CIA made Rolling Stone satire into dirty bomb plot: report

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from Raw Story: http://rawstory.com/news/2008

Monday February 9, 2009

'How to Build an H-Bomb' was a joke, but apparently helped buttress CIA case

A British citizen held at Guantanamo Bay who the Pentagon accused of plotting to build a dirty bomb had actually been reading a satirical article re-posted from Rolling Stone, according to a British newspaper report.

Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopan janitor who was seeking asylum in Britain, allegedly admitted to browsing a story that instructs readers how to building a nuclear bomb. Trouble is, that story was apparently a joke.

Mohamed says that he made the admission -- and others relating to purported terrorism -- after being beaten, hung by his wrists for a week, having a gun held to his head, and held in a dungeon-like cell at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.

A British newspaper reported Sunday that the "offending article," "How to Build An H-Bomb," was actually published in Rolling Stone and re-posted on other websites.

"Written by Barbara Ehrenreich, the publication’s food editor, Rolling Stone journalist Peter Biskind and scientist Michio Kaku, it claims that a nuclear weapon can be made ‘using a bicycle pump’ and with liquid uranium ‘poured into a bucket and swung round,'" the Daily Mail wrote Sunday.

"We can reveal that the story which apparently led to Mohamed’s ordeal could not possibly have been used by a terrorist to build a nuclear weapon," the paper added. "The satirical article, published in Seven Days magazine, says its authors were given ‘three days to cook up a workable H-bomb. They did and we have decided to share their culinary secrets with you.’


The CIA decided that despite its humorous intentions, the reading of the piece was enough to accuse the 30-year-old janitor of plotting a dirty bomb attack . . .


read: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Man_held_at_Guantanamo_accused_of_0209.html

[CJCRANE]

1. "Mohamed says that he made the admission

...after being beaten, hung by his wrists for a week, having a gun held to his head, and held in a dungeon-like cell".

[barbtries]

2. yep.

and yet the best the motherfuckers could come up with was satire?!

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4. That sentence needs to be aired into the populace as a reason

to wake up. "after being beaten, hung by his wrists for a week, having a gun held to his head, and held in a dungeon-like cell".

[tanyev]

3. And George Tenet walked away with a Medal of Freedom.

:grr:

[Earth_First]

5. What a country! n/t

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6. these trickling reports are just the beginning of coming revelations of US abuses

This is a reflection of America under Bush (albeit exploiting the inaction of a compliant and complicit Congress).