News and Politics | January 06, 2009 | 3 comments

So, What's It Like Being Tortured in Guantánamo?

source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/06/americas/gitmo.php

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"LAHORE, Pakistan: When Muhammad Saad Iqbal arrived home here in August after more than six years in U.S. custody, including five at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he had difficulty walking, his left ear was severely infected, and he was dependent on a cocktail of antibiotics and antidepressants.

In November, a Pakistani surgeon operated on his ear, physical therapists were working on lower back problems, and a psychiatrist was trying to wean him off the drugs he carried around in a white plastic shopping bag.

The maladies, said Iqbal, 31, a professional reader of the Koran, are the result of a gantlet of torture, imprisonment and interrogation for which his Washington lawyer plans to sue the U.S. government..."

And yet people are surprised when Amnesty International denounces us.
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3 comments // So, What's It Like Being Tortured in Guantánamo?

  • spanky07
  • ruebezahl
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      ruebezahl  
    • spanky07:

      Welcome to the GESTABO hero you have a future in the USA. Maybe you should exchange your uniform with the SS uniform I am sure it would fit your stile better. Long live liberty and freedom!!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • brainery
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      brainery  

    • It's sad but true it happens in more places than just there some people never make it out and blame other inmates for the slayings preferably a lifer they don't mind excepting a charge like that for favors from the pen

    • 3 years ago
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