Australian Claims Torture in Egypt (U.S. transferred him there from Cuba)

[Khephra]

SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian terror suspect detained in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks alleges he was transferred by U.S. authorities to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with beatings, electric shocks and nearly drowned while being interrogated.

Mamdouh Habib, who is being held prisoner by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, made the allegations of mistreatment in court papers filed by his lawyers, who are seeking to prevent the U.S. government from sending him back to Egypt.

Habib, a 48-year-old Egyptian-born father of four from Sydney, was arrested near the Afghanistan border three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. His attorneys alleged that the United States had asked Pakistan to send Habib to Egypt, knowing he was likely to be tortured.

The affidavit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in November and made public on Wednesday, alleges Habib was subjected to routine beatings and torture while in Egyptian custody and coerced into making confessions that were not true.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-australian-torture,0,1839081.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[pennylane100]

1. I know the US has done this on more than one occasion.

What I don't understand is why would a muslim country such as Eygypt do our dirty work considering how our government has treat Muslims since 9/11.

[Moderator]

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