ABC News to show video of UAE Royal Sheikh torturing man

[grantcart]

Explicit video shown here - advises it will be shown on ABC News tonight

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099&page=1



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.

Brian Ross InvestigatesA man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim's arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh pours salt on the man's wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.

In a statement to ABC News, the UAE Ministry of the Interior said it had reviewed the tape and acknowledged the involvement of Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the country's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed.

"The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior," the Interior Ministry's statement declared.

[ShortnFiery]

1. But those from the blessed UAE are our illustrious and civilized Muslim FRIENDS?

:crazy:

[Mari333]

4. yes they have the oil so we must suck it up nt

[HillbillyBob]

19. I realise we can't do without all oil, but we are taking our homestead

as close to fossil fuel free as we can. I know I have repeated over and other ad nauseum.
If we cut our energy needs to the bone we would not need to buy it from people who hate us, I sure don't care to give my $ to someone that does not like me or I don't like. I live by that, if a company hates gays or outsources our jobs I do my very best to find someone with the right politics or makes what I want in the states.
We also moved to a place to make a farm of, it costs us about half for the payments that the rent in town did. We could not afford the rent in town as it went up again. Now our payments are less than 600$ instead of 1275$.
We have cut our power needs by about half, using insulation/ curtain liners, cooking slow in covered pots, lots of littler power saving things.
We are actually more comfortable, we have a projector tv it shoots a 100 inch pic on the lr wall and uses less power than a tv does(and I can read the crawl on the news again!), CFL lights as they fail swapping to LEDs, super efficient appliances replacing ones that die even if we have to save for several months to get them.
It is good for the environment, its good for our very thin wallets.
We plan to install a solar water heater this summer, eventually we will be installing a solar pump set up for our well. Our solar water heating set up will also have pumps that run on solar panels, yes it will cost up front..but we won't be beholden to the power company for that part and they get most of their power from coal which is mined in WV mountain destruction.
So if we are not buying Saudi oil we won't be part and parcel of their bad behavior.

[mod mom]

2. Horrific, sadistic. What the fuck is wrong with some people?

The John Prine song "Some humans ain't human" comes to mind. :(

[Mari333]

3. oh my fking god

its pretty horrible to watch
now, lets see the tapes of the torture our country does...
its like the floodgates are opened on abuse and torture today..

[ShortnFiery]

5. I wish there were back-ups to what tapes OF OUR TORTURERS that WE DESTROYED.

Nobody has a claim to the moral high ground any longer. :(

[CJCRANE]

6. Interesting timing.

Predictable freeper response: those sheiks are worse torturers than American torturers.

[leftstreet]

8. A little too interesting n/t

[Occam Bandage]

7. "were not part of a pattern of behavior"

Yes, he just woke up one day and said, "Hey, you know what would be crazy? If I were to whip, electrocute, beat, and then use my Mercedes SUV to run over somebody. And we'll tape it!"

Isolated event. Definitely not a human rights issue.

[alsame]

15. Hey, he was probably just

having bad day :sarcasm:

Or maybe it was an audition tape for Cheney.

[Vinnie From Indy]

28. Right!

Sadistic bastards like that start young.

[ohheckyeah]

9. Oh my god

words don't describe how disgusting that is.

[gratuitous]

10. Oh! Well, if it's not part of a pattern of behavior

No problem, then. I mean, it's not like Sheikh Issa (isn't that the name of a California congressman?) does this all the time, or maybe not even every day. We're not going to get all snitty about this, are we? I suppose if Sheikh Issa had driven a Humvee over the hapless victim there'd be some stern words to be said, but it was just a Mercedes.

[CJCRANE]

11. Is it just me

or does anyone think the neocons have called in a favor?

(to take the spotlight away from them)

:shrug:

[sufrommich]

13. I don't think this takes the spotlight away from them. Give the

majority of American people some credit, they know that torture is torture,if anything most people watching will recoil in horror and reject the premise of America mimicking these monsters.It drives home the point that we do not want to be THAT.

[CJCRANE]

14. It just reminded me of this:

(high quality torture photos that turned out to be fake)



There's something fishy about the timing.

[anigbrowl]

25. CjCrane has a point, though...

Compared to this, some will argue that waterboarding isn't that big a deal, had a noble purpose, etc. You can expect to see the right all over this, saying 'Now THAT's torture! Not what we did...'

[cali]

12. "were no part of a pattern of behavior". wow. just wow.

[hvn_nbr_2]

23. Yeah, they stopped occasionally for tea. It wasn't a continuing pattern. nt

[sixmile]

16. Probably learned from Uday and Qussay

Two of the modern era's most prolific torturers.

[Occam Bandage]

21. Nah. The UAE is much closer to America than it was to Saddam's Iraq. nt

[Mr. Ected]

17. David Kurtz Comments That This Reminds Him of a Monty Python Skit

"This is the sort of response I'd expect if Monty Python were running a country's internal security force: Yes, the sheik did it, but it was merely a one time thing, so no need to be alarmed -- and our policeman followed all the rules, the first of which is do whatever the the sheik says. Carry on, now, carry on."

[HillbillyBob]

18. Did anyone see the comments?

Bleeding heart libruls indeed. You know these people would not last 4 minutes.
I have been repeatedly beaten in what amounts to be torture I lived I'm not the same these weakminded idiots would be cryin for mommy before they were even touched.
What is wrong with their minds or their outlook up bringing? I don't know. I can't even think of words descriptive enough.
I bet if the Ds had done any water boarding they would be screamin for blood in the streets.

[merh]

20. And the freepers will say "see, the Saudi's torture, we just make

people uncomfortable and pull frat jokes on them."

:grr:

[Uzybone]

22. Christ!

and these are the "moderates".



ETA
what a shock:

Sheikh Issa's lawyer, Bristow, has moved to have the case, which also involves allegations surrounding their business dealings, transferred to courts in the UAE.

Wherever it is heard, said Bristow, "You may be assured that in due course the one-sided "story" being told to ABC by the Nabulsi's and their lawyers will be completely addressed and the Nabulsi's will be discredited," he said in a letter to ABC News.

The "'story that we think ABC is being told is grossly misleading; it is in large measure demonstrably untrue; and it is defamatory to Sheikh Issa." Bristow represented George W. Bush in the Florida recount case in 2000. Among the firm's partners is former Secretary of State James Baker.

[Azooz]

24. The story is 7 months old - at least

I remember the story from last year and it might be even older:

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Brother Tortures Victim;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12-xL5oC_Y

[grantcart]

26. but unfortunately no longer available - atleast it is getting a higher profile now.

[riderinthestorm]

27. One word answer: rendition.

Its not as though we didn't ship out a fair number of people who were tortured by these guys on our behalf.

So we did it ourselves AND shipped them out for more torture elsewhere.

Still doesn't get us off the hook.

[EFerrari]

29. AND Leon Panetta is reserving rendition as a "good tool". n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. SO? We have our own demos to expiate

yep horrific torture... and what is the point?

Why not show the very graphic tape of US personnel sodomizing a child?

We know we've done it...

Oh wait, they're evil, they're torturing (and your point is) and we are as pure as lambs

:sarcasm:

the timing is curious

[Duppers]

31. the last few paragraphs on page 4 at the OP's link:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099&page=4

Sheikh Issa's lawyer, Bristow, has moved to have the case, which also involves allegations surrounding their business dealings, transferred to courts in the UAE.

Wherever it is heard, said Bristow, "You may be assured that in due course the one-sided "story" being told to ABC by the Nabulsi's and their lawyers will be completely addressed and the Nabulsi's will be discredited," he said in a letter to ABC News.

The "'story that we think ABC is being told is grossly misleading; it is in large measure demonstrably untrue; and it is defamatory to Sheikh Issa." Bristow represented George W. Bush in the Florida recount case in 2000. Among the firm's partners is former Secretary of State James Baker.


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Whoops, this is a dup. Uzybone had already caught this. Bristow is a huge piece of shit.