Last week, Abdulemam was given a “now-or-never proposition” by someone in Bahrain. He got into a secret compartment in a car and was driven across the causeway that connects his tiny island nation to Saudi Arabia……. From Saudi Arabia, he snuck into Kuwait, from which he was smuggled by fishermen into Iraq. There, he took two flights to Baghdad and finally, last week, made it to London………..[About his torturers} “I cannot call them a human; they are savage,” he said. “They were enjoying torturing us.”………........"
Note: he is seeking asylum in Britain.
Ali Abdulemam represents an interesting and shameful fact about the plight of Arab opposition in general. The shame of it is that no Arab country, not a single one of 21 Arab countries would grant him asylum. ...........It is interesting that allegedly "liberated" Egypt and Libya and Tunisia all refuse to accept dissidents............leaders of the Syrian opposition are doing the same. Few of them, if any, flock to Arab capitals to run their opposition..........<< MORE >>