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Thursday, March 13, 2008

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.

Comments

Sounds like he’s ready for the comfy chair!


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 13, 2008 at 12:53 pm

This 17 year old was the

worst of the worst

Ya think?

WOOF on March 13, 2008 at 01:10 pm

So, WOOF, you have access to his dossier?  How do you know why they want to keep him?

Really for bitchy people like yourself, this is a win-win proposition.  If they keep him, the info on why he is kept is classified, making the US an easy target to impugn.  Finally if they release him and he attacks and kills American troops, you can impugn them for releasing him.

Carrick on March 13, 2008 at 01:17 pm

Perhaps, we should have allowed him to go towards the light
smile


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Anna on March 13, 2008 at 05:29 pm

It is time to close Guantanamo. We have housed hundreds there for the duration of the Iraq war and have indicted 6 people for 9/11. Meanwhile, the others are tortured, clothed, fed and given medical care courtesy of the American taxpayer. Bush officials claim that the detainees have been a source of intelligence which has been used to thwart planned terrorist attacks. I don’t believe them. 9/11 was a well planned effort years in the making. Terrorists have fortitude which we cannot match. Like 9/11, we will not see the next attack coming. So let’s close the prison and return these people (many of whom are innocent) over to their respective countries.
We will only be safe when those agencies that are tasked with protecting us put aside their rivalries and truly begin to work together and share intelligence.

watashiwa on March 13, 2008 at 06:43 pm

watashiwa.  We have not tortured enemy combatants in Guantanamo.  They were captured on the battlefield.  We are at war.  What are you thinking?  How old are you?  These people are being treated better than civil criminals in the USA.  This guy tried to kill our troops in combat.  For those who have never been in combat should not try to judge the enemy.  Read Flyboys.  Find out what the JAPS and these-type religious fanatics have and are doing.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on March 13, 2008 at 07:58 pm
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Tell him to count his fingers! Unless he lost one BEFORE qwe caught him, he still has all ten of them!

Tortue...NAH...Stupidity...Now there’s a thought!

Lee S Gliddon Jr on March 13, 2008 at 09:21 pm

I do believe the long drop on a short rope will cure his headache.


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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Rodney Graves on March 13, 2008 at 09:36 pm
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I’m very sure Ace was being sarcastic.  He has no love for the terrorists that’s for sure.  Val-u-rite vodka on the other hand....

David J. on March 14, 2008 at 02:14 pm

WOOF,

Unlawful combatant = war criminal = corpse*

*hanging or lethal injection required, not included.


Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Rodney Graves on March 14, 2008 at 04:08 pm
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