Turk Was Abused at Guantanamo, Lawyers Say

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Lawyers for Murat Kurnaz, a German native released Thursday after spending more than four years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he was mistreated to the end by U.S. military personnel, who kept him shackled and blindfolded until his flight home landed.

Bernhard Docke, an attorney representing Kurnaz, a 24-year-old Turkish citizen who was born and raised in Germany, said his client was kept in a "cage" and under bright neon lights 24 hours a day during his captivity at Guantanamo. "The Americans are incorrigible, they have not learned a thing," Docke said at a news conference in Bremen, Kurnaz's home town. "He was returned home in chains, humiliated and dishonored to the very end."

Defense Department officials said they agreed to free Kurnaz on the condition that Germany treat him humanely and that it ensure he would no longer pose a security threat. The U.S. government still considers Kurnaz an enemy combatant, said U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler, a Pentagon spokesman.

"It was only after lengthy discussions that the U.S. government decided that conditions were appropriate to return Mr. Kurnaz to Germany," Peppler said in a telephone interview. "We do not consider Mr. Kurnaz or any other detainee we transfer as zero risk. To a certain extent, they still do pose a threat."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501270.html

[earthboundmisfit]

1. Well if they didn't hate us BEFORE they got tossed into Gitmo

they sure as hell do by the time they get out - if they get out...

[Hav]

2. .

"Defense Department officials said they agreed to free Kurnaz on the condition that Germany treat him humanely"

What the fuck?? Seriously, WTF? That's coming from them after 4 years of torture and inhuman treatment?

[intaglio]

3. Part of the agreement that got UK citizens freed

Was that the UK took no diplomatic or legal action against the US

Wanna bet that the Germans haven't had to agree to the same thing? On the other hand the courts in Germany are known to have a lot more freedom from Government control

just hoping aloud

[Rose Siding]

4. YEARS in shackles when the US KNEW he wasn't a terrorist.

"Declassified records in his case made public last year show that he was kept behind bars and designated an enemy combatant even though U.S. military intelligence and German law enforcement officials had largely concluded that there was no information tying him to al-Qaeda or terrorist activities."

And still they lie ("We do not consider Mr. Kurnaz or any other detainee we transfer as zero risk. To a certain extent, they still do pose a threat.")

This is a horrible, horrible crime.

[lumpy]

5. Kick

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