Guantanamo man says UK knew he would be tortured

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British intelligence knew in advance that a former London janitor now awaiting trial by a U.S. military commission in Guantanamo Bay would be tortured in an Arab country to extract evidence, his lawyers allege.

Lawyers for Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 29, filed a High Court case on Tuesday to try to force the British government to give evidence that would help his defense to expected charges before the tribunal at the U.S. detention camp on Cuba.

They say a British security official interviewed Mohamed after he was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002, and told him he would be transferred to an Arab country and tortured.

Mohamed says he was flown to Morocco in July 2002 on a CIA plane and held there for 18 months, during which time he says he was repeatedly stripped naked and cut with a scalpel on his chest and penis. He was transferred to Afghanistan in 2004 and finally, later that year, to Guantanamo.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0613482420080506

[lonestarnot]

1. Torture torture torture.

My worry is, that the more people hear this truth, that they will become desensitized due to the repetitive descriptions and number of cases.

[LynnTheDem]

2. We need to first lose the hypocrisy; we TORTURE people.

We RENDITION people. We DISAPPEAR people. We ASSASSINATE people.

We do every damn thing -and more- that Saddam Hussein was accused of doing.

And that makes us very much worse.

[ohio2007]

3. 'Guantanamo man' in Iraq bombing ( A former Kuwaiti detainee )

A former Kuwaiti detainee at the US camp at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in northern Iraq, the US military has said.

A spokesman for US Central Command told the Associated Press that Abdullah al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul on 29 April that killed several people.

Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis blew up two explosive-packed vehicles next to Iraqi security forces, media reports say.

The US transferred Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo Bay in 2005.

He was later acquitted by a Kuwaiti court of terrorism charges.

According to Kuwaiti and pan-Arab media reports, Ajmi and his two alleged accomplices, Nasir al-Dawsari and Badr al-Harbi, were able to leave Kuwait a month ago without alerting the attention of the authorities because they had wrongly been issued new passports.

They then travelled to Syria, where Ajmi is reported to have told his family of his intentions, before heading onto Iraq.

The families of Ajmi and Harbi reportedly later received anonymous calls informing them that the men had died in Iraq.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7388762.stm


I take it Mohamed doesn't long for the 72 virgin road trip after his Gitmo stay.
But
maybe
he holds his cards close to his vest ?..... LOL :)