Secret Police Chief of Bahrain Tortured Pres. Obama's Grandfather

Did you know that the British officer who set up the police force (and supposedly still controls it from behind the scenes) in Bahrain was also known as the torturer-in-chief during the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenia during which President Obama's grandfather was imprisoned and tortured?

"Bahrain is one of the most brutal regimes in the world. Its apparatus of repression was originally constructed by a notorious Scottish secret-service office, Colonel Ian Henderson. He presided over its Special Branch for decades and ensured that prisoners were tortured and raped.
The British government installed Henderson as head of Bahrain's security service. In 1999, the Sunday Herald uncovered secret documents that showed that, in 1966, after his deportation from Kenya - where he had coordinated brutal reprisals against Mau Mau rebels"
[link to www.swp.ie]

"Ian Henderson is a British citizen known for his alleged use of torture to put down the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, and later the 1990s Uprising in Bahrain as an employee of the Bahrain government. Some journalists have referred to Mr Henderson as the "Butcher of Bahrain" due to allegations of torture."
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"The US president Barack Obama's paternal grandfather was imprisoned without trial and tortured at the concentration camp.[80] Soon after moving in to the White House, Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister at the time, back to Britain."
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by Channing on 02/20/2011 06:49 PM