Shoe-Throwing Reporter Says He Was Tortured In Jail

[deminks]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112841010&ft=1&f=1004

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush was released Tuesday after nine months in prison, and he said Iraqi security forces tortured him with beatings, whippings and electric shocks after his arrest.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, whose stunning act of protest last December made him a hero around the Arab and Muslim worlds, said he now feared for his life and believed that U.S. intelligence agents would chase after him.

"These fearful services, the U.S. intelligence services and its affiliated services, will spare no efforts to track me as an insurgent revolutionary ... in a bid to kill me," he told a news conference at the TV station where he works.

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The reporter said Tuesday that he was abused immediately after his arrest and the following day. He said he was beaten with iron bars, whipped with cords and was electrocuted in the backyard of the building in the Green Zone where the news conference was held.

"In the morning, I was left in the cold weather after they splashed me with water," he said.

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[ixion]

1. And it was probably video taped for Chimpy

so he could get his torture-porn fix.

[Barack_America]

2. "Enhanced interrogation techniques"

They learned them from the best!

[crim son]

3. So proud to think about how we've brought freedom and democracy

to Iraq.