Category Archives: thuggery and intimidation

Crown wants taxi union boss jailed for ‘honour crime’

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Well, on the Multi Culti front, Canada has something to be proud of. It would seem that we are ahead of the curve in terms of ‘honour’ killings and other Muslim crime for the percentage of Islamic population Canada has. If I lived in Toronto, I would make my next car one built from asbestos.

From the Ottawa Citizen:

By Andrew Seymour, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 14, 2009 6:55 AM

OTTAWA — Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.

Yusef Al Mezel’s threat of an honour killing was designed to “control and dominate” his then-23-year-old daughter, Eman Al Mezel, by suggesting she had brought shame upon her family that would be met with violent consequences, assistant Crown attorney James Cavanagh argued during a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Al Mezel, who pleaded guilty to criminal harassment last September, was trying to deny his daughter “every basic freedom as to how she could live her life,” Cavanagh said, the result of an “underlying notion of patriarchal dominance” based on a “perverted and archaic belief in family honour.”

“When she wouldn’t bend to his will … he raised the spectre of violence in the name of honour to scare her into complying with his wishes,” said Cavanagh, who urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny to sentence the 44-year-old president of the Canadian Autoworkers Local 1688 to 18 to 24 months behind bars.

Al Mezel admitted he repeatedly called, wrote, followed and visited the residences of Eman Al Mezel in July 2007 in an attempt to get his daughter to return home after a violent incident where he pushed her into a flight of stairs and threatened to break her legs and kill her before smashing her computer. Continue Reading →

Crown wants man jailed for honour crime

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From the Ottawa Citizen

Crown wants taxi union boss jailed for ‘honour crime’

That’s ‘not my world,’ man insists, despite threats to daughter

By Andrew Seymour, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 14, 2009 6:55 AM

OTTAWA — Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.

Yusef Al Mezel’s threat of an honour killing was designed to “control and dominate” his then-23-year-old daughter, Eman Al Mezel, by suggesting she had brought shame upon her family that would be met with violent consequences, assistant Crown attorney James Cavanagh argued during a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Al Mezel, who pleaded guilty to criminal harassment last September, was trying to deny his daughter “every basic freedom as to how she could live her life,” Cavanagh said, the result of an “underlying notion of patriarchal dominance” based on a “perverted and archaic belief in family honour.” Continue Reading →

Taxi! Taxi!:cabbie drags man for defending girlfriend

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What’s up with cabbies? Seems that some ‘Asian’ !@#$%^&* taxi drivers seem to think  that female passengers should succumb to their demands of sexual favours in return for fare. A man who comes to her defense risks being assaulted.

From the Religion of Peace.

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Man dragged in street by lewd cabbie

August 13, 2009

A MAN was dragged along the street by a taxi after the driver deliberately trapped his hand in the window in Manchester city centre.

At about 2.30am on Sunday (9 August) a 29-year-old woman flagged down a black cab near to the Star and Garter on Fairfield Street following a night out.

During the journey, the driver made several suggestions that her fare could be waived for sexual favours.

The woman was shaken by the comments so sent a text message to her boyfriend to say that she had been propositioned by the driver and was upset.

She got out of the taxi at the junction of High Street and Copperas Street where her boyfriend was waiting and explained what had been said to her.

The woman went to the cash machine to get her fare and her boyfriend asked the man why he had made suggestive comments.

The 30-year-old victim put his hand on the taxi’s open window while he spoke to the driver, who wound up the window and drove off.

The driver sped up and the man was dragged along the floor for a short distance before managing to get his hand out.

He was taken to hospital and treated for cuts and grazes to his body and face and has since been allowed to go home.

The taxi driver is described as an Asian man, aged in his late 30s, he was clean-shaven with good skin and had short black hair, which was receding slightly. Although he was sat down, he appeared to be short, of medium build and was wearing a pale top.

Detective Constable Emma Cyprien, from Grey Mare Lane CID, said: “The woman was frightened by the driver’s behaviour – if you remember seeing anything when you were out in town on Saturday night that might be relevant, please contact me.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Grey Mare Lane CID on 0161 856 1926 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Hugo Chavez, Israel, and Iran.

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Some of my Venezuelan contacts have been telling me things for years now, which are horrifying about Chavez and his ambitions. Today has been an interesting news day in that some of what I have been told for the past 3 years or more has been fully confirmed as you will see in the stories below.

I will take the liberty of stating some of the things I have also been told which have not been confirmed. Take this anyway you like. It is technically merely an insubstantial rumor for the moment.

Chavez is said to be sending out Islamic missionaries of sorts to the more remote rain forest areas, and arming and training tribesman of formerly untouched peoples by civilization. Something every leader of Venezuela since its creation has managed to avoid. He is taking people with no education as we know it, with no history of technology etc, and exposing them to Islam, automatic weapons and making them part of an ideologically based militia. The near future will likely determine the veracity of these claims and rumors.

Now on to a story which Stratfor sent out today from ynet news:

Hezbollah suspected of setting up camp in Venezuela

Senior Israeli political official: Nasrallah established major terrorist base in Venezuela under Chavez sponsorship. Hezbollah members collect intelligence from continent, including Brazil, Argentina, and Peru with objective of carrying out a low-profile revenge attack for assassination of Imad Mughniyeh

Shimon Shiffer

Published: 08.13.09, 13:40 / Israel News

It has recently been made clear that Israel‘s public warnings on the issue stem from intelligence assessments that Hezbollah is investing significant efforts to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli targets and Jewish institutions in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru in a bid to avenge the death of the organization’s late leader Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus more than a year ago.

According to the Israeli source, Hezbollah operatives in South America are collecting intelligence to this end. The Israeli intelligence community estimates that Hezbollah will try as much as possible not to leave identifying footprints that could associate the organization with the attack in the wake of such a strike in a bid to avoid Israel’s heavy hand. In the same vein, it is estimated that the organization will not take public responsibility for a terrorist attack if it were to carry one out successfully.

This is also the reason the organization is purportedly looking to carry out an attack far away from Israel.

Egypt has recently exposed cluster of secret Hezbollah-related terrorist cells that planned on assassinated Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen. Another cell that planned on targeting Israeli tourists was discovered in Jordan. On this backdrop, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned that should Hezbollah attack Israeli targets anywhere around the globe, harsh retaliation will ensue.

During his visit to South America a few weeks ago, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman handed over information to his Latin counterparts on Hezbollah’s activities in the countries he visited. According to the Israeli source, the main objective is to signal to Hezbollah that Israel is aware of the organization’s subversive activities in South America and is keeping close watch.

“We sought to deter them and to say to them that the Israeli response will be difficult to bear should they try to take action against Israelis anywhere,” warned the source.

Western media outlets have reported in recent months about a warming relationship between Iran and Venezuela, under the leadership of anti-American Hugo Chavez. It seems that Hezbollah is taking advantage of the growing friendship in order to establish itself in Latin America.

The US Treasury Department indicted two Venezuelan citizens last year for supporting Hezbollah, and froze their assets in the United States. One of them, a diplomat of Lebanese Shiite ancestry, used his position to transfer funds to Hezbollah and to help members of the organization move between Venezuela and Iran for training. The other is a travel agent from the capital city, Caracas, who aided Hezbollah members in planning attacks.

Western counter-terrorism experts warn that Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have established special units to kidnap Jewish businessmen from Latin America and to bring them to Lebanon.

Venezuela has become Hezbollah‘s major terrorist outpost in South America. The Venezuelan regime reportedly provides aid for the terrorist organization that has taken root in its territory, according to a senior Israeli official.

Threats have been volleyed back and forth between Hezbollah and Israel recently. Senior Israeli officials warned that if the organization makes an attempt to attack Israeli targets, the response will be unforgiving. Hezbollah responded in kind with a threat of its own that if Israel were to attack Lebanon, the Jewish State will pay a heavy price.

Terrorism

Report: Lieberman accuses Chavez of ties to ‘radical’ Islamists / AFP
Venezuelan president cooperating with ‘radical branches’ of Islam, FM reportedly says
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Now, a video from Fausta’s blog, Fausta, was kind enough to translate this video, which I subtitled. I only did as much as there was in English. For anyone wishing to see the whole program/speech by Hugo, please visit the above link and watch it there. Chavez disguises his contept for Israel and all things related less and less well.

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women, August 12, 2009

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Bulletin of the Oppression of Women, August 12, 2009

Facts without comments – we collect the dots, you connect them
Please distribute this bulletin and send us events that you find.

Mideast
July 26, 2009
Gaza Strip
A Gaza judge tells female lawyers to wear Muslim headscarves when they appear in court.

July 29, 2009
Israel
A father bludgeons his daughter with an iron chain because she owned a cell phone. The victim was a divorced mother of two.

July 30, 2009
Egypt
Egyptian Muslims abduct two Christian girls for conversion.

July 31, 2009
Gaza Strip
Hamas organizes a mass wedding for 450 couples. Please note the ages of the “brides”; all of them shown in the video are young children.

Europe
July 29, 2009
Spain
A Moroccan attempts an Honor Killing by stabbing his daughter 20 times.

July 31, 2009
UK
A girl, 15, is forced to marry illegal immigrant who then raped her and sexually assaulted her little sister.

August 5, 2009
Denmark
Honor is used to silence sexually abused Muslim girls. (translated from Danish) (Original article in Danish)

Asia
July 27, 2009
Pakistan
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO of an interview with a Pakistani woman who was blinded and hideously disfigured by having hydrochloric acid thrown in her face for refusing to marry her deceased husband’s brother.

July 29, 2009
Bangladesh
A newly married Hindu woman is raped and killed by Muslim thugs. (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO)

July 29, 2009
Pakistan
A Pakistani man rapes, then inserts acid in the genitals of his victim.

July 29, 2009
India
A 17-year-old girl was chained by her stepfather to a TV stand for more than a week as her mother was fighting sickness.

August 1, 2009
Pakistan
A man gunned down his sister and her two daughters for one of them traveling with someone not a member of their family.

North America
July 31, 2009
U.S.
An Ohio 16 year old convert to Christianity is still missing after two weeks.

August 1, 2009
Canada
Update on the Honor killings by an Afghani immigrant family.

August 7, 2009
U.S.
A Long Island, NY man shoots his wife, daughter and mother-in-law in suspected Honor killing.

Africa
July 8, 2009
Mali
Women demand a law against female genital mutiliation.

August 3, 2009
Sudan
In a continuing story, police arrested Hussein, a female Sudanese journalist and 12 other women wearing trousers at a Khartoum restaurant on July 3. Two days later 10 of the women accepted a punishment of 10 lashes, but Hussein appealed in a bid to eliminate such rough justice. Women protested against the delaying of Hussein’s trial, and, then when the trial was reconvened, Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside the courtroom.

Too sexy for the Saudis

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Saudi Arabia’s clerics describe satellite groups bringing sexy broadcasts to Riyadh as ” axes that destroy Islam and Muslims”; “Fear God!” they decry. With rock concerts scrapped, a film festival canceled and a cinema banned, entertainment starved Saudis who at 60% are under the age of 30, cannot promise that they will not resort to “other things that you may not like”. The youngest of the Saudi geriatric leadership is 75.

From the National Post

Man’s racy testimony angers Saudi authorities

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mazen Abdul Jawad bragged about his sexual activities on a Lebanese-based TV station. The move got him arrested in the theocratic country. YouTube Mazen Abdul Jawad bragged about his sexual activities on a Lebanese-based TV station. The move got him arrested in the theocratic country.

RIYADH — The scandal over a man boasting about his sex life on a popular satellite television show has sparked outbursts against the huge popularity of often-racy offshore broadcasts in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia. Continue Reading →

Angry ‘youth’ trash French suburb:

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Is this even news anymore? From the BBC

Paris suburb youths fight police

French riot police near a burning car in Bagnolet, Paris, 11 August 2009
It was the second night of clashes in the eastern Paris suburb

Angry youths have clashed with riot police in the eastern Paris suburb of Bagnolet after a young motorcyclist died fleeing police on Sunday.

Police said the 18-year-old died after crashing into a metal barrier, but locals said he was hit by a police car.

Demonstrators hurled stones at police and torched several vehicles.

The violence came despite an appeal for calm by French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux, who ordered an internal police investigation into the death.

The administrative centre of the region, just east of Paris, said the situation was under control despite the scattered arson attacks.

Arrests had been made, it said, without specifying how many.

On Sunday night, dozens of youths hurled petrol bombs at police and torched dozens of cars in outrage at the young pizza delivery man’s death.

If You Convert You Die

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By: Nonie Darwish
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, August 03, 2009 (H/T Alex)

Very few people in the West know what is going on inside the Muslim world and what it portends for them. The fact is that through the dominant media, such as CNN, Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world. The result is that Americans are in the dark attempting to formulate their strategy of how to defend themselves against the threat of terror, domestic jihad and Sharia. While Americans get ridiculed for being “Islamophobes,” the Muslim world itself is undergoing a huge and painful awakening.

For instance, a prominent Egyptian lawyer and women’s rights activist, Nagla Al Imam, recently announced her conversion to Christianity in Cairo, Egypt. The announcement brought shock waves in and beyond Egypt. This is perhaps the first case ever of its kind, where a Muslim woman, who is also a Sharia expert, has openly challenged Islamic apostasy laws from within the Muslim world.

Ms. Al Imam’s incredible courage was on display in an internet chat room, where she announced that she is not afraid, will stand up for the human rights of apostates and refuses to leave her homeland, Egypt. This was immediately followed by attacks and calls (‘fatwas’) for death of the 36 year-old graduate of Al Azhar Islamic University.

Egyptian media not only reported the threat but also participated in the attacks. Ms. Al Imam was literally entrapped by a TV station ‘Al Mihwar’ with the pretext of inviting her for an interview. Upon arrival to the TV studio she was told the show she was to appear on was cancelled. She was then taken forcibly to a room where she was held against her will for hours inside the studio. She was assaulted, threatened and insulted by several people. She was able to escape, and went to her internet chat room telling the world what happened and said she will demand protection from the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Continue Reading →

Somali Islamists strike gold & silver

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An unexpected find of the precious metals is being harvested in Somalia. The proceeds from this “gift of Allah” will most likely go to financing the jihad against the government of Somalia. Allah u Akbar says their leader.

SomaliFightersMOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is forcibly removing gold and silver teeth from residents in southern Somalia because it says they contravene strict religious law, locals from a coastal town said on Monday.

 Residents in Marka say al Shabaab has been rounding up anyone seen with a silver or gold tooth and taking them to a masked man who then rips them out using basic tools.

 “I never thought al Shabaab would see my denture as a sin. They took me to their station and removed my silver tooth,” resident Bashir told Reuters.

 “I met several men and women whose dentures were being pulled out by a masked man they called a doctor. The doctor used a pincer or his gloved hand depending on the strength of the tooth,” Bashir said.

 “As you smile your silver tooth accuses you. I was at a counter with my friend when three armed al Shabaab ordered me to follow them,” he added. “I am afraid they want to make money from taking all this precious metal.”

 Al Shabaab officials declined to comment.

 The Islamist group says the gold and silver teeth are used for fashion and beauty, which is against strict interpretations of Islam, residents told Reuters.

 The crude dental work has fueled fears of health risks.

 “Pulling or replacing teeth may lead to loss of blood and neurological damage. The tooth may break and the remaining piece may cause sepsis,” Mohamed Mohamud, dean of faculty of medicine at Mogadishu’s Benadir University, told Reuters.

 “Worse, careless treatment may spread HIV,” he added.

 Al Shabaab, which means “Youth” in Arabic, is an al Qaeda-inspired militant group that has taken control of large swathes of south and central Somalia.

 The group’s hardline interpretation of Islamic law has shocked many Somalis, who are traditionally moderate Muslims. Some residents, however, give the insurgents credit for restoring order to the regions under their control.

 In June, al Shabaab officials in one of the group’s Mogadishu strongholds ordered four teenagers to each have a hand and a foot cut off as punishments for robbery.

Double standard in England?

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Seems to me I have seen British police arrest and even beat white indigenous British people for a lot less than this. Count the number of attacks on cops the ‘Asian’ does. No wonder the BNP are getting votes. Liberal democracy must mean all people are equal before the law and no group has special or preferential treatment. The inevitable consequence of such treatment, will be race wars, and the various security aspects of the state being uncertain what side they are on.

This video from the 080809 Burmingham riots.

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England out of Badminton Championship after Lashkar-e-Taiba terror threat

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From the Guardian

Terror threat forces English out of World Badminton Championships

• England team withdrawn due to ‘specific threat’
• ‘We are not prepared to risk the safety of our players’

Nathan RobertsonThe Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson is a member of the England badminton team which has withdrawn from the world championships. Photograph: Paul McFegan/Sportphoto Ltd

England have withdrawn from the World Badminton Championships in the Indian city of Hyderabad because of “a specific terrorist threat” against the championships.

The eight-strong squad, which includes the Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson, have pulled out of the tournament, which starts tomorrow, following reports of a threat by the Muslim group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The chief executive of Badminton England, Adrian Christy, said: “This was an incredibly tough decision and one we didn’t take lightly. After the Olympic Games, this is the most prestigious championships in the world but we were not prepared to risk the safety of our players, coaches and staff in what we felt could have been a very volatile environment.

“We are extremely grateful for the speed in which the BWF [Badminton World Federation] and the organising committee reacted to the concerns following the threat. We have carefully considered the comments made by the local police authorities and we know that they have the best interest of all competitors in mind.

“We have also listened to the advice from the Foreign Office and British High Commission. We have been in constant dialogue with them over the past couple of days. The conclusion is that safety is of paramount importance and therefore, with great regret, the team will be returning home immediately.”

The performance director, Ian Moss, said: “Our athletes were extremely well prepared for these championships but, at the end of the day, personal safety must take priority over performance. This was a unanimous squad decision and is not reflective of the efforts made by the organising committee to create the safest environment possible for all athletes.”

Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is Urdu for Soldiers of the Pure, is a Pakistan-based organisation fighting against Indian control in Kashmir. It has been blamed for a number of terrorist incidents in India including the October 2005 bomb attacks in Delhi, which killed more than 60 people, and is alleged to have played a part in the armed raid on the Indian parliament in December 2001. Most recently it was linked with the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, which killed at least 188 people.

Campus group advertising Israeli Apartheid Week lodge HRC complaint against university

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From the Ottawa Citizen.

Students take Carleton to rights tribunal

Group says school trampled its freedom of expression

By Jennifer Green, with files from Katie Daubs, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 7, 2009

Carleton University was only trying to keep campus political discourse civil. Now, it looks as if it will face Ontario’s human rights tribunal.

In March, a campus group advertised Israeli Apartheid Week with vivid signs of an Israeli fighter jet targeting a Palestinian toddler. Carleton told the group, Students Against Israeli Apartheid, to come up with something less pointed.

It complied, but complained to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario that the school trampled its freedom of expression. A mediation will likely be held in late September or early October, and, if the parties cannot agree, the complaint will proceed to a hearing, said Yavar Hameed, a lawyer representing the Carleton students.

Hameed said criticism of Israel was a sensitive issue on university campuses, and he didn’t know if this case would be resolved during the mediation stage. “The nature of this complaint focuses on the advocacy of Palestinian human rights,” he said. “We’re hopeful the human rights tribunal will take that issue seriously so Palestinian students and their allies will not feel chilled or marginalized when they try to speak about their basic rights.”

In an e-mail, Carleton spokesman Jason MacDonald said the students’ claims were “false and completely unfounded. The issue is now being addressed by the human rights tribunal and will provide us a with formal opportunity to respond point by point to these false claims once and for all. In the meantime we’re not going to do anything to undermine that process.”

Ben Saifer, a member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid, said the group would not back down. “The days of administrative intimidation and sophism are counted at Carleton University, and the tides are turning in North America against the supporters of the illegal Israeli occupation and apartheid regime.”

On its website, the group said: “In its fifth year, Toronto’s Israeli Apartheid Week has seen an alarming increase in harassment, intimidation and physical violence against its organizers and guests. While people who seem to be affiliated with the Jewish Defense League are the primary organizers of the attacks, unfortunately, the student groups Hasbara and Hillel have also joined in, using cameras, physical proximity, and threatening language to intimidate activists, especially women students, calling them ‘terrorists’ and repeating the accusations of ‘incitement’ and ‘hate speech.’ When these incidents of harassment and intimidation are reported to campus police, the police have taken no action.”

The university is also in hot water over its decision in late July to remove sessional lecturer Hassan Diab from a teaching post. A Lebanese-born Canadian citizen, Diab is accused of killing four people in the bombing of a Paris synagogue. Senior administrators at Carleton had approved his appointment, but the Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith said it was “deeply disturbed by the news that Hassan Diab, the alleged bomber of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris in 1980, will be teaching an upcoming sociology course at Carleton University. That terrorist attack, blamed on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations, resulted in the murders of four Jews, with scores more injured.”

The university fired the teacher, but a few days later, sociology and anthropology professors called for Diab’s reinstatement.

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Terrorists kidnap, torture boy to bully Iraqi policeman

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Khidir and Abdul QaderFALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) — Like many young boys, Khidir loves playing with toy cars and wants to be a policeman like his father when he grows up. But it was his father’s very job that caused the tiny child to suffer the unimaginable.

Khidir was just 6 years old when he was savagely ripped away from his family, kidnapped by al Qaeda operatives in Iraq.

“They beat me with a shovel, they pulled my teeth out with pliers, they would go like this and pull it,” said Khidir, now 8, demonstrating with his hands. “And they would make me work on the farm gathering carrots.”

What followed was even more horrific, an ordeal that would last for two years in captivity. Khidir and his father spoke to CNN recently, more than half a year after his rescue by Iraqi police.

“This is where they hammered a nail into my leg and then they pulled it out,” he says, lifting up his pant leg to show a tiny wound.

He says his captors also pulled out each of his tiny fingernails, broke both his arms, and beat him repeatedly on the side of the head with a shovel. He still suffers chronic headaches. He remembers them laughing as they inflicted the pain.

“I would think about my mommy and daddy,” he replies, when asked how he managed to get through the agony.

His father, Abdul Qader, struggles for words. “When he tells me about how they would torture him, I can’t tolerate it. I start crying,” he says. “What hurts me the most is when they hammered a nail into his leg.”

The father, a police officer, was sleeping at the police station in Falluja when his son was kidnapped. It was too dangerous to go home regularly. Although Falluja was no longer controlled by insurgents, assassinations against police were common.

“I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion … and then I heard my name on the radio. I ran outside and they came to me saying your house was blown up,” he says.

“When the police patrol came back, they all started kissing and comforting me,” he continues. “I was asking, ‘What’s going on? Where is my family?’ They told me that they took my son. This was a disaster. I went mad that day, I wasn’t normal, I was hysterical.”

Khidir’s grandmother was at home with the family at the time.

“The kidnappers climbed the fence and kicked in the door,” she says.”They were screaming for Abdul Qader. I told them he’s not here. They called me a liar and said we want his son. His son was hiding behind me, clutching my clothes. I said this is not his son. They hit me on the back with a rifle and ripped him out of my arms.”

The last thing she remembers were his screams of “Granny, Granny!” Continue Reading →