{"id":20554,"date":"2022-12-19T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/?p=20554"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:47:18","slug":"ex-green-beret-says-emirati-bigwig-targeted-him-in-total-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/es\/ex-green-beret-says-emirati-bigwig-targeted-him-in-total-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Green Beret Says Emirati Bigwig Targeted Him in \u2018Total War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Butler claims his business partner had him falsely arrested, got his passport seized, and swindled him out of a multi-million-dollar villa.<\/p>\n<p>When a garden-variety business dispute turned ugly, an ex-U.S. Army Special Forces operator running an anti-counterfeiting consultancy in Dubai says he was \u201chandcuffed, dragged from the airport, and humiliated in public,\u201d before being jailed on false charges.<\/p>\n<p>Then, apparently, things got really bad.<\/p>\n<p>Combat veteran Scott F. 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