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Chapters: William Sampson, Angus Macfadyen, Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill, Michael Tweedie, Frederick Nutter Chasen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Sampson, born April 17, 1959 ) , is a dual British and Canadian national who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on December 17, 2000 on a variety of charges including terrorism, espionage and murder. He was imprisoned and tortured for two years and seven months, and finally released and permitted to leave Saudi Arabia, along with several of his co-accused, on August 8, 2003. In 2005 Sampson published a book about his experience entitled Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison. Sampson was born at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton, Nova Scotia Canada. The son of a British father and a Canadian mother, Sampson spent periods in Canada, England, Scotland and Singapore. At age 16 he joined the Seaforth Highlanders militia in Vancouver. He stayed on for 18 months. He holds an MBA from Edinburgh University and a PhD in biochemistry. He worked in biochemical research and pharmaceutical marketing prior to moving to Riyadh in 1998 to work as a marketing consultant with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund, a government development bank. On the morning of December 17, 2000, Sampson was snatched at gunpoint by police as he left his home in Riyadh on his way to work. He was taken to Al-Hair Prison where regular sessions of physical and psychological torture began immediately. Among other things, Sampson says he was severely and repeatedly beaten, foot whipped, deprived of sleep, and raped. After six initial days of torture largely conducted by three men, Ibrahim al-Dali (officer of the Mabaheth, the Saudi Arabian general intelligence service), Khaled al-Saleh (officer of the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=189630 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Brylcreem Boys is a 1997 film directed and co-written by Terence Ryan about the extraordinary neutrality arrangements pertaining to Ireland during World War II, by the Éamon de Valera government. The title comes from a popular nickname for the RAF during the period. Dublin made agreements with Berlin and London during the war that any serviceman, on active service, found on Irish soil would be interned for the duration of hostilities. They were interned in adjoining camps, at Naas, County Kildare. The film is a romantic comedy with a triangle formed by a Canadian pilot, a German pilot, both interned at the camp under extremely flexible arrangements, and a local woman. ... Read more