Muslims lie.
We have a motive!!! He has a $350,000 lawsuit against the US Army. (You would think that Yahoo/AP reporters could go to Google and get the same information. It took me two minutes.)
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1522516,00.html
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'Tortured' Canadian sues US
06/05/2004 07:13 - (SA)
Toronto - With the White House Wednesday under heavy fire over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, a Canadian businessman is claiming he endured daily torture by American soldiers after being seized in Baghdad.
Hossam Shaltout, 57, an Egyptian-born Canadian who lives in Los Angeles, is demanding damages of $350 000, in a complaint filed with the US Army.
He says his five-week ordeal which ended when he was deported to Egypt, left him suffering from depression, flashbacks, and an obsessive desire for death.
Shaltout says he was arrested by US soldiers outside his hotel in Baghdad during a riot in April 2003, and taken to the Bucca detention facility in Umm Qasr, southern Iraq.
He had travelled to Iraq on behalf of his peace group "Rights and Freedom International" in a bid to convince Iraqi leaders to step down to avoid a war with the United States.
After he was taken to Bucca in an armoured personnel carrier, Shaltout claims he was subjected to a daily diet of interrogation and torture.
Right-hand man
"Mr Shaltout was accused of being both a speechwriter for Saddam Hussein as well as his 'right-hand man,'" said Shaltout's Portland, Oregon-based lawyer Thomas Nelson in the complaint lodged with the US Army last week.
"When Mr Shaltout refused to confess, he was beaten in a variety of ways - he was hit with open hands, fists, shoes, and gun butts.
"The most alarming form of torture was when the interrogators put gun muzzles at his head or body, which put Mr. Shaltout in great fear of imminent death."
Shaltout, who is in Saudi Arabia and could not be immediately contacted Wednesday claims that he was kneed in the groin and hit about the face while in leg irons and handcuffs after he launched a hunger strike.
He is claiming $350 000 in damages, claiming he now suffers depression, post traumatic stress disorder and other physical and mental ailments.
Shaltout is also claiming compensation for loss of property and the damage to his business while he was in detention.
That is what I was thinking. Saddam lies. This guy is lying, Saddam could have called Bush personally. Someone should make it into a movie though should be good for a couple of laughs.
Saddam's word was law. Problem was that he liked to talk.