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2021-11-08 Home Front: WoT

CIA Torture Finally Rebuked, By Military Jury

[Consotium News] The New York Times reported last week that a military jury at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo issued a sharp rebuke against the C.I.A.’s treatment of al-Qaeda prisoner Majid Khan, calling the Agency’s torture program "a stain on the moral fiber of America."

The jury recommended that Khan receive a 26-year sentence, the shortest possible under the court’s rules. Seven of the eight jurors—all U.S. military officers—then hand-wrote a letter to the military judge urging clemency for Khan.

The sentencing hearing, and Khan’s two hours of graphic testimony, marked the first time that details of the C.I.A. torture program were laid bare in public.

Khan testified that during the course of his interrogations, after he was captured in Pakistan in 2003, he told the C.I.A. "literally everything" he knew. He was truthful with the information, but "the more I told them, the more they tortured me." Khan said that his only alternative was to make up information about threats, anything to get his interrogators to stop torturing him. When the information then didn’t pan out, Khan was tortured yet again.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-08 00:39|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 when islam condemns muhammed's example of cutting his victim's heads off, i'll care then.

Posted by Dino Croluth1992 2021-11-08 02:42|| 2021-11-08 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 When you get back to waging war rather than some over the top Hollyweird production, give me a call.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-08 06:49|| 2021-11-08 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Lying about their treatment in captivity is literally in their handbook.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-11-08 08:02|| 2021-11-08 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure Mr. Khan would treat any one of us with kind and humane treatment.

Posted by Chris 2021-11-08 08:51|| 2021-11-08 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Some of our special forces undergo waterboarding as part of their training in case of capture. I'd let them make the final decision.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-11-08 09:49|| 2021-11-08 09:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Should have interrogated them on the battlefield then summarily executed them. Would have stopped a lot of the crap that came afterwards.

Posted by Old Patriot 2021-11-08 21:14|| 2021-11-08 21:14|| Front Page Top

#7 ‘I told them everything, but the more I told them, the more they tortured me.’ Does anyone else see anything odd in that statement?

Posted by Glenmore 2021-11-08 22:30|| 2021-11-08 22:30|| Front Page Top

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