Habib 'tortured with prostitute'

[LiviaOlivia]

The Courier Mail Queensland
Habib 'tortured with prostitute'
27jan05

AUSTRALIAN Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib was tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him after he failed to co-operate with interrogators, his lawyer said yesterday.

Interrogators also told the Sydney man they had killed his family and superimposed animals' heads on photos of his wife and children, Mr Habib's lawyer Steven Hopper said yesterday.

~snip~

He said Mr Habib also said he was subjected to interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay like those used on prisoners at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

~snip~

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12062502%255E421,00.html

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. And this all just popped into the prison guards heads to do I'm sure

DAMN!!!!

:grr:

[bif]

2. My God. You can't make stuff this horrible up!

We are a sick people.

[youngdem]

24. No,no, no...

"We" are not sick people. At least I am not. This is horrible. The lunatics that are in office are sick people.I am so sick of these; right wing, bible thumping assholes that claim that we have to do this for the sake of our country, to protect from "terrorism." The terrorist are in our back yard,(the ones driving their cutesy little SUV's with their Little W stickers all over the back window,and their Choose life license plates.) And what about our "good ole boy" elected leader? He needs to be locked up.

[seriousstan]

3. Link doesn't work for me...wait...it does now.

[LiviaOlivia]

It works for me

??

on edit: just posted to kos also.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/26/152019/537

[bif]

5. Yep. Page loads without a story.

[TNOE]

4. Oh come on - just merely college hazing...

or like cheerleaders or something. /Sarcasam/

Man, this is sick. I wish I believed in hell, the people that did this would surely go there..... sick, sick, sick

[DrWeird]

6. Old news.

But worth repeating.

[Pirate Smile]

7. .

:wow:

[TahitiNut]

8. Tell me a prostitute got into Gitmo without command-level authority.

This is beyond bizarre.

[codswallop]

11. The spooky weirdness of the dark corners of the military mind

is a frightning reality of unknown proportion.

[NashVegas]

26. I'm Not Sure I Believe It, Either

Looks like the equal and opposite of 'tossing babies out of incubators.'

[livinginphotographs]

30. That's what I thought.

Makes me skeptical, but who knows, with the shit that's coming out day after day.

[TahitiNut]

33. The depth of the problem is shown by the fact this can be believed.

There's no way in hell it could have happened without command-level approval and facilitation.

It's possible, if there're female personnel assigned to Gitmo, that one of them played a little "make believe" ... and even that's really hard to envision .. and that might've taken place without explicit command approval. At a minimum, it'd take some implicit approval, though.

[benburch]

9. US Government Funds paid a sexworker???

Where is the outrage?

[aquart]

13. GO with that!

How many other prostitutes have we funded? Did she get minimum wage?

OUR TAXES ARE BUYING PROSTITUTES!!!!!!

Was she an American prostitute or did they outsource that, too?

[Bucky]

17. "Our taxes buying prostitutes". Did we try this w/ the Armstrong story?

It does beg the question about why and how they had a mentruating hooker standing around the barracks in the first place.

Or maybe she wasn't officially a prostitute until the moment that she did this.

[jdj]

20. I don't believe this.

Sorry.

I guess you go for the cultural beliefs, in which case American GI's will be forced to hold hands with Sponge Bob.

I don't know, I mean, it's so stupid. I just think that he's probably saying what things will be most culturaly offensive. But if I it were me, I'd say, go ahead violate my culture, just don't hurt me.

[codswallop]

10. This is such a degenerating culture

of power gone wrong.

omg

[tubbacheez]

12. Can anyone send this to Alberto Gonzales and Con Rice?

Or at least Barbara Boxer for inclusion in her next set of show-stopping charts?

[rzemanfl]

14. There's the Bush Administration helping the economy again by

finding new work for prostitutes during a period (excuse the pun) that they might otherwise be unemployed.

[Disturbed]

15. According to the defintion of torture by Gonzales

this does not qualify as such. He should be asked if it is ok by him for the U.S to keep doing tis kind of crap.

Any Dem that votes for Gonzales should not be in Congress.

[Zookeeper]

16. Claiming to kill his family and showing him doctored...

photos sounds more horrible than just about anything they could have done to him physically.

I have no idea where that fits into the idea of humane treatment during interrogation. Does anyone know if the official definition of prisoner abuse would include something like that?

[lostnfound]

23. No compassion, no dignity, no decency, no humanity.

I agree with what you said.

It's just so terribly sad.

[accipiter]

18. If this is true and can be proven

It should be a huge scandal.

[stevedeshazer]

19. As Limbaugh said,

They were "just blowing off steam". :grr:

[kuozzman]

21. Why am I the first to say "THAT'S F*CK*NG DISGUSTING!"

:puke:

[youngdem]

I will be the second to say this...

[kuozzman]

22. New acronym: ITIGH!

I Think I'm Gonna Hurl:puke:

[superconnected]

25. were did the guard get the photos of the guys family?

and yeah, how did the prostitute gain entry access, I thought it was a maximum security prison.

[soaky]

31. The australian media

there have been plenty of photos published.

[bobthedrummer]

27. Hey, it's not torture-cheerleaders do stuff like that!

:+

[Rockerdem]

28. It wasnt punishment

It was some fundies sick idea of a reward (/sarcasm)

[Kablooie]

29. and NONE of this occurred before GEORGE W. BUSH became president!

But of course this sensitive and christian man is shocked, shocked! that this is going on.

The bucket next to me is just about filled with vomit I'm sorry to say.

[KissMeKate]

32. I wonder what repug christians would say

about religious torture.