Suspect at Guantanamo claims torture (Cole confession)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Suspect at Guantanamo claims torture

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
54 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A suspected Saudi terrorist told a military hearing that he was tortured
into confessing that he was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole, according to a
Pentagon transcript released Friday.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national of Yemeni descent, said he made up stories
that tied him to the 2000 Cole attack, which killed 17 U.S. sailors and nearly succeeded
in sinking the $1 billion destroyer in Aden harbor, Yemen.

"From the time I was arrested five years ago, they have been torturing me. It happened
during interviews. One time they tortured me one way, and another time they tortured
me in a different way," al-Nashiri said, according to the transcript. "I just said those
things to make the people happy. They were very happy when I told them those things."

Portions of the 36-page hearing transcript were redacted, and the transcript does not
include any details of the torture that al-Nashiri said took place over five years.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that any allegations of torture would be
investigated. He said sections were blacked out of the transcript because of national
security reasons.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_terror_hearing

[maddezmom]

1. National security reasons?

:puke:

[sabra]

2. k & r

[Qutzupalotl]

3. 'k.