Iraqi Gays Face Gruesome Torture/ Murder Technique

[Shoush]

Last week, Al Arabiya revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men - anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a powerful glue, then inducing diarrhea, which leads to a painful and agonizing death.

Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), told Al Arabiya that the torture substance "is an Iranian-manufactured glue that, if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death. Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile telephones in Iraq."

Mohammed told Gay City News that "the story was so horrific that when I first heard it from gay friends I didn't believe it. But then I investigated and found it was really true that the anuses of gay men were being glued shut." Speaking by telephone from Toronto, where she was on a brief visit to relatives before a scheduled return to Iraq next week, Mohammed told this reporter that, "Fortunately, Al Arabiya has a very good human rights reporter, to whom I told what I had found, and he was able to confirm it by visiting the morgue." She said that "many older women in my organization were quite opposed to taking up the question of the persecution of homosexuals and didn't understand why it was important. But I firmly believe that misogyny and homophobia are two sides of the same coin..."

http://gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20307475&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=569346&rfi=6

[tbyg52]

1. Sounds like it has been confirmed?

This was posted a while back, but I'm not sure if it went past a nasty rumor at that time.

Not that I have any trouble believing it. Some people are not human, obviously. There ought to be an outcry at the highest levels of our government, especially since we are still occupying Iraq.

[Baby Snooks]

2. This needs to be on the Greatest Page...

Everyone should read this. And then think about the silence about it on the part of the administration. That upsets me more than anything else.

It's not just this. It's so many other things happening as Irag moves towards the Dark Ages of Islam.

Perhaps all Obama cares about is all Bush cared about. The oil contracts.

[tbyg52]

3. I think he cares about more than W did, but

I think he may be letting political considerations rule on some very fundamental things. This, if verified, would certainly be one of them.

[mitchtv]

5. most of us believed it

the ususal suspect didn't show up to mock us.

[UndertheOcean]

4. I want to throw up