Comments on: Military Contractor Employee Alleges Torture by Obama Administration http://washingtonindependent.com/54736/military-contractor-employee-alleges-torture-by-obama-administration National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bank Jobs Dubai http://washingtonindependent.com/54736/military-contractor-employee-alleges-torture-by-obama-administration/comment-page-1#comment-135979 Bank Jobs Dubai Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:17:12 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=54736#comment-135979 I don't really know whom to believe but if Azar's statement was true then it was a crime against human rights, I feel pity for him.. I don't really know whom to believe but if Azar's statement was true then it was a crime against human rights, I feel pity for him..

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]]> By: Render Unto Caesar The Things Which Are Caesar’s « Around The Sphere http://washingtonindependent.com/54736/military-contractor-employee-alleges-torture-by-obama-administration/comment-page-1#comment-67654 Render Unto Caesar The Things Which Are Caesar’s « Around The Sphere Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:58:03 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=54736#comment-67654 [...] Daphne Eviatar at the Washington Independent: Azar claims he was threatened and coerced into signing a confession in ways that amounted to torture. He says he was hooded, strip-searched, photographed naked, exposed to extreme cold and sleep-deprived. He also alleges that while he was driven to the U.S. prison at the Bagram air base, a federal agent “pulled a photograph of Azar’s wife and four children from his wallet” and said he’d better confess to bribing a contract officer if he ever wanted to see them again. [...] [...] Daphne Eviatar at the Washington Independent: Azar claims he was threatened and coerced into signing a confession in ways that amounted to torture. He says he was hooded, strip-searched, photographed naked, exposed to extreme cold and sleep-deprived. He also alleges that while he was driven to the U.S. prison at the Bagram air base, a federal agent “pulled a photograph of Azar’s wife and four children from his wallet” and said he’d better confess to bribing a contract officer if he ever wanted to see them again. [...]

]]> By: strangely_enough http://washingtonindependent.com/54736/military-contractor-employee-alleges-torture-by-obama-administration/comment-page-1#comment-63898 strangely_enough Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:47:53 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=54736#comment-63898 The M.O. sounds so familiar. From Horton's Huffpo piece:<br>"According to court papers, on April 7, 2009, Azar and a Lebanese-American colleague, Dinorah Cobos, were seized by "at least eight" heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe."<br><br>Ummm... I don't recall an "antitrust probe" mentioned in the news previously that required the suspects be "hooded, strip-searched, photographed naked, exposed to extreme cold and sleep-deprived." WTF? The M.O. sounds so familiar. From Horton's Huffpo piece:
“According to court papers, on April 7, 2009, Azar and a Lebanese-American colleague, Dinorah Cobos, were seized by “at least eight” heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe.”

Ummm… I don't recall an “antitrust probe” mentioned in the news previously that required the suspects be “hooded, strip-searched, photographed naked, exposed to extreme cold and sleep-deprived.” WTF?

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