US denies torturing Iranian diplomat

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/April/theworld_April186.xml§ion=theworld

7 April 2007

CRAWFORD, Texas - The United States on Saturday denied involvement in the detention of an Iranian diplomat who said he was tortured by his captors, whom he said included US intelligence agents.

“The United States had nothing to do with Mr Sharafi’s detention, and we welcome his return to Iran,” White House national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters in this Texas town where President George W. Bush is spending Easter at his country ranch.

Jalal Sharafi, second secretary at Iran’s Baghdad embassy, was quoted by the Iranian state news agency IRNA as saying he was ”subjected to different forms of torture day and night” after his abduction in the Iraqi capital in February.

He said he was seized by Iraqi defense officials who rode in US military vehicles, and questioned by Arabic-speaking and English-speaking interrogators, including ones who he claimed were US intelligence agents.

[Junkdrawer]

1. Butter wouldn't melt in our mouth...it's not like we're now world famous....

for this stuff... :sarcasm:

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. kick

[NNN0LHI]

3. I still say Bush was planning on hanging this guy right before the next election

His base would have loved it.

Don

[Robbien]

4. Well how about that.

Not only did we not torture the guy, we didn't even capture him. The Iraqis all on their own grabbed up the diplomat. All by themselves Iraqis put him in secret prisons and tortured him.

yeah, right. We know nuthin.

[Ghost in the Machine]

5. in other news, Bush says Iraq has WMD's ready to deploy...

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