An Ex-Detainee of the U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal

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Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was secretly taken to Egypt and tortured.


LAHORE, Pakistan — When Muhammad Saad Iqbal arrived home here in August after more than six years in American custody, including five at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he had difficulty walking, his left ear was severely infected, and he was dependent on a cocktail of antibiotics and antidepressants.

In November, a Pakistani surgeon operated on his ear, physical therapists were working on lower back problems and a psychiatrist was trying to wean him off the drugs he carried around in a white, plastic shopping bag.

The maladies, said Mr. Iqbal, 31, a professional reader of the Koran, are the result of a gantlet of torture, imprisonment and interrogation for which his Washington lawyer plans to sue the United States government.

The coming administration of President-elect Barack Obama is weighing whether to close the Guantánamo prison, which many critics have called an extralegal system of detention and abuse.

But the full stories of individual detainees like Mr. Iqbal are only now emerging after years in which they were shuttled around the globe under the Bush administration’s system of extraordinary rendition, which used foreign countries to interrogate and detain terrorism suspects in sites beyond the reach of American courts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/asia/06iqbal.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

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1. America has hung enemies for the same crimes. nt

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2. REPUBLICON 'family values' torture freaks. Ptoooey

Creating animosity & enemies for America.

Ptoooey on republicon torture and the hateful karma it generates around the world...

What would Jesus do? And why do republicon so-called Christians never ask themselves this question?

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3. plain & simple...WAR CRIMES