Obama's Tortured History

Here's an interesting tidbit I haven't seen reported over here in the States-- Obama's Kenyan relatives are now saying that Barack’s paternal grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was part of the Kenyan independence movement when he was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years. The unusual angle is that they allege he was tortured by his British guards to extract information about the insurgency.

“The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip him every morning and evening till he confessed,” Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango’s third wife, told reporters. According to her, the British soldiers would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down,” she told the paper.