Three Britons Allege Abuse by U.S. at Cuba Base

[guajira]

Brits describe behavior much like that at Abu Ghraib.

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NEW YORK — Three Britons freed from Guantánamo Bay claim they suffered systematic brutality and were kept in cages in the Cuban heat while held at the U.S. military base.
In a report released by their lawyers yesterday, the men say the brutal treatment forced them to make false confessions.

Asif Iqbal, Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul, friends from England, were released from the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo in March after more than two years. They were detained in late 2001 in Afghanistan.

The men describe repeated beatings throughout their detentions in Afghanistan and Guantánamo. One says he was told by a U.S. soldier: "You killed my family in the towers, and now it's time to get you back."

At the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, they say other prisoners were subjected to brutal treatment similar to the abuse later uncovered at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. One of the men says prison guards would stage races of detainees in short leg shackles, violently punishing them if they fell.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001997119_gitmo05.html

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1. I will say it.

Torture is never justified under any circumstances.

[guajira]

2. What Scares me about this story

is the part about the "false confessions". What kind of crap info are these prisoners feeding the US??

[Moderator]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=726803