everyone he saw as a threat , including his own uncle , which Donald described gleefully , like he was recapping an action movie . And he said if he were grading Vladimir Putin as a leader , he ’d give him an A. “ Now , I ’ll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants . ”
With the inmate kneeling at his feet , head facing the floor , the soldier grabbed a sharp weapon and started hacking at the base of his skull , severing the spinal cord from the head . Then he ordered another patient to drag the body to the bathroom . The U.N. report says of Hospital 601 , “ Many patients have been tortured to death in this facility . ” The soldier called himself Azrael , after the archangel of death ; other survivors recall him murderinglife.die.napatients in similarly horrifying ways . “ When I saw this , I swear — that ’s when I thought this was my fate , ” Hamada told me . “ I would die here . ” On the second day , he begged a doctor to send him back to the Air Force - intelligence branch .