It's all clear now... Dubai Sheik assaults man over spurned gay advances

[Ian David]

Yes, the sheik that Bush wanted to turn our ports over to...

is gay.

This explains so, so much about Bush's TRUE motivations, doesn't it?

Do you think Jeff Gannon is jealous?

U.S. Businessman Beaten By 'Gay Sheik'
by The Associated Press

April 8, 2006 - 4:00 pm ET

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Orsi said he had no idea who Sheik Fallah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was before they met on the evening of Aug. 19, 2003. In fact, he didn't learn his identity, he said, until he stumbled bloodied and bruised to the hotel reception desk and pleaded with staff to call the police.

Orsi, a son of Italian immigrants who grew up in suburban Rochester, said he was sipping fruit juice while chatting in English and Italian with a Saudi friend near the bar at the posh La Reserve hotel when a passer-by dressed in casual shirt and jeans asked where he was from.

The stranger offered him something to drink and Orsi declined, saying he didn't drink alcohol, yet the man soon sent over a bottle of Dom Perignon. Orsi said he politely waved his thanks but left the champagne unopened on the table because he was worried the offer was a ploy to force a confrontation.

A quarter-hour later, Orsi alleged, the man suddenly came up behind him, jostled his glasses, sat in his lap and tried to kiss and fondle him. When Orsi protested, he maintained the man became violently angry, threw him to the floor, punched and stomped him, smashed his glasses underfoot, then removed his belt and whipped him with the metal buckle.

All the time, Orsi said his attacker was yelling abuse, saying at one point that "no stupid American or Italian is going to tell me what to do!"

After hotel staff and others intervened, taking him into a side room, Orsi said he was getting first aid for a deep cut over his left eye and welts on his arms and back when the man appeared again and flailed at him with his belt, then did the same a third time after Orsi retreated to the reception desk.

By this time, with private bodyguards appearing, Orsi suspected he had run into "maybe some personality." He was told the man was a son of Emirates ruler Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Sheik Fallah's elder brother, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was appointed president when their father died in November 2004.

More:
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/04/040806sheik.htm

[meegbear]

1. Wow! Who woulda thunk?

Now the reich-wingers have a reason to be against the port deal. Can't have a homosexual of the worst kind run these things.

[formercia]

3. You have to be human to be a homosexual

he's into power.

[Tsiyu]

2. Poor guy

The Sheik is a psychopath. No doubt best buddies with the ** clan.

[Ian David]

4. All Your Base Are Belong To Us

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

[Lars39]

5. I still think junior spent a few teenage summers with the Saudi royals.

It would explain quite a lot about him.

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