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Iraqi TV Claims Shoe Throwing Reporter Being 'Tortured' at US Run Prison
Current.com ^ | December 16, 2008

Posted on 12/15/2008 4:44:26 PM PST by lewisglad

Urgent, just reported: Al-Zaidi in U.S. run Camp Cropper prisonIraqi TV al-Sharqiya just reported on the news that AL-Zaidi is transferred to Camp Cropper prison [the Airport prison, managed by the American forces].

The TV Channel announced that Al-Zaidi is in a difficult condition, with broken ribs and signs of tortures on his thighs. Also he can not move his right arm.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assault; iraq; iraqimedia; journalist; shoe; torture
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To: lewisglad

Wow, there’s a lot of OTT visceral hatred directed at this man just for throwing a shoe at a politician. If somebody did this to Gordon Brown, my thoughts would be ‘obviously, the man needs to go to court for assault, spend a couple of weeks in jail and do some community service. Obviously, he should pay compensation to the victim. You can’t do this kind of thing in a civilised society and get off scott free’... But on the other hand I’d also be thinking ‘Good on him, that’ll teach the twot to have the gall to enter politics with the intention of telling everybody else what to do’.
Of course, I could also appreciate the ‘It was a silly, immature and pointless little stunt’ argument in place of the last part as well.....


81 posted on 12/15/2008 5:25:43 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: CE2949BB

Don’t be silly. This guy was taken into custody by Iraqi government security people. He is being treated according to their own customs.


82 posted on 12/15/2008 5:26:45 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: lewisglad

“Also he can not move his right arm.”

At least it’s still attached to his body.


83 posted on 12/15/2008 5:28:37 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Tamatoa
I would love to get my hands on him too...

What would you do?

Would you kill him?

84 posted on 12/15/2008 5:29:44 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: Callahan

Have you noticed the term, ARAB? NOT MUSLIM, ARAB?


85 posted on 12/15/2008 5:29:55 PM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

lol Arabs say the same thing about Persians.


86 posted on 12/15/2008 5:31:25 PM PST by forkinsocket
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To: CE2949BB
Here ya go
87 posted on 12/15/2008 5:35:04 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: lewisglad

If the SS had been doing their job, this guy would be dead and being tortured by his 73 Helen Thomas replicas, for all eternity.


88 posted on 12/15/2008 5:35:11 PM PST by doc1019
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To: driftdiver
Here ya go

WAR CRIME! :P

89 posted on 12/15/2008 5:36:28 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: lewisglad

I got a buddy at Camp Cropper right now. I can’t wait until he gets back to tell me the real story.


90 posted on 12/15/2008 5:36:28 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: lewisglad

I got a buddy at Camp Cropper right now. I can’t wait until he gets back to tell me the real story.


91 posted on 12/15/2008 5:38:13 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: CE2949BB

Who cares? I surely don’t.


92 posted on 12/15/2008 5:42:44 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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To: lewisglad

GOOD!! How DARE he throw anything at the leader of the free world!!


93 posted on 12/15/2008 5:42:51 PM PST by annelizly
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To: Callahan
Wonder why this “hero” never tossed a shoe at Saddam?

I read that he's a Saddamite, out of the country when the invasion occured. Fits since he works for an "independent" station out of Cairo. But he could be a Sadirist as Allegra postulated.

I want to know how and why such a person was allowed so close to our President. Those shoes could have just as easily been "shoe bombs". Or just coated with Anthrax, or lots of other nasty possibilties.

Remember it was a supposedly "independt camera crew, with an explosive camera, that killed the Anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance commander, Afghan commander Ahmed Shah Massood right before 911 on Sept. 09, 2001.

94 posted on 12/15/2008 5:49:56 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: lewisglad

All I can say is, Good!


95 posted on 12/15/2008 5:50:22 PM PST by jerry639 (Obama=false hope for delusional followers.)
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To: lewisglad

Yes, this must be a fact. Let’s examine the chain of evidence. . .

According to the internet blog on Al Gore’s “Current TV” independent phony media network, which cites www.roadstoiraq.com blog page (below). That website has links with HTML default template text in the navigation boxes. But that’s just what I heard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_TV

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/12/16/urgent-just-reported-al-zaidi-in-us-run-camp-cropper-prison/

Iraqi TV al-Sharqiya just reported on the news that AL-Zaidi is transferred to Camp Cropper prison [the Airport prison, managed by the American forces].

The TV Channel announced that Al-Zaidi is in a difficult condition, with broken ribs and signs of tortures on his thighs. Also he can not move his right arm.

P.S.

I am just telling you what I heard on TV.


96 posted on 12/15/2008 5:50:23 PM PST by SCPatriot77
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To: lewisglad
The article doesn't justify the headline. The Iraqi guards were on this piece of slime pretty good, right after he threw his second shoe. He probably looked like he'd been hit by a truck BEFORE he got to that prison.

The story allows for that result. The title, however, is a presstitute lie.

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97 posted on 12/15/2008 6:00:58 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Larest book: www.AmericasOwnersManual.com)
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To: lewisglad

The Muslim Arab world lives on fantasy. Always has.

The American invasion and regime change was, essentially, an attempt to force reality on what Fouad Ajami calls “the dream palace of the Arabs.” That’s why the Abu Ghraib stories were so damaging, and why the American-hating MSM jumped all over it, knowing the Abu Ghraib images would bring out the worst in the Arab world. And they continue to feed the fantasies that generate stories like this.


98 posted on 12/15/2008 6:03:31 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.."-Daniel Henninger)
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To: LiberConservative
Also he can not move his right arm.

I bet he got a torn rotator cuff from throwing the shoes wrong. Too bad he didn't learn to play American baseball rather than futbol where they don't need arms. We would have taught him to throw.

99 posted on 12/15/2008 6:18:56 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: null and void

That’s what I was thinking — right out of the playbook. THEY are always the victims. Bruises will heal, buddy. And he expected maybe a medal?


100 posted on 12/15/2008 6:24:14 PM PST by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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