"They tortured me. ... They beat me a lot. So I told them anything they wanted to hear," he said

[NNN0LHI]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jTZHlBQGbKZQHEGGWKuA52n9lXlw

US to charge Guantanamo detainee with attempted murder
1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States will charge a fourth terror suspect held at its Guantanamo detention camp, an Afghan who was 17 at the time of his arrest in Kabul, the Pentagon said Friday.

Mohammed Jawad, now 22, will be charged with attempted murder in violation of the laws of war and intentionally causing injury for allegedly throwing a grenade at a US military vehicle, wounding two US soldiers and an Afghan interpreter. snip

"Nobody asked me to throw a grenade. I have never thrown a grenade. I don't understand how to throw it," Jawad said, according to redacted transcripts made public last year.

Jawad insisted that the grenade that exploded was thrown by the recruiter but that Afghan police officers coerced him into making a false confession.

"They tortured me. ... They beat me a lot. One person told me 'if you don't confess, they are going to kill you.' So I told them anything they wanted to hear," he said, adding that Americans did not mistreat him.

[bonito]

1. Kick

[Mnemosyne]

2. knr for more exposure. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

3. Who thinks this guy wasn't tortured by the Afghan police who interrogated him?

Anyone?

Don

[Richard Steele]

4. Not me. nm

[gratuitous]

5. "See?" said Mr. Bush. "We don't torture, just like I said."

We let other people do it for us.

The question that remains, however, is that since they've had Mr. Jawad in custody for five years, and they've had his confession in hand for five years (remember it was beaten out of him by his Afghan captors, who haven't had custody of Mr. Jawad since 2002), why are charges being brought only now?

[Zandor]

6. And we should believe a terrorist because?

Like saying he was coerced makes it so?

[JeffR]

8. And we should believe he's a terrorist because?

Like Bushco claiming he's a terrorist makes it so?

[Zandor]

10. Mohammed Jawad tried to kill Americans

Flawed as it may be, I'll trust in our system dealing with his type more than him.

[JeffR]

13. Not saying I necessarily believe him, but

I sure as hell don't take anything the mis-Administration says at face value.

From the article:

Some 330 "war on terror" suspects are being held in Guantanamo at a detention camp that was created after the United States invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Most have never been charged with a crime.

This, among other things, tends to undermine my faith in our system...

[icnorth]

9. And we should believe a terrorist because?

Unless you are privy to information that isn't available on this thread, that should read "terror suspect".

[Zandor]

11. If convicted, will you believe he is a terrorist?

Or will you cling to his denials as exoneration?

[icnorth]

12. 330 "war on terror" suspects are being held in Guantanamo

Most have never been charged with a crime.

[dkofos]

7. Great, throwing grenades in a war zone , at the enemy, is murder.

They have no shame, or intelligence.

[soulcore]

14. Of course it's murder...

But it certainly isn't Terrorism.

I've often used the analogy of "What if a country was to invade and occupy America in order to capture our war-criminal president? And then didn't leave?"

And the answer is always along the same lines as "I would be a terrorist."

With pride even.

Nationalism is no cover for barbarism and murder.

[Zandor]

15. Long term occupation isn't our goal

Democracy is. As ill-advised and poorly managed as the war effort has been, one stated goal, shared by Democrats and Republicans alike, is bringing democracy.

[PaulaFarrell]

17. that goal was retro-fitted

it was never used as a raionale for starting either war.

[Karenina]

16. Nor is there evidence that this young man

is guilty of anything other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time...