Posted on 04/15/2009 12:14:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A DETAINEE at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay said he was beaten almost daily and that nothing has changed since Barack Obama took over as US president, it was reported today.
Mohammad al-Qurani from Chad told Al-Jazeera that tear gas was used on him for refusing to leave his cell and he had a front tooth broken.
The alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Mr Obama was elected president in November and "since then I've been subjected to it almost every day", he said.
"Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change," said Qurani.
Al-Jazeera said that after being transferred to a different part of the prison in southern Cuba for those awaiting release, Qurani was allowed to make phone calls and called Sami al-Hajj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman who spent six years in Guantanamo.
Qurani described how he had refused to leave his cell because they were "not granting me my rights" such as being able to walk around or have "normal food".
A group of six soldiers wearing protective gear and helmets entered his cell, along with a soldier carrying a camera and another with tear gas, Al-Jazeera quoted him as saying.
"They had a thick rubber or plastic baton they beat me with. They emptied out about two canisters of tear gas on me," he said.
"After I stopped talking, and tears were flowing from my eyes, I could hardly see or breathe," said Qurani.
"They then beat me again to the ground, one of them held my head and beat it against the ground."
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Sorry to have missed that. Would have paid good money to be there (if it were true).
Why are we the only one’s “enjoying” the change that UhBamUh has brought...I say we spread the change around and let some of the terrorists enjoy some change as well.
Change from breathing our air to pushing up daisy’s works for me!
du in a pickle again
So that makes him, what, Obushma?
yeah right...sounds like standard procedure used in every U.S. prison to extract an uncooperative prisoner from his cell.
You can see the same thing occur nightly on “Lockup”
B. Hus-same!
Obama is a War Criminal! Extradite him to The Hague to be tried for his crimes!
What a crock.
Quick, somebody call Spain! Holder and the “0bama Six” need to stand trial!
Let’s see how the media spins this!
“nothing has changed since Barack Obama took over as US president”
Maybe reading those daily intelligence reports changed O’s mind.
Define “almost daily”.
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