Lawyers seek damages for Guantanamo detainees who were allegedly abused

AP ^ | 10/27/4 | PAISLEY DODDS

[SmithL]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Four British citizens released from Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States seeking $10 million each in damages for abuse they allegedly suffered at the U.S. military outpost in Cuba, attorneys said Wednesday.

The suit on behalf of Shafiq Rasul, 26, Asif Iqbal, 22, Rhuhel Ahmed, 22, and Jamal Al-Harith, 37, was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and a Washington-based law firm.

The four were released to British authorities in March after nearly three years at Guantanamo Bay. They were detained in northern Afghanistan on Nov. 28, 2001, by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance.

The suit is believed to be the first filed on behalf of a Guantanamo Bay detainee. Earlier this month, lawyers for a still-imprisoned Briton, Moazzam Begg, said in London they would file suit Oct. 4 demanding that the United States halt what they called his "inhumane treatment," although it is unclear if that suit was ever filed.

The lawsuit alleges the four were chained to the floor while strobe lights and loud music were played in a room chilled by air conditioning set at maximum levels. The men say they were subjected to the conditions for up to 14 hours at a time.

[SmithL]

Here's $0.37.

Now go away.

[Brilliant]

They should have been executed.

[Minnesoootan]

"The lawsuit alleges the four were chained to the floor while strobe lights and loud music were played in a room chilled by air conditioning set at maximum levels."

Sounds to me like a middle eastern mans wet dream to me.

[2banana]

They should have cut off their heads and put the video on the internet...

[Rodm]

You mean the former detainee that are shooting at our troops in Afghanistan

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

If they’re “British citizens”, what the hell were they doing in northern Afghanistan on Nov. 28, 2001?

They’re damn lucky they were released at all!

[nascartex]

To the detainees: "Oh you poor things. I guess it doesn't pay to be a terrorist huh?"

They were all treated better than OUR troops were treated.

[angkor]

strobe lights and loud music were played in a room chilled by air conditioning set at maximum levels.

If they were also given "small orange pills with happy faces" I'd say they were stuck in a Jakarta disco, not Gitmo.

[Chode]

so much for the rough & tough jihad... what a bunch of girlymen