Posted on 05/15/2007 1:55:55 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON — An accused enemy combatant held at Guantanamo Bay told a military hearing he was physically as well as mentally tortured there by having to read a newsletter full of 'crap,' being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.
Majid Khan of Pakistan denied any connection to Al Qaeda and said he was tortured and his family hounded by U.S. authorities, according to a redacted transcript released Tuesday by the Pentagon.
Khan told an April 15 hearing called to determine whether he was rightly classified as an "enemy combatant"... that he also had his baby pictures taken from him, that cleaners left marks on his cell walls and that detainees have no DVD players or other entertainment...
Khan was captured in Pakistan in 2003. The military says he has provided support to Al Qaeda and has expressed a desire to assassinate Pakistan's President Pervez Musharaff...
The transcript, however, includes detailed descriptions of what Khan said was abuse at Guantanamo. He said he has been unable to see his daughter, was denied communal recreation for 11 weeks,... And he complained that he was only given cheap unscented soap and shampoo, and that in the recreation room there is "no weight lifting machine, no toilet, no sink, ho hoops, and even balls them self have little air in them; they hardly bounce."..
Khan, who grew up in Maryland and is the only U.S. resident among 15 detainees the government considers most dangerous, also described suicide attempts where he "chewed my artery which goes through my elbow."...
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Send Paris Hilton there...
He’d better pipe down or they’ll make him watch “The View” 24/7.
An accused enemy combatant held at Guantanamo Bay told a military hearing he was physically as well as mentally tortured there by having to read a newsletter full of ‘crap,’ being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.”
and to think, the LEFT will jump on this as proof of torture..
THE BALLS WERE NOT BOUNCY AND THEY TOOK MY CANDY! NO NINTENDO! NO DVD PLAYER! CHEAP SHAMPOO!
Under inflated basketballs?!!!!! This is a job for Deval Patrick!!!!!!!!!
I really think all these ‘detainees’ need to be taken 25 miles out into the Carribean and thrown off the boat....
during an experiment during which they’re tied to 100 lb rocks to see if the rocks float with humans attached..
Yup.
and even balls them self have little air in them; they hardly bounce."..
"Detainees at Guantanamo Bay denied air"
I would send him to Pakistan and let Musharoff deal with him.
They have the New York Times at Gitmo? Or did he try to read something from his toilet paper?
being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo
Smells better than Goat dung, though.
and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.
Pardon me... but how old is the terrorist?
I double checked to see if the news source was a satire site.
GEEZ............Some things just are so unbelieveable, and this is one of them. Protesting the lack of DVD and other entertainment in a prison???????????/
Over there, they are more humane. They just cut off people’s heads instead.
Yeah, it's the old "Be careful what you wish for" problem.
U.S. intelligence also says Khan's cousin and uncle, who were both members of Al Qaeda, introduced Khan to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, who in a similar hearing at Guantanamo Bay depicted himself as Al Qaeda's most prolific planner.
Dad and bro threw him under the bus.
Good enough for me.
Ratchet up the torture, put panties on his head
Play Sanjaya 24/7.
Entertainment? Isn’t some guy in Texas having weekly pig races next to his property line bordering some surly, whining Muslims? Maybe a Cuban franchise...
Let’s close Gitmo. There are some nice cells this guy could share with Bubba right here in the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois that would suit him fine. Trust me, after one night there he’d have seen enough balls bouncing to last him a lifetime.
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