Account of torture inside American Gulag

[teryang]

This is a rather long and not easy to read account of the torture of three detainees brought from Afghanistan to the camp at Gitmo.

It is a valuable primer on how far we have fallen and the preferred American techniques of torture both to punish and extract confessions from prisoners. The facts are irrelevant in these "confessions." One reads the account and might as well be reading about the Soviet Union or North Korea:

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RAS408A.html

Composite statement:
Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay
by Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed


Centre for Constitutional Rights, NY, http://www.ccr-ny.org/ , 26 July 2004
www.globalresearch.ca 25 August 2004

<This statement jointly made by them constitutes an attempt to set out details of their treatment at the hands of UK and US military personnel and civilian authorities during the time of their detention in Kandahar in Afghanistan in late December 2001 and throughout their time in American custody in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. This statement is a composite of the experiences of all 3. They are referred to throughout by their first names for brevity. There is far more that could be said by each, but that task is an open-ended one. They have tried to include the main features. <snip>

<Rhuhel says ‘I think we were all suffering from the cold, dehydration, hunger, the uncertainty as well as the pain caused by the plastic ties. Added to this, periodically Special Forces soldiers would walk along a line of sitting detainees and kick us or beat us at will ’. Asif adds that ‘they would abuse us in English, constantly swearing and threatening us. I recall that one of them said "you killed my family in the towers and now it’s time to get you back". They kept calling us mother fuckers and I think over the three or four hours that I was sitting there, I must have been punched, kicked, slapped or struck with a rifle butt at least 30 or 40 times. It came to a point that I was simply too numb from the cold and from exhaustion to respond to the pain’.<snip>

Much more.

Much as has been the case with biological warfare, illegal development of sophisticated torture methods meant to circumvent international law, the Red Cross and American media have been developed by the Pentagon. These techniques were studied in the past allegedly to prepare American troops psychologically for capture, now they are used illegaly and offensively against others.

[gottaB]

1. Consistent with reports from Abu Ghraib

Miller should stand trial for this. Rumsfeld too.

I'd like to see all those genteel essayists who sought to justify torture answer for this.