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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 “handcuffed, dragged from the airport, and humiliated in public,” before being jailed on false charges.

Then, things apparently got really bad.

Combat veteran Scott F. Butler is now seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages from his former...

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