Obama 'whitewash' can't repay prison horror: ex-inmate

[struggle4progress]

LAHORE (AFP) — Mohammad Saad breaks into sobs and gut-wrenching moans when he details six years' humiliation, interrogation and ill-treatment under US orders in Egypt, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay ...

"Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay is a mere whitewash. Obama has to apologise to the prisoners, to their families and their societies", Saad said ...

Saad says he was 24 years old, a lecturer in Islamic studies and a sought-after reciter of the Koran visiting family in Jakarta when Indonesian agents acting on US orders arrested him before dawn on January 9, 2002 ...

In Egypt, he says he was incarcerated in an underground cell for 92 days, his knees and back given electric shocks, and interrogated by Egyptians about Washington's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden ...

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[Demeter]

1. thing Is, I'm Sure Obama Will. It's BUSH That Should Be Doing It and Jail Time!

[HughMoran]

3. Bush can't be tried soon enough for his war crimes

These stories make me angry!

:mad:

[Gregorian]

2. This transcends administrations. The World Court must get involved.

And now we are going to be a part of the world again.

In his own words- Bring it on!

[bertman]

4. And some dumbasses wonder why released Gitmo prisoners might go back and become

jihadis.

As Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff, said "Our detention camps are the best recruitment tool al Qaeda has." Or something to that effect.