Salim Hamdam takes the stand and describes the extreme torture he has faced at Guantanamo Bay.
This is SCARY stuff!
Bamboo under the nails? Chinese water torture? Endless waterboarding?
NO.
It appears a female interrogator tortured him by coming close to him and actually touching his thigh. In fact, Reuters is told of even worse treatment - some prisoners have had women actually imply they were going to touch their groins! These are akin to threats of rape!
The madness of it all!
And worse - guards have been known to wake the prisoners up at night! by banging on their cell doors no less!
Meanwhile, lawyers for accused Canadian terrorist Omar Khadr released 2003 videos taken during one such interrogation. Khadr weeps and moans for his mommy under the pressure of being woken up during the middle of the night and having women threaten to touch his legs.
MORE: Bin Laden driver describes treatment at Guantanamo
AP: Gitmo video offers glimpse of interrogations - By the second day, however, he is seen in a frenzy of despair after realizing the Canadian agents are not there for his release, repeatedly moaning "Ya Umi," - "Oh Mommy" in Arabic.
MSNBC: In today's continuing episodes of yellow journalism, Dan Abrahams, referring to the videos above, points out that, at one point, Khadr shows his Canadian interrogators that he still has wounds from battle and complains they haven't been treated well enough since he was placed in GITMO - the way Dan left it hanging, however, it was if the injuries happened at GITMO and that was Khadr's complaint.
MALKIN: Gitmo detainee: I was groped!
Jihad Watch: Reality behind crying Gitmo kid vid (from the National Post) - "My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out, and he did that successfully and that is the underlying reason why we're all here in the first place ..."
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Posted at Jul 15, 2008 07:42 PM EST in Terrorism. |



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