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Canadian prisoner says US interrogators at Guantanamo threatened to rape him | |
2008-03-21 | |
A young Canadian prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay has said in legal documents that US interrogators repeatedly threatened to rape him and Canadian government visitors told him they were powerless to do anything. The claims were part of an affidavit sworn by Omar Khadr, 21, who is charged in the Guantanamo war court with murdering a US soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15. Khadr has long claimed that American interrogators in Bagram, Afghanistan, had abused him after his capture in July 2002 and at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval base in Cuba, where he was taken to a few months later. The previously undisclosed allegations of the rape threats were part of a nine-page affidavit released by the US military on Wednesday, with some of the names and details blacked out. “On several occasions at Bagram, interrogators threatened to have me raped, or sent to other countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan or Israel to be raped,” said Khadr in the document.
Khadr said he was often shackled for hours during interrogations and denied use of a bathroom, forcing him to urinate on himself. “While my wounds were still healing, interrogators made me clean the floors on my hands and knees. They woke me up in the middle of the night after midnight and made me clean the floor with a brush and dry it with towels until dawn. They also made me carry heavy buckets of water,” he said. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#14 Good old American warfarin should do just fine, ed. |
Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-03-21 22:49 |
#13 I think Army medics should carry Chinese Heparin to treat jihadi casualties. |
Posted by: ed 2008-03-21 12:08 |
#12 I wish they'd turn him loose in a bar in Flin Flon, Manitoba . . . . or in a bar in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. The miners or the cowboys would teach this little piece of excrement what a Canadian is like when he gets . . . . . .upset. Now I'm upset. You wouldn't like me when I get upset. Khadr shouldn't mhadr. More coffee. |
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2008-03-21 11:30 |
#11 "charged in the Guantanamo war court with murdering a US soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15" A fine "Canadian" indeed. Execute him now, and don't make a field mistake like this again. |
Posted by: Darrell 2008-03-21 10:29 |
#10 Doing the raping Americans won't do. That appears to be reserved to educational and religious professionals according the the |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-21 09:13 |
#9 “On several occasions at Bagram, interrogators threatened to have me raped, or sent to other countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan or Israel to be raped,” said Khadr in the document. Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians and Israelis: Doing the raping Americans won't do. |
Posted by: Excalibur 2008-03-21 08:11 |
#8 Khadr was shot twice in the back and suffered shrapnel wounds in the eye during the battle that led to his capture at a suspected Al Qaeda compound. US |
Posted by: Besoeker 2008-03-21 07:06 |
#7 I say we post what he sasys we threatened to do all over Afghanistan and Pakistan, with denials that it's just "wishful thinking on his personal fantasy" before letting him go. |
Posted by: Charles 2008-03-21 05:34 |
#6 Let him be free as bird... From 35000ft above ground. |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-03-21 02:33 |
#5 Apparently he wasn't aware that Kim Kardashian was Soldier No 9. |
Posted by: gorb 2008-03-21 02:32 |
#4 Should have been summarily executed in the field --- all nice and according to the Geneva Conventions..... Is it too late? |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-03-21 00:36 |
#3 I say it everytime I see this little shit. They should've blown him up when they had the chance. |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-21 00:22 |
#2 Liar. |
Posted by: newc 2008-03-21 00:18 |
#1 But did they ever saw your head off Omar? No, then go f yourself. My sympathy meter is at zero. Threats and hard work are not torture they are threats and hard work. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-03-21 00:15 |