US faces new claims of jail abuse

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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Thursday April 14, 2005
The Guardian

The Pentagon was yesterday confronted with new allegations of torture at Guantánamo Bay, from a Bosnian inmate who said he was beaten so severely his face was left partially paralysed.

In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Boston, the Pentagon was challenged to release medical and psychiatric records for six Bosnian detainees who say they were tortured at Guantánamo.

The six inmates, all Algerians who had been settled in Bosnia for years, were originally accused of plotting an attack against the US embassy in Sarajevo. They were eventually cleared of all charges and released from prison.

However, they were seized by the US military in January 2002, hooded, and taken to Guantánamo.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1459013,00.html

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1. American Gulags

George W. Stupidhead's legacy to the 21st Century. Fitting to mention him in the same breath with Stalin.