Former prisoner tells of torture at Guantanamo

[Judi Lynn]

Former prisoner tells of torture at Guantanamo
(AFP)

14 November 2006

ANKARA - A German-born Turk, who was held for four years in the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, has alleged systematic torture in the hands of the US military, from beatings to being chained to a ceiling for days.

Murat Kurnaz, 24, who was released in August because of lack of evidence he was involved in terrorist activities, said he endured ”many types of torture -- from electric shocks to having one’s head submerged in water, (subjection to) hunger and thirst, or being shackled and suspended.”

A burly man with long reddish hair and a thick beard stretching down to his belly, Kurnaz spoke, betraying no emotion, to Turkey’s CNN Turk television from his home in Bremen, northern Germany, in an interview aired here late Monday.

“They tell you “you are from Al Qaed”’ and when you say “no” they give the (electric) current to your feet.... As you keep saying ‘no’ this goes on for two or three hours,” he said, adding he had several times lost consciousness.
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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/November/theworld_November460.xml§ion=theworld

[peacebird]

1. just a grim reminder of how far down America has sunken - the BFEE have no shame

It will be decades before the world forgives us...
We have takem the first step in this election - now we must follow through if we are to redeem the honor of Lady Liberty.

[Solly Mack]

2. Warning: This post is oozing with contempt

No justice, No peace - NO healing.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Here's the working link for the story I posted. Sorry the first one didn't work.

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http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I4001-2005Mar26L

Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee
U.S. Military Intelligence, German Authorities Found No Ties to Terrorists

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 27, 2005; Page A01

A military tribunal determined last fall that Murat Kurnaz, a German national seized in Pakistan in 2001, was a member of al Qaeda and an enemy combatant whom the government could detain indefinitely at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The three military officers on the panel, whose identities are kept secret, said in papers filed in federal court that they reached their conclusion based largely on classified evidence that was too sensitive to release to the public.


In fact, that evidence, recently declassified and obtained by The Washington Post, shows that U.S. military intelligence and German law enforcement authorities had largely concluded there was no information that linked Kurnaz to al Qaeda, any other terrorist organization or terrorist activities.

In recently declassified portions of a January ruling, a federal judge criticized the military panel for ignoring the exculpatory information that dominates Kurnaz's file and for relying instead on a brief, unsupported memo filed shortly before Kurnaz's hearing by an unidentified government official.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3868-2005Mar26.html

[Stuckinthebush]

4. The Dems should have hearings

Bringing witnesses forward to openly discuss the horrors committed our name.

Only then can we start gaining our lost respect back from the world community. As it stands now, we are nothing more than a third world dictatorship with zero moral fiber.

The Bushies and the ethically challenged GOP have destroyed us. Worst of all, it wasn't for ideology...it was for money.

Sick bastards.