“He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down,” she said The alleged torture was said to have left Mr Onyango permanently scarred, and bitterly antiBritish. “That was the time we realised that the British were actually not friends but, instead, enemies,” Mrs Onyango said. “My husband had worked so diligently for them, only to be arrested and detained.”
Mr Onyango full name was Hussein Onyango Obama, President-elect Obama’s paternal grandfather.
I wonder how that’s going to effect the supposed Special Relationship between the UK and the USA?
A “feral beast”
gets its revenge:
Mr Blair replied that he did not take lightly the “deep and profound responsibility” of sending British forces to war because he was a “human being”.
Probably, the best use of ironic quotes, ever.
[hat tip: Blood & Treasure]
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