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Conley
09-23-2011, 01:43 PM
According to the London-based human rights group, the 18-year-old's body had been decapitated, the arms cut off and the skin removed.

"If it is confirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the most disturbing cases of a death in detention we have seen so far," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15039783

Really, when you are dealing with savages like this how can you even pretend that diplomatic pressure is going to do anything?

Mister D
09-23-2011, 01:44 PM
The skin removed? :o WTF?

Conley
09-23-2011, 01:49 PM
The skin removed? :o WTF?


Yeah that is some serious Hannibal Lecter stuff right there.

Did you ever see Syriana? Good flick - this quote was about Saudi Arabia I think but it could go for the whole Middle East:

"But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest Gross National Product in the world, now you're tied with Albania. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, closely followed by dates which you're losing five cents a pound on... You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years..."

Mister D
09-23-2011, 01:51 PM
No, but that's a pretty hard hitting quote. 8)

Conley
09-23-2011, 02:03 PM
No, but that's a pretty hard hitting quote. 8)


The truth hurts. ;D