Binyam Mohamed Tortured/Beated Right Up To Departure From Gitmo - On SATURDAY!

[kpete]

Sunday Feb. 22, 2009 15:59 EST
Was Binyam Mohamed brutalized at Guantanamo in the last month?

The Guardian, today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/22/binyam-mohamed-injuries
Revealed: full horror of Gitmo inmate's beatings

Binyam Mohamed will return to Britain suffering from a huge range of injuries after being beaten by US guards right up to the point of his departure from Guantánamo Bay (on Saturday), according to the first detailed accounts of his treatment inside the camp.

Mohamed will arrive back tomorrow in the UK, where he was a British resident between 1984 and 2002. During medical examinations last week, doctors discovered injuries and ailments resulting from apparently brutal treatment in detention.

Mohamed was found to be suffering from bruising, organ damage, stomach complaints, malnutrition, sores to feet and hands, severe damage to ligaments as well as profound emotional and psychological problems which have been exacerbated by the refusal of Guantánamo's guards to give him counselling.

Mohamed's British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said his client had been beaten "dozens" of times inside the notorious US camp in Cuba with the most recent abuse occurring during recent weeks./b] He said: "He has a list of physical ailments that cover two sheets of A4 paper. What Binyam has been through should have been left behind in the middle ages."

These allegations that Binyam Mohamed was brutalized at Guantanamo in the last several weeks -- while the Obama DOD was "concluding" that conditions there comported with the Geneva Conventions -- are coming from highly credible sources. The Obama administration has the obligation to make available an official in a position of real authority to speak on the record and attempt to reconcile these seemingly irreconcilable stories. The pledge to end the brutality and secrecy of the Bush detention regime was one of the centerpieces of Obama's campaign. One would think, on their own, they'd be eager to address these allegations in a forthright and candid way.

more at:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/22/guantanamo/index.html

[chill_wind]

1. thread here, too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5109222

Binyam was also one of the victims in the CIA torture flights states secrets case that just got thrown out by the Obama DOJ.

It looks like we are going to let the UK begin our war crimes investigations for us. And I hope those investigations are ruthless in pursuit of the truth and justice.