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2009-07-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Frozen Al 2009-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Rafsanjani? ferris? SISTANI? anyone? Guardian counsel?

Posted by newc">newc 2009-07-02 00:48|| 2009-07-02 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing to see here... Just an internal concern of the 'democratically elected' government of Iran that our leadership in DC supports

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-07-02 01:52|| 2009-07-02 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, vigorous debate and such.

Anyone for ice cream?

Posted by Scott R 2009-07-02 02:59|| 2009-07-02 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute.

Posted by Art 2009-07-02 10:44|| 2009-07-02 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Bambi's comment ... "but, but, but I told them I was appalled and disgusted." What a maroon.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-02 11:57|| 2009-07-02 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute.

IIUC, rape is a very common tactic in dictatorships - sorry to always bring that up, but don't forget that kaddafy had the bulgarian nurses raped by dogs to make them confess.
Here, we might have a special focus on homosexual rape because of of local psychosexual "habits"; while I don't doubt male prisoners have been raped by tortured all over the world and across the cultures (IIRC, sodomizing captured ennemies is a very common russian habit, that was and is a major sore point, no pun intended, even in now "pacified" chechnya), arabs seem to have "issues" here, this I gather from reading some israeli guys writing about how arab armies always try and feminize the adversary (notably by raping and/or emasculating prisoners or bodies, this was a notable SOP of the algerian FLN), or how arab secret polices use male-on-male rape to break political prisoners (read several bits about this, even way before getting online, heck, I read about a syrian - possible connection with the basiji's own FL - political prisoner being casually raped by his guards, back in a Reader's digest atleast 10-15 years ago).

The mysteries of the old and sophisticated east, I guess.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-07-02 12:48|| 2009-07-02 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll bet they miss SAVAK.

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-02 12:48|| 2009-07-02 12:48|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-02 16:56|| 2009-07-02 16:56|| Front Page Top

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