Torture Tape Delays U.S.-UAE Nuclear Deal : Homeland Security News

Torture Tape Delays U.S.-UAE Nuclear Deal : Homeland Security News

Torture Tape Delays U.S.-UAE Nuclear Deal : Homeland Security News: "A videotape of a heinous torture session is delaying the ratification of a civil nuclear deal between the United Arab Emirates and the United States, senior U.S. officials familiar with the case said.

In the tape, an Afghan grain dealer is seen being tortured by a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi, one of the UAE’s seven emirates.

The senior U.S. officials said the administration has held off on the ratification process because it believes sensitivities over the story can hurt its passage. The tape emerged in a federal civil lawsuit filed in Houston, Texas, by Bassam Nabulsi, a U.S. citizen, against Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan. Former business partners, the men had a falling out, in part over the tape. In a statement to CNN, the sheikh’s U.S. attorney said Nabulsi is using the videotape to influence the court over a business dispute."

Here is the video.
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I somehow don't think that OBAMA should be running around apologizing for us to people like this.
Nor do I think that we should call our intelligence people who are trying to save lives against people like this torturers for what they have done. Remember our people did this to terrorists who were hell bent on killing Americans.
These people do it as a matter of business to each other for .. well business.
This was done to this man for the sum of about $5,000.00 missing to a sheik. The man who smuggled the tape out of the UAE was also tortured the same way.

America wake up, this is torture. Telling a guy that he will be in a cell with an insect that will bite him (that actually won't) is NOT torture.

How the hell are we going to keep safe if we don't use some form of trickery or mental pressure on people who are training to prevail against normal intelligence gathering efforts and are readily subjected to this type of treatment as a matter of living in their countries.