Arab Spring… Libyan Militia Tortures Former Ambassador to Death
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 4, 2012, 12:22 AM
Mr Omar Brebesh was detained on 19 January after being called in for questioning by a militia in Tripoli. (BBC)
Libya’s former ambassador to France died from injuries he suffered after his arrest this week. The preliminary autopsy found that Omar Brebesh suffered broken ribs, welts and his toenails were removed.
AFP reported, via Jawa Report:
Libya’s ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, has died in the custody of a militia from possible torture, less than 24 hours after he was detained by the armed group, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
HRW said a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan detained Brebesh on January 19 and that a preliminary autopsy found the cause of death included “multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs.”
“Photos of Brebesh’s body, seen by Human Rights Watch, show welts, cuts and the apparent removal of toenails, indicating that he was tortured prior to death,” the rights watchdog said in a statement.
It said a report by the judicial police in Tripoli also found that Brebesh had died from torture and that an unnamed suspect had confessed to killing him.
Brebesh, 62, served in the Libyan embassy to France from 2004 to 2008, first as cultural attache and then as acting ambassador for the last nine months of his term, the rights group said.
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davidt commented:
Islamist Spring.
tommy mc donnell commented:
do you think all those people that were protesting torture during the bush administration will be protesting this.
Molon Labe commented:
Are we supposed to weep for this man?
JenBee commented:
Animals. And where is the UN? Oh right, they’re too busy condemning Israel for building settlements on its own land to bother with silly things like islamic torture groups.
bobdog commented:
Cynical as it sounds, I have to say that as I read this, I thought, “Well, at least he wasn’t subjected to the horrors of waterboarding.”
Compare this story to all the hysterical shrieking we had to suffer from the media when the waterboarding stories came out during the Bush years. As if there is any moral equivalence at all. Mercifully, we don’t do that any more, right?
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Thanks, Barack!
You committed our troops to supporting these barbarians!
Oh, and without congressional approval, too!
Now, Libs: about Bush’s so-called “illegal wars”, which HAD congressional approval…
Oh but the Messiah can ignore all law, to support the Ummah, right?
Never mind that oath he took in January of 2009… had something to do with the Constitution of the United States, IIRC.
Just “doin’ his thug thizzle.” As was said. And still is.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#6, bobdog
No, sadly. Now Obama and the sitzpinklers who hate the U.S. military he calls a cabinet? They just outsource the torture. Much easier on the wispy, gossamer shreds of consciences the liberals have.
They’re quite squeamish when it comes to “torturing” fellow worshippers of Baal and Molech.
If it were conservatives and “teabaggers” on the other hand?
They’d be lining up with money in hand to personally flay conservative flesh from teabagger bone, around the block.
Haters gotta hate. Own this, “progressives”. You Mao-loving pieces of dogs*(t.
rebellious kafir commented:
whew good, at least they didnt waterboard him…
AuntieMadder commented:
OT: Via the comments to a blog post at WTPOTUS:
“Two elections supervisors are taking action after an NBC2 investigation uncovers flawed record keeping and human error allowing people who are not citizens of the United States to vote.
No one knows how widespread this problem is, because county election supervisors have no way to track non-citizens who live here.
So NBC2 did something election officials never thought to do, and found them on our own.
“I vote every year,” Hinako Dennett told NBC2.
The Cape Coral resident is not a US citizen, yet she’s registered to vote.
NBC2 found Dennett after reviewing her jury excusal form. She told the Clerk of Court she couldn’t serve as a juror because she wasn’t a U.S. citizen.
We found her name, and nearly a hundred others like her, in the database of Florida registered voters.”
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16662854/2012/02/02/nbc2-investigates-voter-fraud
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/what-do-kenyan-ministers-know-that-americans-dont-know-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comments
tommy mc donnell commented:
was supporting the people that did another example of hillary’s smart diplomacy.
squeaky commented:
irrelevant to libya [or is it] while this is from 2003 and finding articles is difficult….i’ve never forgotten it. it was during the run up to the invasion of iraq and involved the U.N. and a man who desparately pleaded to be save. speaking of torture…….
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/829283/posts
Tim McGuire commented:
“Religion of Peace”.
bigL commented:
But what did he do as a crime?
No Man commented:
More Obama/Clinton Smart Diplomacy!
We have the smartest woman on earth running the State Dept.
And, we have the smartest man in History in the White House!
Ripped commented:
More of our failed foreign policy hard at work, weren’t these the same people we called “freedom fighters” as we assisted them in their take over of Libya and the same people we are fighting in Afghanistan, it’s time we quit meddling in other countries business. This will certainly come back to haunt us.
Can anybody tell me what has changed there, outside of they now have a new group of tyrants torturing people?
Shawn commented:
We waste billions of dollars trying to change the world to our way of thinking. We help get rid of one thug only to have 10 take his place. Our money would be better spent at home.
Granny commented:
#3 February 4, 2012 at 12:51 am
Molon Labe commented:
Are we supposed to weep for this man?
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Perhaps not. But I sure as all hell do weep for the roll of the United States of America under the direction of Barack Obama in putting the animals in power who did this.
listingstarboard commented:
Its was all about the oil and gold.
no dice commented:
3 February 4, 2012 at 12:51 am
Molon Labe commented:
Are we supposed to weep for this man
i’d say you had better start weeping for turning that fool loose on the world molon.
you know who i mean bumluck bummer!
Ripped commented:
3 February 4, 2012 at 12:51 am
Molon Labe commented:
“Are we supposed to weep for this man”
Yes, because no matter what he did, being tortured to death was NOT the answer. Two wrongs never make a right.
#1AMERICAN commented:
no more of our money should go to any crap hole mooslum country…PERIOD…..anyone who vote to give funding should be shipped to that country…
Zim commented:
pray and prepare
nadadhimmi commented:
Arab Spring = Springtime for Hitler
aprilnovember811 commented:
Remember everyone, Satan/Zero said water boarding is torture. Yes, the slime oozing out of the White House said this. This old media FOX included are bastards for not exposing this demon!
Sasja commented:
This will continue until Islam is no more.
dunce commented:
He was not tortured for anything he did. They wanted to know where Gadaffi stashed the cash, this had nothing to do with democracy or freedom. They did not learn anything in that short a time for two reasons, he did not know and it takes a long time to break someone down psychologically unless you use water boarding. If they took time and did it right he might have told them who did know what bank held the money and then get that guy to reveal the accounts names and numbers.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Now, aren’t we all happy that got rid of the bad Kadaffi regime, and put these wonderful people in charge, instead! Now, let’s say it, altogether—ARRRRRRRAAAABBBBBBBB SPRRRRINGGGGGGGG! /Sarc.
(And I hated Kadaffi—but this war wasn’t about getting him, it was about putting Islamic fundamentalists in power.)
Ripped commented:
#30 February 4, 2012 at 9:49 am
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
It has nothing to do with putting Islamic fundamentalists in power.
Some say it’s all about oil, then why the rush to set up a new central bank?
Another provocative bit of data circulating on the Net is a 2007 “Democracy Now” interview of US General Wesley Clark (Ret). In it he says that about 10 days after September 11, 2001, he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. Clark was surprised and asked why. “I don’t know!” was the response. “I guess they don’t know what else to do!” Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers’ central bank in Switzerland.
Do a little research NO central bank in Iran either. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD14Ak02.html
texas commented:
So this is the “Arab Spring” that the Liberals were all excited about? What a bunch of barbarians. This is disgusting!!
Prayers for the World.
Liz commented:
Animals.
Who authorized Fast & Furious? commented:
Where’s Samantha Power?
gosh! commented:
Jordan’s King Abdallah on how no one trust the Obama’s government in the Middle-East………..http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/jordans-king-abdallah-on-how-no-one-trusts-obamas-governmentin-the-arab-world/question-2256325/?page=6………….just sayin