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| Guantanamo prison worse since Obama election - ex-detainee |
| 2009-03-07 |
| A FREED Guantanamo Bay prisoner claims conditions at the US detention camp in Cuba have worsened since President Barack Obama was elected, claiming guards wanted to "take their last revenge". Binyam Mohamed, who became the first detainee to be transferred out of Guantanamo since President Obama took office, also said British agents "sold me out" by cooperating with his alleged torturers. In his first interview since being released, Mr Mohamed, a 30-year-old Ethiopian-born former UK resident, gave further details of what he called the "medieval" torture he faced in Pakistan, Morocco, Guantanamo and a secret CIA prison in Kabul. "The result of my experience is that I feel emotionally dead," he told the Mail on Sunday. President Obama had promised during his campaign to shut down the Guantanamo prison and two days after taking office announced it would close this year. "Since the (US) election it's got harsher," Mr Mohamed said. "The guards would say, 'yes, this place is going to close down,' but it was like they wanted to take their last revenge." Mr Mohamed said he was beaten at Guantanamo and while he was held in Morocco his chest and penis were slashed with razors. In Afghanistan he lived in constant darkness and "came close to insanity" after being forced to listen to the same album by rapper Eminem at top volume for a solid month. He flew back to the UK last month, tasting freedom for the first time since 2002 when he was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan and plotting to build a radioactive "dirty bomb". The US never charged him, and British police who questioned him on his return let him go free. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 "Worse" is a "change", isn't it? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-03-07 20:49 |
| #1 Guantanamo prison worse since Obama election ...along with everything else. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-07 19:19 |