Guantanamo Detainee Claims He Was Tortured In US Captivity
Tortured...by harsh prison lighting.
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A young prisoner accused of throwing a grenade that injured two U.S. soldiers and their translator in Afghanistan called the Guantanamo war court illegal and unfair on Wednesday, and then refused to participate further.
“I’ve been tortured. I’m a human being. I have not violated any law,” Afghan prisoner Mohammed Jawad said in his first hearing on charges of attempted murder and causing great bodily injury. . . .
“I’ve been brought here illegally . I am innocent. It’s an injustice to me,” he said through a Pashto translator. . . .
Jawad refused to have a military or civilian lawyer, and the judge agreed to revisit the issue and delayed entering a plea. Jawad told the judge that years of harsh prison lighting had given him a permanent headache that made him unable to listen further, then removed his translation earphones and laid his head on the table in front of him.
Ace responds:
Quick, let’s let him free so our nation can begin to heal and recover its honor.
Right. Better he be out there trying to murder our troops than in a detainment facility providing us with intel and complaining about the lighting.












