Monday, August 04, 2008

Terrorist sues over porn-a-loo

AN Iraqi terror boss is demanding legal aid to sue the MoD — over PORN left in his jail toilet.
Ahmed Al-Fartoosi — blamed for the deaths of dozens of Brits — is to sue the Government for tens of thousands of pounds.


On top of the loo claim, Fartoosi — accused of leading the fanatic Mehdi Army and masterminding a bombing campaign against Our Boys in Basra — wants “substantial damages” for:

HEARING porn videos being played on a soldier’s laptop;
BUMPING his arm and thigh when being put in an armoured vehicle; and
LOSING sleep in his cell due to noise and lights from a corridor.

Fartoosi — represented by anti-war lawyer Phil Shiner — also moaned his solitary confinement room was too hot.
MoD officials said there was no record of Fartoosi making any complaints while in jail. The MoD is investi-gating.
As many as 25 British troops had died in Mehdi Army attacks in southern Iraq before Fartoosi, in has 40s, was jailed for two years in 2005.

He is suing for false imprisonment and violations of new European human rights laws.
In the claim to Defence Secretary Des Browne his lawyers say: “The claimant was deprived of sleep by UK soldiers knocking on the door regularly or shining a strong light in his face.”
A senior military source said: “This maniac’s claims are preposterous. It’s an insult to the British soldiers who died in Basra.”

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