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Saddam Hussein's torture doctor working in UK for seven years

Dr Mohammed Kassim Al-Byati, the doctor who was involved in horrific torture while working for Saddam Hussein, has been working in British hospitals for seven years.

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Dr Mohammed Kassim Al-Byati, the doctor who was involved in horrific torture while working for Saddam Hussein, has been working in British hospitals for seven years.

The astonishing immigration scandal was revealed after reports emerged that the Labour government allowed the suspected war criminal in 2004 to treat thousands of British patients in the National Health Service (NHS) hospitals, the Daily Mail reports.

Reports suggested that checks had failed to uncover this fact that he was working for the notorious Iraqi Intelligence Agency during Saddam’s rule, and patched tortured victims so that they could be subjected to more appalling treatment.

Al-Byati had reportedly contacted the Home Office in 2007 to confess to his horrific past to claim asylum in Britain, but despite that, he managed to work in the West Midlands all these years.

Home Secretary Theresa May, who was 'horrified' to discover what had been taking place, has now ordered an urgent inquiry, and is reportedly planning changes to the rules to stop any similar cases slipping through the net.

"The home secretary was horrified to find out that this has been allowed to carry on for so long. She dragged the acting chief executive into her office and he got the hairdryer treatment," a senior source has said.  

"We always knew that Labour let the immigration system get out of control but we were genuinely stunned. The home secretary is seriously considering having a review of the way the entire agency works," the source added.

An end number of Iraqis were tortured, maimed and imprisoned under Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, and the favoured methods used by his secret police included eye-gouging, piercing of hands with an electric drill, suspension from a ceiling, electric shock, rape and other forms of sexual abuses like beating of the soles of feet, mock executions, extinguishing cigarettes on the body, and acid baths.

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