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Hostage reveals horrific torture details
AFP ^ | March 12, 2010

Posted on 03/11/2010 8:41:44 PM PST by george76

A UK man held hostage in Iraq for more than two-and-a-half years has revealed harrowing details of the torture meted out to him by his captors.

In media interviews two months after his release, Peter Moore told how he was subject to mock executions and hung from a door by his arms as a punishment.

The computer expert was released unharmed in December after 31 months in captivity during which all four of his bodyguards - abducted with him - are thought to have been killed.

Moore, 36, told The Times newspaper how guards put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, at the same time firing a live round from another weapon.

"I remember thinking: I'm dead. It's not that bad. It's not that painful. And then, reality check, hold on I'm handcuffed and still blindfolded. I can hear people laughing,"

The bodies of three of the guards were handed to British officials last year and Moore was freed after several hundred insurgents from the group, including the leader, were released from US custody.

The fourth guard, 34-year-old Alan McMenemy, is also thought to have been killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2009; 2010; bodyguards; hostage; iraq; moore; petermoore; prisonerswap; torture; trade; uk
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1 posted on 03/11/2010 8:41:44 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

was released unharmed

And so the point of the article is what?


2 posted on 03/11/2010 8:44:00 PM PST by Jolla
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To: george76
The computer expert was released unharmed in December after 31 months in captivity...

Unharmed????

3 posted on 03/11/2010 8:46:02 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Jolla

A Liberal writer trying to make the terrorists look better ?


4 posted on 03/11/2010 8:46:29 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; SunkenCiv
I didn't know we were making these kinds of deals with the terrorists:

Moore was freed after several hundred insurgents from the group, including the leader, were released from US custody.

5 posted on 03/11/2010 8:46:29 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: george76
"In an interview broadcast on Channel 4 News television Thursday, Moore told how he was left "screaming in pain" during a torture session which ended with him hanging from a door by a pair of handcuffs."

Well, at least the Muslim torturers didn't put some woman's panties over his head and laugh at him. Man that would really be inhumane.

6 posted on 03/11/2010 8:50:02 PM PST by StormEye
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To: george76

Compare to waterboarding.


7 posted on 03/11/2010 8:50:44 PM PST by Bhoy
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To: ValerieTexas

yes.

Not good


8 posted on 03/11/2010 8:52:24 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Bhoy

Or a fat lip


9 posted on 03/11/2010 8:52:44 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
The computer expert was released unharmed ....

Huh ?

They then "made me stand on the chair with my back to the door put my arms over the top, one of the guards pulled down on the handcuffs, pulled the chair away, just left me hanging there," added Moore.

"They wouldn't stop, they told me to be quiet... I was screaming in pain," he said.

10 posted on 03/11/2010 8:54:07 PM PST by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: ValerieTexas

is this real?


11 posted on 03/11/2010 8:58:01 PM PST by dalebert
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"The bodies of three of the guards were handed to British officials last year and Moore was freed after several hundred insurgents from the group, including the leader, were released from US custody."

Did nobody get this??? Several hundred INSURGENTS for Moore??? I thought we weren't "negotiating" with terrorists.

12 posted on 03/11/2010 9:39:18 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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Has nobody noticed that 3 and possibly 4 of his BGs were killed?
This guy ain't no friggin hero. His escorts paid with their lives and the story is about him?
Sorry, I got nothin on this one.
13 posted on 03/11/2010 9:44:42 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Nachum

Read this.


14 posted on 03/11/2010 9:48:25 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: jackibutterfly

They’ve been releasing hundreds of prisoners anyhow. I doubt they released several hundred on-demand for Moore.


15 posted on 03/11/2010 9:49:07 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Democrats and Pelosi. The party of thieves, liars and tax cheats)
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To: Cindy

Read this.


16 posted on 03/11/2010 9:49:15 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

The Aussies don’t mince words.


17 posted on 03/11/2010 9:50:15 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar

OPINION:

Yes, the global jihad continues and the release of jihadis continues and the torture of innocents by jihadis continue...and I’m sure “moderate” muslims must be absolutely shocked and appalled and attempting to rectify this situation...silence — yep, silence.

Thanks for the ping Jet Jaguar.


18 posted on 03/11/2010 9:56:33 PM PST by Cindy
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SNIPPET from post no. 1:


"The bodies of three of the guards were handed to British officials last year and Moore was freed after several hundred insurgents from the group, including the leader, were released from US custody."

19 posted on 03/11/2010 10:16:12 PM PST by Cindy
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To: dalebert

In another article I read that Moore had been working for an American company at the time of his capture. I don’t know the nationality of his 4 bodyguards.


20 posted on 03/11/2010 11:26:40 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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