Badly tortured Guantanamo defendant calls tribunals a con

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By Jane Sutton
39 minutes ago

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - An Ethiopian prisoner called his Guantanamo war crimes tribunal a con on Thursday and said that after four years of interrogations, the U.S. military had not even managed to learn the correct spelling of his name

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"This is four years of interrogation, highly intensive ... torture, and you still don't have the right name," he told the tribunal's presiding officer, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann. "The man you are looking for is not here."

The defendant compared Kohlmann to Adolf Hitler and prosecutors to vampire slayers. He calmly criticized the tribunals as "crap" that set a bad example for the world and poked fun at their formal name, commissions.

"This is not a commission. It's a con mission. It's a mission to con the world," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060406/wl_canada_nm/canada_security_guantanamo_col_10

[OneBlueSky]

1. everything BushCo does is a con . . .

that's the sum and substance of their maladministration . . . conning the American people while swinging their dicks and lining their pockets . . . someone should come up with the graphic . . .

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Gives a whole new (?) meaning to the term

NeoCON