In the first eyewitness account to come out of the infamous Bagram prison, Londoner Richard Belmar talks exclusively to David Rose
Sunday February 27, 2005
The Observer
The security service MI5 turned down a recommendation by American intelligence that it try to recruit a British prisoner as an agent in the war against terror and instead consigned him to three years' detention in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, an Observer investigation has revealed.
The Briton, Richard Belmar, 25, who returned from the American camp at Guantánamo, Cuba last month, said in an exclusive interview that his skull was later broken with a rifle butt and that he was tortured by the strappado method of being hung by his wrists from handcuffs. He said he was a witness to the death of another prisoner which the US has officially classed as murder.
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Is this Amerika? Macon Telegraph My government is starting to scare me to death. No, this is not about Republicans or Democrats. Politicians of both ilks scare me equally when it comes to taking away something that is mine or invading my privacy. It's bad enough law enforcement, using provisions in the Patriot Act, can do a "sneak and peek" investigation inside my home without telling me. They can watch where I go on the Internet; how I spend my money and track which books I read. Continued: http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1101731.htm Shame on Bush for rights violationNewsweek
An American citizen jailed and maybe tortured in Saudi Arabia for 20 months, possibly at the behest of the U.S. government, is the latest outrage in a litany of detention excesses in the war on terror. That list of shame includes ghost detainees kept off the books by the CIA, captives abused in U.S.-run prisons abroad and prisoners designated enemy combatants and denied basic due process. Continued: http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1101729.htm More news from Torture Nation: http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1101729.htm
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- Robert A Heinlein
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- H.L. Mencken
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