USS Cole suspect 'tortured by US'

[BurtWorm]

:shrug:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/6511921.stm


A Saudi man held in US custody for five years has told a military hearing he was tortured into confessing a role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 41, said he had faced years of torture after his arrest in 2002, a Pentagon transcript from the closed-door hearing said.

Mr Nashiri said he made up stories to satisfy his captors, the transcript said, but gave no details of torture.

He was among 14 "high-value" detainees moved to Guantanamo Bay in September.

The 14 men were previously held in secret CIA prisons but are now being detained in a maximum security wing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The US has accused Mr Nashiri of being the leader of al-Qaeda's operations in the Gulf at the time of the attack in Yemen, which killed 17 US sailors and almost sunk the warship.

He was tried in absentia in a Yemeni court in September 2004 and sentenced to death.

Interrogators 'happy' ...

[goddess40]

1. Which makes any information gathered useless

and it makes the US look bad.

[Squatch]

2. "Well then I get all excited."

"I'm like Jojo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. Now the pet is my possible sale. Hello there pretty little pet, I love you. And then I stoke it, and I pet it, and I massage it. Hehe I love it, I love my little naughty pet, you're naughty. And then I take my naughty pet and I go
(makes ripping noises as he tears apart the roll)
Uuuuuuh. I killed it. I killed my sale. And that's when I blow it"

------Every time I hear about something this administration fucks up, I'm reminded of this line from the movie Tommy Boy.

[BurtWorm]

3. I didn't see Tommy Boy

but I get the picture!

:toast: