After 2 years in Guantanamo, released Pakistani scholar still has nightmares
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His name is Saad Iqbal Madni and he is 33 years old. As an Islamic scholar, he was employed to read the Koran during prayer times and religious holidays for the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. He was one of the countless Pakistani and/or Afghan people at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was picked up by Indonesian authorities in 2002 acting on behalf of the USA on rumors that he had told someone he knew how to make a bomb.
Despite lack of evidence against Madni, the CIA had him transferred to Egypt for further questioning. This is what is called extraordinary rendition, with the understanding that the detainee is going to be tortured in order to extract a confession from him. Madni is a linguist and was able to detect the Egyptian Arabic with which he was being interrogated. His three months there left with a perforated ear drum, and scars from the electric shocks he received.
From Egypt, he was flown to Diego Garcia in a wooden box, a British territory in the Pacific used by the United States. His body was folded in half so he could fit into the box, and he was diapered as they didn't allow him to go to the bathroom. From there, he continued on to Bagram airbase prison in Afghanistan where the Americans took him over.
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Despite lack of evidence against Madni, the CIA had him transferred to Egypt for further questioning. This is what is called extraordinary rendition, with the understanding that the detainee is going to be tortured in order to extract a confession from him. Madni is a linguist and was able to detect the Egyptian Arabic with which he was being interrogated. His three months there left with a perforated ear drum, and scars from the electric shocks he received.
From Egypt, he was flown to Diego Garcia in a wooden box, a British territory in the Pacific used by the United States. His body was folded in half so he could fit into the box, and he was diapered as they didn't allow him to go to the bathroom. From there, he continued on to Bagram airbase prison in Afghanistan where the Americans took him over.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: After 2 years in Guantanamo, released Pakistani scholar still has nightmares - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/after-2-years-guantanamo-rele...
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