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(17 Apr 2003) SHOTLIST 1. Exterior Abu Ghraib prison 2. Mid shot prison walls 3. Saddam Hussein mural at entrance to prison 4. Close up of Saddam mural 5. Mid shot of prison door 6. Mid interior of cells 7. Overhead shot of former prisoner Radi Mehdi walking inside the prison 8. Mid shot Radi walking past cell 9. Close up Radi walking past cell 10. Mid shot of Radi entering cell 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Radi Mehdi, Former Prisoner: "This cell was mine. We were 45 men in here. Thirty slept while 15 stood in this corner. We slept head to head while the 15 men were crammed in the toilet. They stood here until dawn. " 12. Mid shot exterior of cell 13. Mid shot interior of cell 14. Mid shot Radi entering 'punishment cells' 15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Radi Mehdi, Former Prisoner: "They would put men in here from five to 10 days. After they were punished, they would be put back into our cell." 16. Pan down interior of tiny punishment cell 17. Exterior of execution building 18. Mid shot nooses on ground 19. Mid shot nooses hanging from ceiling of execution chamber 20. Nooses hanging over trap doors inside execution chamber 21. Close up noose 22. Shot from beneath trap door looking up to noose 23. Wide shot gallows inside execution chamber 24. Mid shot Radi walking up to Saddam Hussein mural inside prison, spitting on it and saying (Arabic) 'bastard' 25. Saddam Hussein mural STORYLINE Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, notorious for its regime of torture and executions, now lies empty, stripped clean by looters who hauled away office furniture, computers, sewing machines and inmates' belongings. Former prisoner Radi Mehdi returned on Thursday to the cells where he was held between 1982 and 1991 for refusing to fight against fellow Shi'ites in the Iran-Iraq war. The 47-year-old says he was tortured and kept in overcrowded, inhumane conditions before he was released during an amnesty shortly after the First Gulf War. He reported witnessing others also tortured, some kept in tiny solitary confinement cells, and hearing fellow inmates' cries of "Allahu Akhbar" (God is Great) each time an execution took place. In the execution ward, the two nooses still dangle from the ceiling. The metal arms that the executioner pulled to yank iron trapdoors from under the feet of the condemned are there, too. Critics of Saddam's regime have told the world of the disappearances, torture and summary executions that awaited anyone suspected of plotting against the Iraqi leader or challenging his policies. Much of that reportedly took place in Abu Ghraib. Former inmates have told of chemical and biological weapons experiments on prisoners and the execution of hundreds in the 1990s as part of a campaign by Saddam's son Qusai (Qusay) to ease crowding. The prison belongs to the Ministry of Social Affairs but was run by Saddam's feared intelligence department. In October, a blanket pardon by Saddam sent home thousands but it was never clear whether political detainees benefited from that amnesty. A group of foreign journalists arrested in Baghdad late last month was held in Abu Ghraib for a week. Newsday's Matt McAllester said he and his colleagues "were aware of the screams of other prisoners, especially at night when they were taken out of their cells". The four slept on concrete floors in 6-by-11-foot (2-by-3.8-meter) cells. Up to 25-thousand prisoners were held in the sprawling compound 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Baghdad. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...