Bahrain royal family member tortured at Guantanamo prison camp: rights cen

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11:55 PM EDT Aug 07
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - A Bahraini human rights groups said Saturday at least two Bahrainis, including a member of the closely U.S.-allied Persian Gulf state's royal family, being held at the U.S. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been tortured and abused.

The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said the allegations were based on a report by three Britons and a phone call by an Arab prisoner freed recently from the U.S. detention camp.

The rights group's president, Nabeel Rajab, identified the Bahrainis as Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary and Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa.

Family members of both men, and four other Bahrainis detained in Guantanamo, said they were all performing humanitarian work in Pakistan when mercenaries from that country captured them and handed them over to U.S. forces, Rajab reported.

They were later sent to the detention facility in Cuba, where they are being held on suspicion of links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.

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[TahitiNut]

1. Well, there's another former ally.

:eyes:

[seemslikeadream]

2. Could have been a little nicer

U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters
Juffair, Bahrain

• This is home port for the U.S. 5th Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

• Bahrain is opposed to a unilateral U.S. strike against Iraq. "Iran and Bahrain declare their determined opposition to any unilateral military action against Iraq," the pair said in a joint statement issued at the end of a two-day visit to Tehran by Bahrain's king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Sheik Isa Air Base
Sitrah, Bahrain

• Sheik Isa Air Base served as a key allied base during the Gulf War and continued to be used by the U.S. military in subsequent years.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/iraq/bases/fifth.fleet.html&h=267&w=390&sz=8&tbnid=-NJlBpG4od0J:&tbnh=82&tbnw=119&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBahrain%2Bus%2Bbases%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

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3. Duplicate

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=734772