West Bank - Son of executed female collaborator says he was tortured for confession

Associated Press | August 25, 2002

[holyscroller]

Savages!

[FormerLurker]

Asked why his group employed torture, he said: "This is the only way you can get confessions from such people who betray their people."

Under torture, a person can be made to admit to virtually anything and everything. There is a limit as to what ANY human being can stand.

The validity of any confession or information obtained under torture is in most respects worthless.

[packrat35]

Let me be the first to say it. Islam is a religion of peace
(/sarcasm)

[TheEngineer]

Pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for Amnesty International and the UN to criticize these barbarians.

[sheik yerbouty]

I guess Mum would have been better off under IDF instead of PA rule.

[The_Media_never_lie]

"I know that this woman had children but we had no choice. We left her son alive to take care of the children," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

What humanitarians these Palistinians.

[Alouette]

Sun Aug 25, 1:50 PM ET

Seventeen-year-old Bakir Khouli lifts his shirt Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002, in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, to show marks he said were made by electrical wires as he was tortured shortly before his mother was killed. Bakir's mother, Ikhlas Khouli, 35, was shot dead Saturday for being a suspected collaborator with Israel. Bakir said that Palestinian gunmen tortured him until he invented a story about his mother's involvement in a militant's death. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

[SJackson]

Sure, too much hash after afternoon incantations.

He hooked up the batteries, put the belt on backwards with loose wires. I'm sure it stung.

A shame it didn't go off. Maybe next time.

[aculeus]

Don't forget Mary Robinson, Mother Superior of Hypocrites.

[Alouette]

A shame it didn't go off. Maybe next time.

Would you turn in your own mother? Even under torture?

[SJackson]

No. Bad post.

Sometimes I fear I've lost my ability to empathize with the Palestinians, no matter how horrendious the circumstances their actions bring on themselves.

I agree, I shouldn't make fun of their pain.

[RnMomof7]

The religion of peace..

[esopman]

'Religion of Peace' bump. It will take much more than another 9/11 before our Republic wakes up and does what the WWII generation would have done. Annihilate these animals.

Unfortunately, this is largely an issue of recognizing certain spiritual truths. I shudder to think what will transpire before the scales fall from our eyes.

Blessings on Freepers Everywhere.

[RnMomof7]

'Religion of Peace' bump. It will take much more than another 9/11 before our Republic wakes up and does what the WWII generation would have done.

You have made a non PC statement with which I fully agree..

[Higgymonster]

You had a very good point about Amnesty International being quiet on this one. So, I wrote them to ask them why. I went to their web site and got the email of their Palestine Office, sent them an email asking them why, and it came back as "no such address".

[Catspaw]

They'll probably kill him too, just because he ratted out the Palies that tortured him and killed his mother.

[Robert_Paulson2]

We need to wipe them out.
every one of them.

This manifestation of hell cries for violent and persistant action to intervene... but what, who and when?

[TheEngineer]

Good Job, Higgymonster! It is a great feeling to watch these hippocrites squirm when they are confronted with their obvious bias and double-standards.

[DBtoo]

Cruelty seems to be highly ingrained in the Palestinian culture. That's why I am not too hopeful for Israel having any peace until the Palestinians are removed from there. Why don't the neighboring Arab countries take them in? But even if they were willing to do so, the Palis wouldn't go because they want to fight the Jews until they are all driven out of their land or until they are all killed. It's just a hopeless situation as long as the situation continues as it is. It's the pitt bulls being loose among a bunch of poodles. I don't think those people can change. So in my mind the Israelis are going to continue to suffer as long as there are Palestinians around who are obsessed with destoying the Jews.