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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Confession under torture: from the files of the Free Syrian Army
Notice how the answers change after the threats are issued. And notice that he was made to confess that Bashshar Al-Asad and Mahir Al-Asad personally gave them instructions to kill people. He was asked whether he slit the throats of women, and he said: no. But when the torturer yelled at him, he changed his answers. You call those criminals revolutionaries? It is an insult to revolutions everywhere to refer to those as revolutionaries. Those are the twins of the torturers of the Syrian regime. And Western academics sit on panels debating what kind of weapons those require.
PS I need someone to translate this for me.
PPS Somebody said on my wall on Facebook that this guy may not even be an Air Force intelligence guy, and that he is in fact a perfume vendor from Homs.
-Economist has reported on October 30th, 2003 that a Catholic priest "placed a relic of Mother Teresa" on the body of Terri Schiavo who has been in a coma in a Florida hospital.
Comic by Terry Furry, reproduced from "Heard the One About the Funny Leftist?" by Cris Thompson, East Bay Express
As'ad's Bio
As'ad AbuKhalil, born March 16, 1960. From Tyre, Lebanon, grew up in Beirut. Received his BA and MA from American University of Beirut in pol sc. Came to US in 1983 and received his PhD in comparative government from Georgetown University. Taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Colorado College, and Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Served as a Scholar-in-Residence at Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He served as free-lance Middle East consultant for NBC News and ABC News, an experience that only served to increase his disdain for maintream US media. He is now professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. His favorite food is fried eggplants.
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