Posted on 04/22/2009 12:26:27 PM PDT by gandalftb
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.
"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 brother.
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In America, bitter wives hit their husbands with the family car.
Is it not the will of Allah?
I hope your wife wasn't actually raped. I hope you meant that if your wife were raped, you'd be willing to do those things to the rapist.
Tortured to death because he may have skimped on a grain delivery.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
“The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior,”
Oh, well then, if he only did it once....
I think he was in a “stress position” when he got runned over.
WASHINGTON: As a trusted adviser to a member of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates, Texas businessman Bassam Nabulsi says he safeguarded the sheikh’s most important documents: financial records, investment documents and videotapes showing the sheikh torturing people with a cattle prod and a spiked plank.
When the business relationship began to deteriorate, Nabulsi says, he also was imprisoned for months and tortured by jailers trying to get the tapes back. Now, the tapes could become evidence in a federal lawsuit against Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a son of the late UAE president and brother of Abu Dhabi’s crown prince. By custom, a member of the Al Nahyan royal family serves as president of the UAE.
The lawsuit and the tapes could prove embarrassing to the UAE, a US ally that promotes itself as a pro-Western nation catering to business travelers and tourists. The tapes have not been made public but The Associated Press viewed 11 still frames from one of the videos. They showed a man who appeared to be Sheikh Issa beating another man with lumber, firing an automatic weapon into the sand around him and forcing an apparent cattle prod into his anus.
The victim also appeared to have been partly run over by a SUV and had salt poured on his wounds. Lawyers said the video also showed the victim's genitals being lit on fire. They said the abuse began because the sheik felt he had been overcharged in a grain deal. “Ultimately this video, or certainly large portions of it, will be played in court,” said Anthony G Buzbee, who represents Nabulsi in his lawsuit.
The UAE Embassy in Washington released a brief statement Monday, saying it was aware of the lawsuit but, since the government itself was not being sued, it would not comment on the accusations. Neither the UAE Embassy nor a Washington public relations firm working with the UAE government had an immediate comment on the case or the videos. Nabulsi is suing for millions he says he is owed for various business deals.
He also charges Sheik Issa and other members of the royal family with false imprisonment and with torturing him. Buzbee says he has three other torture videos. If he prevails, his lawyers said they would try to seize Issa’s US assets, which could include portions of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world and has an estimated $875 billion in assets. Last year it invested $7.5 billion in Citigroup.
The lawsuit has been languishing in a Houston federal court for nearly two years as attorneys tried to serve Issa and others with court papers. Efforts to deliver the documents to the royal family through UAE lawyers have failed and a confirmation of mail delivery was returned unsigned, according to court records. A federal judge gave Nabulsi’s lawyers until the end of the month to try again and, if unsuccessful, explain why the case should not be dismissed. The lawyers filed an amended lawsuit Monday describing the videos in greater detail. Nabulsi worked for years making arrangements for Arab investors and dignitaries who traveled to Houston seeking medical care. According to the lawsuit, Sheik Issa recruited him to work as his personal business manager.
As the Sheikh’s moods grew darker, he began a habit and custom of torturing his employees and anyone else with whom he disapproved,” the lawsuit claims. “As his degeneracy increased, Sheikh Issa began to have such torture sessions taped, so he could enjoy viewing them later.” The torture sessions became a wedge in the business and, when it became clear the relationship were falling apart, Sheik Issa allegedly had Nabulsi arrested on marijuana charges. He was ultimately acquitted of those charges but the lawsuit says Nabulsi was interrogated about the videotapes while being held for more than three months.
He was told daily that his wife would be raped, his children would be killed, that he would be killed,” Buzbee said. His original lawsuit sought more than $1 billion but the amended lawsuit filed Monday does not seek a specific amount.”
Bad Move starting this Pissed off King and it is going to be fatal for all involved.
Thank goodness he didn't slap him in the face, yell at him, or wake him up at all hours of the night or the Obamassiah would be upset!
This is much better treatment than dunking somebody’s hjead in water.
May your SUV runneth over...
Bill Clinton’s rapes are not evidence of a pattern of behavior either.
At least they didn’t put panties on the guy’s head!
Indeed yes! It should have been a Toyota Prius, for heaven's sake!!
his last name is “Poor”?
This is the punishment in Saudi Arabia for farting on someone’s sandwich.
Bitter irony, wouldn't you say?
Stop right there. That ain't no Texan, but merely a mohomedan infiltrator to my sacred homeland. He ain't one of my people, that's for sure.
“Bill Clinton’s rapes are not evidence of a pattern of behavior either”
They only averaged out to about 1 per decade. Surely a man who did SO much for “the people” (not to mention “the children”) deserves to be cut some slack...
That is true, but the enemy has infiltrated into your sacred homeland that I have had the pleasure of briefly visiting, some years ago.
Watch:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9184353144432289069
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