Guantanamo agents 'used torture'

BBC News ^ | Wednesday, 14 January 2009

[Malone LaVeigh]

US agents at Guantanamo Bay tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in the 11 September attacks, the official overseeing trials at the camp has said.

Susan Crawford told the Washington Post newspaper that Mohammad al-Qahtani had been left in a "life-threatening condition" after being interrogated.

She said Mr Qahtani had been subjected to sustained periods of cold, isolation and sleep deprivation.

Mr Qahtani remains at Guantanamo, but all charges against him were dropped.

He had been facing trial on counts of conspiracy, terrorism, and murder in violation of the laws of war.

[Malone LaVeigh]

She said: "If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques?

I'd like her to point out one time our objections over the treatment of our soldiers in enemy hands ever resulted in any improvement.

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: She said Mr Qahtani had been subjected to sustained periods of cold, isolation and sleep deprivation.

I will be taking a trip to the mountains of Nepal this year and will experience cold, isolation and sleep deprivation. Does this mean I am torturing myself?

[PhiloBedo]

Exactly! Why don’t we just behead the enemy combatants and be done with it.

[Slapshot68]

“She said Mr Qahtani had been subjected to sustained periods of cold, isolation and sleep deprivation.”

The victims of 911 were subjected to far worse.

[Grimmy]

I suspect he was about as close to being in “life threatening conditions” as I am to being crowned King of Mars, Jupiter and all points beyond by the Intergalactic Space Agency.

[reefdiver]

We were never again attacked. Zero can do things His way. Results are what counts. People did talk afterwards. She is alive.

[The Sons of Liberty]

She said: "If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques?

Is she so naive as to believe that al queda, or any of the others we're fighting, abide by the Geneva Conventions?

[Pistolshot]

You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual," she told the Post. "This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health.

In other words, he was not brutalized or had his head cut off, he just had to suffer some cold, sleep deprivation and Barry Manilow.

Torture, indeed.

[subterfuge]

According to a report by Amnesty International, Mr Qahtani was at various times forced to wear women's clothes and was tied by a lead and forced to perform animal tricks.

Elliot Spitzer would have paid thousands for the same treatment!

And the document, published last May, also contained allegations that dogs had been used on two occasions to "terrorise" the detainee.

On the other hand, I heard the terrorists raved about the cuisine. And the prayer rugs were nice too!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Guantanamo agents ‘used torture’

Thank You Agents for doing your duty and placing the well-fare of American Citizens over Political Correctness the concerns of Socialists and other assorted Terrorist factions.....

[listenhillary]

After all of the whingeing about the treatment, they are puzzled what to do with a man too dangerous to release.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Forget torture its better to send the SOB back in a body bag. (or pig skin) These bleeding hearts never bleed for the victims, they only bleed for the culprits.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” no decision has yet been announced on the future of Mr Qahtani and other inmates who are deemed too dangerous to release, but may be impossible to prosecute.”
Institution for the criminally insane? For life? Rubber room, straightjacket for life.

[Edit35]

If this “Republican” Susan Crawford is typical of the type of people hired and trusted by the Bush Administration, it’s no wonder the Bush Administration’s war on terror is viewed as broke. (which it’s not)

Even if she felt so strongly, she should have kept her own counsel.... instead of blasting this all over the world.... which not puts American service men and women in EVEN MORE harm than they already are.

Every time I get the least bit proud of the Bush Admin, something like (Susan Crawford) occurs which makes me wonder if the admin ever had any brains.

[SECURE AMERICA]

“If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques?

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Well Mam, you obviously are not much of a historian or fact checker or you would know that the enemies we are engaged with sort of like to drag people behind vehicles dead or alive, march them through streets beating them with sticks and clubs to the cheers of the onlookers, hang them in public and or chop their heads of with big swords.
Soory that our enemies are not the touchy feely nice people you would like them to be and that we (America) must do somethings that we would otherwise not want to so in order to save our Nation and Civilization..
However if you do not like civilization you are welcome to move to Sudan or Iran at any time.............

[SueRae]

I don’t care if they dipped him in acid, we got information that saved lives.

We can always take NO prisoners.

[Vaquero]

all I can say is

THANK YOU

Guantanamo agents, for keeping us safe.

[mmichaels1970]

Mr Qahtani remains at Guantanamo, but all charges against him were dropped.

Not to infer that he's innocent, however. I think the original charges against him were dropped, but weren't new ones were filed a couple of months ago?

"This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health."

Hope they didn't give him cigarettes.

[ScottinVA]

Why do our guys just shoot him in the head, and everyone wins?

[Sig Sauer P220]

Define torture.

NOW!