Guantanamo inmate was tortured: father

[IChing]

Source: the australian

From correspondents in Washington
April 17, 2007


THE father of an al-Qaeda terror suspect being held in Guantanamo Bay claims his son was tortured by US interrogators in Pakistan after his capture.
A US military tribunal at the prison heard evidence over the weekend in a review of Majid Khan's status as an enemy combatant, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Khan, a Pakistani resident of Baltimore, Maryland, is one of 14 terror suspects that were transferred to Guantanamo from secret CIA detention facilities last year.

"This torture only stopped when Majid agreed to sign a statement that he was not even allowed to read," the statement said.

In announcing the transfer of the detainees to Guantanamo in September, President George W. Bush acknowledged that they had been subjected to "tough" interrogation tactics by the CIA but insisted they were "safe and lawful and necessary".

Read more: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21570773-1702,00.html

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the details of the torture are in the story

[cyberpj]

1. Gather the tortured. These horendous individual stories don't seem to matter to anyone.

Somehow, some way, the people subjected to the Bush/Rummy/Cheney torture chambers around the world must come together to tell their stories all at once in a huge public forum (Congress? - 60 minutes? - a book?) if they are to get through to Americans. Sadly.

[superconnected]

2. Americans for bush don't have a problem with ppl being tortured

[IChing]

3. Gonzales is the one that legalized torture for this government

White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales chaired the meetings on this issue, which included detailed descriptions of interrogation techniques such as "waterboarding," a tactic intended to make detainees feel as if they are drowning. He raised no objections and, without consulting military and State Department experts in the laws of torture and war, approved an August 2002 memo that gave CIA interrogators the legal blessings they sought.

Gonzales, working closely with a small group of conservative legal officials at the White House, the Justice Department and the Defense Department -- and overseeing deliberations that generally excluded potential dissenters -- helped chart other legal paths in the handling and imprisonment of suspected terrorists and the applicability of international conventions to U.S. military and law enforcement activities.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48446-2005Jan4.html

[cyberpj]

5. I knew that but hadn't see this pre-confirmation article. The Dems that voted yes for this man

and my own reps fall in that category, should be reminded again and again of their treasonous votes.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Name one Democratic Presidential candidate that advocates the closing of Guantanamo

other than Dennis Kucinich, who else?

[cyberpj]

6. OR - anyone going after the renditions? nt

[IndianaGreen]

7. These are core human rights issues, and if the Democrats won't stand for them

who will?