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Ineresting article about torture

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Turbo Monkey
Aug 6, 2007
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I know there have been discussions in the past, but this one really hit me.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/75104

One film came from Tehran. The shah's secret police, the Savak, were notoriously savage. (My first instruction in this came in Amman, Jordan, in the early 1970s. A British consular official told me about an Iranian exile who had gone from Jordan into Iran to try to organize unions. Savak caught him, surgically amputated his arms and legs, and sent his living trunk back to his family in Amman as a warning. I looked for the man, but his family had fled with him from Jordan.
<edit> Yes I know I misspelled interesting, noticed after I hit submit
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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Denver
Can't be that many Iranians named Bob?

The mob used to do the exact opposite... cut off a body part and send it to the family.
 

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Turbo Monkey
Aug 6, 2007
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Can't be that many Iranians named Bob?

The mob used to do the exact opposite... cut off a body part and send it to the family.
The thing that got me was the fact that he was left alive, I've heard of quartering up a body and sending off the pieces....but they kept him alive to torture him for life
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
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The end of the article is a cop out. This isn't where 9/11 has brought us at all. This is the end result of a bunch of amoral war criminals running the government...and a bunch of little Eichmanns.
 

MikeD

Leader and Demogogue of the Ridemonkey Satinists
Oct 26, 2001
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Put him in a hole and call him Phil?

Or put him in the garden and call him Pete?
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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make some room: i think i hear kidwoo coming down the hall w/ some pie