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| Iraqi militants deny torturing British hostage |
| 2010-03-16 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A breakaway Iraqi Shiite militia has denied allegations that it tortured a Briton it held captive for more than two years, U.S. monitoring group SITE Intelligence reported on Monday. The League of the Righteous -- a splinter group from the former Mahdi Army of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr which led two uprisings against U.S.-led troops in 2004 -- said the allegations were "false", SITE said. Peter Moore, who was held by the League from May 2007 to December 2009, said in interviews last week that the group tortured him. The League posted a 47-second video clip on its website on Sunday in which "Moore plays with a small child, watches television, eats and exercises," SITE said. The group "claims his treatment is just as the 47-second video clip depicts," the monitoring group added. In an interview broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 News on Thursday, Moore said he was left "screaming in pain" during a torture session which ended with him hanging from a door by a pair of handcuffs. Moore said he endured several mock executions and spent two years of his captivity on his own, living in cramped rooms and guarded by a rotating group of insurgents Three of Moore's British guards were killed by their captors, and the fourth was believed to have been killed although his body was never returned. Moore said his kidnappers made it clear they wanted several leaders of their group held by the Americans to be released in exchange for him. Several of the group's members were among batches of Iraqis freed from U.S. detention and eventually, at the end of December, Moore was driven to a rendezvous with an Iraqi MP and told he was being released. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 well, of course, we should believe these guys, cuz they're all holy and shit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-16 18:52 |