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2009-04-22 Arabia
ABC News Exclusive: Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh
A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails....
HT: Free Republic ([link]). Best real-life-imitates-Monty-Python-Sketch moment:
"The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior," the Interior Ministry's statement declared. The Minister of the Interior is also one of Sheikh Issa's brothers.

The government statement said its review found "all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department."

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-22 16:12|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 And of course, Read The Whole Thing.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-22 21:56||   2009-04-22 21:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Never mind all that. But was he waterboarded? And what about the Comfy Chair Treatment(TM)?
Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-04-22 22:44|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2009-04-22 22:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, the Mercedes he was run over with was probably pretty comfy.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-22 22:46||   2009-04-22 22:46|| Front Page Top

#4 So, what was this fellow suspected that he received treatment outside a "pattern of behavior"? Whatever that means.
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-04-22 23:00||   2009-04-22 23:00|| Front Page Top

#5 The co-chairman of the House Human Rights Commission, Rep. James McGovern (D-MA), said the existence of the tape requires the U.S. to take action.

The oil-industry-loving Bushitler is obviously going to ignore this incontrovertible evidence implicating his sand tick cohort. But wait a minute. Isn't the Bushitler no longer president? Surely the Great Ogabe will put the sheik on trial for war crimes. Oops! Wrong headline - it's Bushitler officials he wants to put on trial.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-04-22 23:19|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2009-04-22 23:19|| Front Page Top

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