Tortured Gitmo Prisoner: "I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known"

[kpete]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022301200_pf.html?ref=fp4

Mohamed apologized for not appearing in person at the news conference, saying that for the moment he was "neither physically nor mentally capable of facing the media."

He said he wanted to speak out on behalf of the 241 Muslim prisoners he said were still being held at Guantanamo and the "thousands of other prisoners held by the U.S. elsewhere around the world, with no charges and without access to their families."

"While I want to recover, and put it all as far in my past as I can, I also know I have an obligation to the people who still remain in those torture chambers," he said. "My own despair was greatest when I thought that everyone had abandoned me. I have a duty to make sure that nobody else is forgotten."

He added, "I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known, so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. American Public: "Truth? Good luck with that."

[hootinholler]

2. nobody in the future should have to endure

:cry:

May it be so.

-Hoot

[ThomWV]

3. I am hoping that this man is the key to war crimes trials for all that deserve them

Start with the individuals who actually did the torturing and then every single person in the chain of command from them to either Rumsfeld, Tenet, or Rice, and virtually everyone in Justice associated with justifying this crime against the mankind.