Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 10, 2011

Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was abducted in Pakistan by bounty hunters. In Pakistan, Habib was tortured under CIA supervision; in one session he was hung by a ceiling hook and subjected to electric shocks until he bled from every bodily opening.

Habib was then sent by way of ?extraordinary rendition? to Egypt, where he was tortured for five months under the personal direction of Omar Suleiman, head of the Egyptian secret police and the country?s newly appointed vice president. Habib was beaten, shocked, immersed in water up to his nostrils, hung from metal hooks, and had several fingers broken. On one occasion, an interrogator ? seeking to wring a confession from Habib -- killed a shackled prisoner in front of him. This was done at Suleiman?s direction.

Like the dictator he will replace, Suleiman was trained by the Soviets. The thugs who carried out his orders, however, received their Soviet-style training in torture from the CIA and the FBI.

Once again we should ask: Which side really won the Cold War?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.