Tape Shows UAE Royalty Torturing Man with Cattle Prods, Planks with Nails, Etc.

[snot]

"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.

"A 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."

More at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099 .

I hope this isn't one we outsourced.

Hopefully someone else already posted this but I didn't find it.

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Yep. We are dealing with total assholes here.

Torture is a psychosexual phenomenon, not a military one. Its time to focus on the truth here.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. "Torture is a psychosexual phenomenon ..."

That says it all.

:thumbsup:

--d!

[safeinOhio]

3. As a result of what we've done

and our lack prosecution, what can we say? I think the guy might be related to Cheney.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. agreed.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Awful, but America has lost the moral credibility to influence other countries on torture.

Bush ruined us

[MADem]

6. "I hope this isn't one we outsourced??" Did you LISTEN to the report? At ALL???

The guy was a GRAIN dealer, who shorted the prince on his grain delivery to the tune of about five grand. It was horrific, what the prince did, but we had shit-all to do with it.

That was "royalty" acting like the Sopranos....it had absolutely nothing to do with the US government.

If we've done something wrong, it's appropriate to chastise. It's inappropriate, though, when the evidence is plainly presented to the contrary, to always think the worst.