Osama Aide Gets 32 Years in Guard Maiming w/comb.

[Tellurian]

NEW YORK - A former top aide to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was sentenced Monday to 32 years behind bars for stabbing a prison guard in the eye with a sharpened comb.

Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 46, buried his face in his hands and put his head down as the guard, Louis Pepe, waved a black comb and told of the attack in 2000 that left him brain-damaged and barely able to see.

U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts ordered Pepe removed from the courtroom after several outbursts. As he was taken out, he shouted: "I'm dead! You understand that? I'm dead!"

After Pepe left the courtroom, followed in protest by more than a dozen prison guards, Salim told the judge: "I'm sorry. I'm trying to understand his loss."

Salim, appearing agitated with his right hand shaking uncontrollably, objected to some of Pepe's accusations, including an allegation that Salim and an accomplice had tried to rape Pepe. "If this happened, I'd ask you to execute me," Salim said.

The judge called the attack "appalling" and said it was an "unusually cruel, brutal, gratuitous infliction of injury."

wondering if the judiciary will be as tough on Iraqi Crimes of Torture?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/attacks_prison_stabbing

[Tellurian]

1. I guess this judge hasn't seen the prison photos...nt

[Throckmorton]

2. Huh,

I don't get your meaning. Its OK to poke a guys eye out with a sharpened comb?

[Tellurian]

3. pointing out the jail sentence..iow-what sentence for the Iraqi Torturers?

[FreeSpeechCrusader]

4. don't get it...

It was "appalling" and an "unusually cruel, brutal, gratuitous infliction of injury".

[FreeSpeechCrusader]

5. Okay...I see what you were going for now...n/t

[Tellurian]

6. Good on ya... FSCrusader!