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Freed Iranian diplomat: 'I was kidnapped and tortured by the US'
Apr 7, 2007, 12:51 GMT
The Iranian flag flutters over the Iranian embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday, 04 April 2007. An Iranian diplomat who arrived in Tehran Tuesday upon release from Iraq was quoted Saturday as saying he had been kidnapped and tortured there by US forces, the official IRNA news agency reported. EPA/MOHAMMED JALIL
Tehran - An Iranian diplomat who arrived in Tehran Tuesday upon release from Iraq was quoted Saturday as saying he had been kidnapped and tortured there by US forces, the official IRNA news agency reported.
'I was transferred to a base near the Baghdad airport after the Iraqi agents working under the control of the (Central Intelligence Agency) CIA kidnapped me,' Jalal Sharafi, second secretary of Iran's embassy in Baghdad, was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Armed militants dressed as Iraqi soldiers had kidnapped him in the Karada area of central Baghdad on February 4. Iran harshly condemned the abduction as a 'terrorist act'.
'The CIA agents' questions were mainly about Iran's presence and influence in Iraq,' said the diplomat, adding that 'they had severely tortured me when they faced my answers about Iran's official relations with the Iraqi government.'
The allegations follow claims by 15 British naval personnel the previous day that they had been subjected to intense psychological pressure in 13 days of Iranian custody after being seized in the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
Five other Iranians were arrested in January by the US military at a consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil as part of the effort to confront alleged Iranian meddling in Iraq.
Tehran insists the five men were consulate officers and were not involved in militant activities. Washington accuses them of being members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and providing material support to Shiite militias.
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Yup! they certainly are liars. They should learn from Bush and Blair about being honest. NUKE them.
There have been _confirmed_ reports of US soldiers (claimed to be working alone) abusing and torturing Iraqi/Iranian prisoners. Considering the USA's apparent inability to control their soldiers and to put their actions where their mouth is on the torture issue, I think any claim made against the US in these respects should be taken seriously.
Few Americans, and even fewer so-called journalists these days, are aware of the Islamic mandate to 'lie' to infidels. IntolQ. America's successful democracy is based on the esteem for truth.
iran is the dumbest most poopy pants country in the world
Few Americans, and even fewer so-called journalists these days, are aware of the Islamic mandate to 'lie' to infidels. . America's successful democracy is based on the esteem for truth.
I think when he was arrested, it is impposble to think he was given Oranege juice for the breakfast! and for british sailors, if Iran believes they were in its territory, well, they also shouldnt expect Orange juice! being captive is different from reserving a room in Hilton Hotels
Visaris -- tell the truth if you can. The Persian people are hostage to their own pitiful contempt for truth. And therein lies the reason they are such a backward and deceased society. Any Arab or Persian with a sense of honesty has immigrated to the US just to get away from the filthy decaying culture of lies that shrouds the middle east.
How prejudiced and ignorant are the supporters of these liars!
Does G-Bay exist in US or in Iran? IN US ONLY
Did Iran kidnap a political person of the west? NO
WHY THE MAN HAS TO SHOW HIS WOUNDS? CIA CELLS AROUND THE WORLD, G-BAY ARE EVIDENCE ENOUGH.
The western civilization is subhuman.
All you retards that say US forces didn't torture this guy are really living in an alternate reality. Our 'Attorney General' Gonzalez has APPROVED TORTURE as a way to garner information from our 'enemies'. Nuke them all? Do you have the slightest idea what the consequences of that would be you racist freak? No more oil to fuel your SUVs, or at the very least 8 or 9 dollars a gallon. I know that rednecks like you can't afford that, what with all the beer you have to buy. A World War WOULD ensue, and I bet that you aren't willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed for us to even have a chance to win that. We need to get every single American out of the Middle East, We have no business there, NONE. America has reserves of oil to last far longer than it would take to develop and implement a new, renewable, fuel source. I apologize for using words with more than 3 syllables, READ A BOOK! America WAS the best counrty in the world until we started this war, and started pissing on the Geneva Convention, and the Constitution. It is time for the real Americans to stand up and take this country back from the bible thumping, racist, 'money trumps peace' assholes that are currently in charge.
All muslims are lying little pigs,ship them all out of the civilized western world.
Truth will prevail only when the western civilization ends
Truth? You speak of truth? OK here's a couple of truths:
Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks TRUE
White people (Aryans) originally come from Persia/Iran TRUE
Iran has not captured or tortured anty US diplomats or consulate officers TRUE
'President' Bush 'shortcircuited' for 7 minutes after he was told of the 9/11 attacks TRUE
Our troops were sent to Iraq without the proper training or equipment, and expected to
Visaris,
'I think any claim made against the US in these respects should be taken seriously'. Yes, we should believe anything we hear without physical evidence. Especially if it comes from the ever-so credible Iranian government. Are you Mike NiFong? Did you work the Duke LaCrosse case?
If you ask me, their 'diplomat' was just taking a page out of the al-Qaeda manual ...to allege abuses regardless of whether any occurred. Makes me wonder if they should have let him go in the first place.
And what you are witnessing is the beginning of the end of that
It would not be surprising if the Iranian diplomat was tortured, but it would be hard to prove without a confession on the part of someone in the CIA or a 'defense contractor' like Blackstone. That's not like to happen for several decades at least, if at all. But it really doesn't matter; ever since the Bush administration endorsed the use of and engaged in the practice of torture, the US surrendered the moral high ground. Anyone held captive by US forces can claim to have been tortured and the claims have the exact same degree of validity as claims that our people were tortured by someone else's forces. Just don't leave any permanent marks. It takes decades to build trust; it sure didn't take long to destroy it. What Nixon did was bad; what Bush did was infinitely worse.
Jick,please be careful, I'm worried that you'll trip over your mullet and knock out your tooth.
Response to 'nottheamericaiknow', I agree with every word you wrote, but must take exception to you asking rednecks to read a book. Puhleeeese!! Don't waste your breath. Those people don't know how to read!! They know only how to 'listen'....to lies, half-truths, and most importantly, 'spin' that comes out of talking heads on Fox News, the White House press secretary, and every other 'Bushie' in this debacle of a 'current administration'!! Oh, and one more thing about your statement that I must also take exception to -- when you use the word 'we' to proclaim who started this war. 'We' as in 'America' didn't start this war!! Bush and his cronies started it, and by lying about the 'evidence', made Congress culpable, as well.
Why is Monsters and critics - Deutsche Presse-Agentur calling this clown a 'diplomat'? There are recognized protocols involved for diplomatic status. This creep was not a diplomat.
Man! I can't believe how ignorant most of you are. It's mindboggling. I guess that would explain the state of our counrty and it's morals, though.
lookingforwardto01/09,
My bad, you're right. I will admit that I, too, was buying the bullcrap in 2002-2003. So that is why I referred to the people who are leading America to destruction as 'we'. I have to be honest with myself. I have long since realized my mistake, and am committed to doing everything I can to change that. It is refreshing to know that someone out there isn't hell bent on a nuk-u-lar war with Arabs. People are so stupid, don't they realize why our country has only used the 'bomb' twice, even though our stockpiles number in the tens of thousands? It would lead to the end of the world. America has appr. 300 million people, China and Russia (Iran's main supporters) have close to 2 BILLION people. Don't you think that when our status as a world superpower is downgrade in ten years or so, that those two countries won't use their newfound 'moral highground' as an excuse to wipe us of the planet. Bush takes his policies directly from the pages of Mein Kampf. Polarize your population through lies and propaganda to destroy 'our' enemies. Hitler hated Jews, Bush hates all non-white, non-Christians.
nottheamericaIknow/lookingsoforwardto01/09
You won't have much to look forward to, we will still be under threat by islamic terrorists and we will be , according to their own words until we completely abandon the middle east and convert the USA to an islamic state.
People like you two just love to take to the internet and post sanctimonious, nonsensical, masturbatory diatribes about how anyone who recognizes that we have been repeatedly attacked and have to face down these monsters is a redneck who doesn't 'know how to read'. (Undoubtedly your self-congratulatory talking points gleaned from the brain trusts at daily kos or common dreams) It is obvious that those who can not allow themselves to see through their overwhelming, irrational, visceral hate for George Bush enough to recognize that we have had war declared on us don't know how to 'think'.
Before you take to your soap box and sound off like some pompous ass adolescent who has been indoctrinated instead of educated may I suggest you actually grow up and stop making excuses for terrorists because of your resentment at losing the elections. Either that or move over there and join the jihad against us, because that is what you are effectively doing by wanting us to roll over in the face of monsters who fly aircraft full of people into buildings full of people.
'Bush hates all non-white, non-Christians.'
What a deranged idiot you are.
I was just thinking, people are always saying that America invaded Iraq for oil, etc. Now, I don't have a PhD in economics, but my price at the gas pump in America has actually gone up these past few years. If we control the oil in Iraq as some people claim, we control the supply...but the economics of reality do not support this accusation. Leads me to believe that, hey, maybe we didn't really invade Iraq for the oil.
So here's what I propose for Iran. People don't believe that we actually want to liberate people from tyrants, even if thats what we want. People wouldn't believe that we would invaded Iran because of an act of war (kidnapped soldiers, supplying Iraqi insurgency with weapons, etc). So lets just forget trying to look good for the rest of the world and actually invade Iran for oil. I'm tired of paying high prices at the pump and it would be nice to have our own private supply.
With this solution we kill two birds with one stone. We wipe out a terrorist country and we get some monetary compensation for the people of America. Maybe colonize them for a while so they learn to be civilized for the future and actually contribute something useful to the modern world (algebra was like so 11th century dude). Foreign nations always think we're evil no matter what we do, so lets actually get some economic benefit from doing whatever we do that pisses off the world. A kill some terrorists while we're at it!
Kill 2 birds, Hidden Imam.
Kill 2 birds, Hidden Imam.
Fisrt let me address Hidden Imam. Please tell me why we have to be in the Middle East? For the Oil? Let me 'educate' you on a couple of facts. First, America supplied Saddam Hussien with the capability the develop his WMD's in the 80's, which he then chose to use on the battlefield against Iran, then on sick experiments against the Kurds, so who harbored the 'terrorsts'. Iran is not a 'terrorist' state. The 'acts of war' you speak of are weak excuses. Henry Ford supplied the Nazi's with jeeps in WWII. He is the only non-german to receive the German equivalent of the Medal of Honor. Those are acts of war, too, by your definition, so shoul;d we attacjk Ford Motor Co. Too? Muslims do not want to turn America into a Muslim state. They just want their region back. Don't belive everything the bumbling idiot that sits in the Oval office says, learn to recognize propaganda. If America could extract itself from thier land, including all military installations, use the money we would save , Billions, possibly trillions, to develop renewable energy sources at home, we would not need any oof the resources of the Middle East. America also needs to stop bowing to the Jewish Lobby. The United Nations STOLE Isreal from the Palestinians. Gee, I wonder why Arabs are so pissed off at us and Isreal. Imagine if Africa took Georgia and Mississippi for an African state to compensate for slavery. You'd be pissed off too.
Kill 2 Birds, please get a PhD, or at least a degree in economics before you open your ignorant mouth. We DO NOT need Iran's oil to lower the prices at the Gas pump. What we pay for Gas has very little to do with supply. In Fact, we have more oil now thatn we did last year at this time, and I'm paying nearly 3.50 (tree-fitty) for a gallon. Energy traders, and the oil companies themselves are driving up the prices, not people in Iraq and Iran. Iraq wasn't about Oil itself, it is about controlling the price of Oil. Bush and Cheney both stand to make Billions after they leave office by sitting on the boards of the oil companies that are stealing the Iraqi's main exportable product. Renewable energy is a golden egg waiting to be hatched. The money this country could make, the jobs that will be created, it's a no'brainer. By the way, maybe you shouldn't bash Algebra, especially since you're a amatuer economist that needs Algrebra! Our number system comes from the Middle East, a basic thing that the western world could not do without.
Shut Up Fool, please prove me wrong. I'd like to hear your rationalization for your comment. Remember Katrina. Our countrymen died in the streets amongst the rats and trash for 4 days before Bush did anything!
Bring it ON
No, I'm not the hidden imam. I'm just one of those Christian Americans.
Anyway, its just no liberal with (or without) an education has ever refuted my argument intelligently. Nobody can explain why oil prices continue to rise despite the fact we 'secure' oil in Iraq. If anything the counter-hypothesis is true. Invasion of Iraq has destablized oil prices. Perhaps it is high time we stabilize them again and take over Iranian oil fields (BTW, the people who are actually gaining most from newly awarded Iraq oil contracts are not us, but our Communist/Socialist friends Russia and China...and notice how quiet they are about what's going on in the Middle East).
If the VP was so rich of Iraq oil + Haliburton, why is he still VP? If I were rich from oil, I'd quit politics in a heartbeat. Who needs people telling you how crap your are, etc. when you could just buy your own private island somewhere and not have to deal with people. Or maybe, just maybe, we took Iraq for non-oil reasons...
Power, mi amigo, Power. How can Bush and Cheney create policy if they are not in Power. Duh. If you're a 'Christian' how can you advocate the killing of 650,000 iraqi civilians, 3300 of America's sons , daughters, mothers and fathers in the oil fields of the Middle East, over a thousand American civilians in the Gulf Coast? Christianity is destroying our country faster than Bush and Cheney ever could. Do you hate muslims? Please, I beg you, respond.
KillTwoBirdsOneStone,
Aaaahhhh, a professed Christian American -- Here we go!!!
For all the people that posted things like, George Bush & Blair always tell the truth or Iran is a 'poopy country', or just nuke'em....
You're all blind. Not one of you has any idea of what will happen if we attack Iran do you? Oil will skyrocket, Russia and China will fund them, our relationship with the 'friendly' Islamic countries will spoil, our market will start seeing dramatic drops, our military budget will double overnight, we WILL see those sleeper cells everyone keeps talking about here, China will use the war a economic gain and a lot of other bad things will prevail.
I read comments by people on these sites and I laugh because 90% of you have no idea of the repercussions of the actions of our government in the last 15 years. Oh and don't pin me off as a Bush hater because they all messed this up starting with the movie star.
Like torture is not in our intelligence rulebooks. Abu Gahrib, Gauntamo and in CIA camps everywhere. Bush tells the truth? Thanks I haven't laughed that good in a while.
Before this gets started, I want to shoot down an argument I'm sure that coming: 'America was Built on Christianity'. NO it was NOT. America was built on the right of Religious Freedom. Just because the only religions that came over here were christian-based (radical zealots in Europe), that doesn't mean that Christianity is 'America's Religion'. Obviously, I am an Atheist (free thinker), but I do not have the right to deny your free practice of whatever religion anyone else practices. What I do have a right to do is fight against the government using religious 'values' to create domestic and foriegn policy. Read the Constitution, and you'll clearly see the passage prohibiting the government from endorsing any particular religion. Unfortunatley, Yale doesn't teach a class on the Constitution, or maybe Bush would realize this. Wait, Bush nearly failed out of Yale, when he wasn't powdering his nose or tipping the bottle.
Good to see a Real American somewhere. Hear Hear!
In the information age, most information is crap.
2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
this story was written by a German for the english speaking audience.
Considering the problem of telling the truth, either as an action or as a detection is obviously difficult. It seems that we humans have a hard time telling the facts, the real truth of whatever, and also that we have difficulty identifying when others do so, or even what the truth actually is. Sorry state of affairs.
'Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah be he slain or be he victorious, on him we shall bestow a vast reward. How whould ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the feeble among men and of women and the children who are crying: Out Lord! Bring us forthf fromout of this town of which the poeple are oppressors! Oh, give us from Thy presence some protecting friend1 Oh, give us from Thy presence some defender. Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is always weak, hast thou not seen those unto whom it was saind: Whold your hands, establish worship and pay the poor-due, but when fighting was prescribed for them behold! a party of them fear mankind even as their fear of Alla or with greater fear, and say: Our Lord!Whyu hast thou ordained fighting for us? if only Thou wouldst gove is respite yet a while! Say (unto them, O Muhammad): The comfort of this world is scant; the Hereafter will be better for him who wardeth off (evil); and ye will not ber wronged the down upon a date-stone.
Wheresover ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Ye if a happey thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening.' Surah 4:71-78
So it would seem that the enemy is wrong, even if he is right.
'Let's stop claiming to dominate nature and the world; let's stop making possession a superior end. Let's put our cherished deviancies, such as the manufacture of desire and its bulimic satisfaction, back in their place. Today's progress must be situated on the side of being rather than of having. Moreover, tending toward equitably-distributed well being compatible with our planet's capacities at home and toward helping the most destitute to live better supports rational growth. The measure of this new growth must be taken according to scales integrating the human and ecological impacts.
Let us dream: A politician takes the side of talking to us about the world as it is, as it risks becoming; he or she forecasts not sweat and tears, but difficult tomorrows; she or he proposes that we talk about it, as responsible citizens, and allows us to perceive robust paths along which to advance, with a smile, towards the era of less ... A less that will consequently take on the character of better'
Winning by Sharing - a state of cooperation between individuals, companies and nation states where there is a continuous fair exchange of value as opposed to the prevailing nature of business and government that is predicated on the notion of 'I win. You lose.'
'SP4: Notice, no authorApr 7th, 2007 - 17:45:05
In the information age, most information is crap.'
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If the man was 'severely' tortured, he should have fresh wounds that are in the process of healing. Show us these wounds. Give us the details. Did he see his interrogators? What did they look like? What sort of room was he kept in? What did they give him to eat...et cetera.
Noharness -
I think Nancy Pelosi visited him after Assad thus the torture. They probably showed him reruns of the veiw also
' Please tell me why we have to be in the Middle East? '
Why do we have to be anywhere? ... The point is here are we gooing to give terrorists a veto over our foreign policy?
'Let me 'educate' you on a couple of facts.'
Whenever I hear that I brace myself for the non-facts and prejudice that usually spout forth from the ill informed yet smug...
'irst, America supplied Saddam Hussien with the capability the develop his WMD's in the 80's, which he then chose to use on the battlefield against Iran,'
Wrong. Saddam got his 'WMD' capability from whomever would sell it to him. Mostly from France and Germany. His conventional 'WD' moistly came from China and Russia. Your blame the USA for everything programming doesn't hold up here.
'then on sick experiments against the Kurds'
Those were directly traced back to Germany...So again, you are just flat wrong. Your blame America for everything programming doesn't work here.
' Iran is not a 'terrorist' state. '
Wrong, just flat wrong, you pompous idiot: Since 1979, Iranians or Iranian funded and controlled terrorist groups have; invaded the US embassy and held our diplomatic staff for 444 days, took American journalists and a British minister hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley, bombed the US embassy in Lebanon killing 17 Americans, bombed the US barracks Beirut which killed 241 Americans on a peacekeeping mission, bombed the Khobar Towers killing 19 Americans, hijacked an aircraft and killed Robert Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac, bombed a Jewish center in Argentina, killing 85, their proxy Hezbollah has started several conflicts with Israel, including the one last summer which left hundreds dead. They still have a bounty on the head of Salmon Rushdie for writing a book that they didn’t like, they have provided the Shiite death squads in Iraq with training and material as well as the Sunni death squads that go after the Shiites with the objective of creating as much bloodshed in Iraq as passable. They have also been supplying shaped charges and shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles to kill coalition troops. They Chant 'death to America' on a daily basis in their schools and Mosques, they continually threaten to wipe Israel off the map, they have mined the Strait of Hormuz, they publicly lynch girls for being 'disobedient', they publicly lynch boys for being homosexual, they publicly lash women for the crime of being raped, they stone women to death for infidelity, they censor their news, They beat a Canadian journalist to death because she wrote unflattering stories, they murder political dissidents, invented the suicide bomber, They have kidnapped British sailors and held them hostage....
You are just flat out wrong... Your blame the USA for everything programming doesn't hold up here.
' Henry Ford supplied the Nazi's with jeeps in WWII. '
Wrong... Not after the declaration of war on the US by Germany..
'They just want their region back.'
Iraq doesn't belong to them...Neither does the middle east. They need to figure that out quick.
'Muslims do not want to turn America into a Muslim state.'
Those were bin ladens terms of surrender. That was a major justification for why we were attacked. Because we we are kafur.
'. Don't belive everything the bumbling idiot that sits in the Oval office says'
Dont be an apologist for terrorists and people who want to murder us because you dislike Bush.
' learn to recognize propaganda.'
Yeah, that shameful Iranian stunt with the head scarves and the polyester suits while releasing the people they kidnapped seems to have taken you right in.
'. If America could extract itself from thier land, including all military installations, use the money we would save , Billions, possibly trillions, to develop renewable energy sources at home, we would not need any oof the resources of the Middle East.'
More made up 'facts'. Oil would jump through the roof, we would be abandoning Israel to a pack of hungry dogs (which I am sure you would love) and we would be abandoning the people of the Middle east to the thug theocrats who want to rule them with an iron fist. No... not a good deal for anyone. .
'The United Nations STOLE Isreal from the Palestinians.'
BULL
'I wonder why Arabs are so pissed off at us and Isreal. '
Stop it with the 'us' bulllshi-... You are not one of 'us'.
' please get a PhD, or at least a degree in economics before you open your ignorant mouth.'
I actually have one... Why don't you graduate from kindergarten before you open yours.
'In Fact, we have more oil now thatn we did last year at this time, and I'm paying nearly 3.50 (tree-fitty) for a gallon. '
So you are not in the USA then...
'Energy traders, and the oil companies themselves are driving up the prices, not people in Iraq and Iran. '
No, supply disturbances have nothing to do with the price of oil..... Smart guy.
Threats of cutting off the strait of Hormuz don't drive up the price...
'Iraq wasn't about Oil itself, it is about controlling the price of Oil. '
It was about fighting terrorists and establishing democracy in the Middle East. (Pearls before swine)
'Bush and Cheney both stand to make Billions after they leave office by sitting on the boards of the oil companies that are stealing the Iraqi's main exportable product. '
Bush and Cheny are going to retire, like 99% of the other presidents.
'Our number system comes from the Middle East, a basic thing that the western world could not do without.'
That was several thousand years ago... Their latest contribution to humanity has been the suicide bomber and the internet moron.
'Shut Up Fool, please prove me wrong.'
I just did.
'Our countrymen died in the streets amongst the rats and trash for 4 days before Bush did anything!'
Stop pretending you are an American Ali... And it was a hurricane... they have been known to happen even before bush was around to blame.
' 'America was Built on Christianity'. NO it was NOT. '
America was built BY Christians. Religious freedom means a separation of church and state, not the freedom to threaten our way of life with an alien political philosophy with religious trappings.
'Obviously, I am an Atheist (free thinker)'
You think whatever best confirms your prejudice.
'but I do not have the right to deny your free practice of whatever religion anyone else practices. '
You have the right to protect yourself from it if it becomes a threat.
'Wait, Bush nearly failed out of Yale, when he wasn't powdering his nose or tipping the bottle.'
Again, not true... He got better grades there then Kerry.
This just in from IRAN:
The reformist website Rooz reported on April 5, 2007 that the Friday prayer leader of Shiraz, a city in the heart of Iran, had called for more public punishments, as prescribed by “hodud,” Islamic penal law.
After a convicted thief’s hand was amputated in public in Kermanshah, Ayatollah Mohiyeddin Shirazi, an appointee of the supreme leader of Iran, criticized the halting of public punishments, and added, “Those who say that practices like amputating hands belong to the past are themselves part of the past.” He also claimed that imprisonment had no effect “on educating criminals and reducing crime.” ...
Kermanshah judiciary head Allahyar Malekshahi promised more amputations in the future and said that citizens had requested the public amputation.
According to Rooz, following the punishment Malekshahi told IRNA that the punishment had been approved by Iran’s Supreme Court. He added that if thieves “don’t want their hands cut off, they should stop stealing.” Also, the Etemad daily quoted Kermanshah’s governor as saying that carrying out hodud in public “has a visible effect on controlling the crime rate.”
I am constantly shocked by the level of ignorance, racism and downright stupidity displayed by some Americans in these sorts of comments.
'Nuke them'? Please just get a clue before pressing the little keys.
in response to nottheamericaIknow America was obtained by genocide 120 million people died in north America alone not including south America . where is the truth on that with the world, the biggest war crimes in history dealing with germ warfare then sweep it under the rug rewrite history burn every thing written down, teach for generations lies . seems to a lot of people that the white people want everything very greedy i know not all of them are like that . what happened to 1 world 1 race the master plan was to mix all races to unlock our potential seems to me that will never happen at the rate the world is turning so negative. and with the recent actions buy the Canadian gov branding native people as terrorists , the only people that wont be labeled terrorists are the white people . multicultural say no to racism my ass they are good at it ill give them that . the end is near for our cycle (the human race)the world cannot sustain us to much longer , the thing that gets me is that the world was made to last forever not just 2000 years of consumerism now you tell me that the almighty dollar is good , consumerism is killing the planet. all this bad political relations between different country's it all comes down to control , if who ever is in charge cannot control a country or people they are branded as terrorists, not everyone is the same we the people of this planet of all races and creeds have free will a lot of us think individually a lot of people think they know what is going on but they are scared to say because they feel alone and vulnerable . so unless there is divine intervention of some sort, world catastrophe , alien intervention a world spiritual awakening we are all doomed every man, woman, child, plant, animal, everything. You guys want to talk talk about the truth .
peace out humans
There's a huge assumption.
Thought of the Day:
Scratch the surface of any conflict in the world today; and there is better than a 90% chance that there are Muslims involved.
What A BANKRUPT GROUP MUSLIMS ARE;
qUESTION:
WHAT HAVE THE MUSLIMS GIVEN THE WORLD SINCE THE MIDLLE AGES???
ANSWER;
THE SUICIDE CAR BOMBER, AND THE BIG LIE.
yeesh......poor sole....not like getting beheaded or stoned for be homosexual or being female in his country.........oh oh poor baby.....what did they do...give you 2 meals a day instead of 3, or maybe not wipe your diaper, when it needed changing. Iran is more likely to cause more torture then any other country(well unless its a dictatorship) then anyone else. Who do you think the Iragis would be rather arrested by? the US and not the muslim Iragi forces....yeesh.
shut your mouth muslim lover,go to iran and get the f out of america,you are not welcome.
...then you were not tortured by any Americans.
Gringo, Kippers, get outta my house and I won't break into yours. I just wonder who the hell do you think you are? Attacking the entire muslim world (full of oil) in the name of what? Democracy (whatever that means)? Pack it up and go home where you belong. I might be Christian but my heart goes out to my Muslim brothers.
What astupid argument you are giving for diplomat abducted and tortured by US, the team leader of torture bearers. You HIDIM belong to G-Bay.
Fu*k off Claude you Muslim apeaser. May God griddle your belly and your Muslim Brothers too.
'Freed Iranian diplomat: 'I was kidnapped and tortured by the US'
Sure he was, at such a convinent time as well. Any of you guys notice how well timed this latest allegation by Ahminajihad is, Brit sailors get released after be being forced into making BS confessions, then abraqdabra an Iranian suddenly pops up to claim CIA torture. Add this to the comical coordinate breifing (where the Iranians screw up their own lie) to the so called 'embassy riot' where 200 'young men' (not military in plain cloths of course) trun up with fire crackers to show how upset Iran is ...lol.
If your still with me here, now we can add in the timing of the Hez offensive aginst Israel last yr being the same time as initial sanctions against Iran were being considered by UN(ohh and Syria being accussed of murder, chinless little retard..snigger). Then add in a pinch of denile of suppling arms to shite terror groups in Iraq, plus weapons grade uranium found by UN inspectors on centrifuges that Iran claims was the fault of Pakistain (hehehe) and what do you get?
A big steaming pot of Iranian BS soup.
If you dont want to be rational and think for yourselves by all means declare yourselves enemies of the west, declare war if you like, we repect that. But please quit posting such Rossie O BS about western conspiracy when clearly your paddling along that river in Eygpt...de-nile.
if you believe arabs you'll believe anybody, but the truth.
your right we don't beleive the killer bush .
this guy is no different
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NoharnessApr 7th, 2007 - 13:23:27
Severely tortured? Did they show pictures of this guy? He should have healing wounds to display, right?
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