Two Britons held at the US base at Guantanamo Bay have sent an open letter to President Bush detailing the alleged abuse they suffered there. Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, held at the base for more than two years, said they were deliberately humiliated. Guards used strobe lights, dogs and loud music - particularly from US rapper Eminem - to extract information, they allege. US military officials at Guantanamo have denied the accusations. "We have never applied any of those techniques," the Associated Press quoted a spokesman for the US mission at Guantanamo as saying.
Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal said detainees often were forced to go naked as punishment for minor offences, even when female guards were present. They also said they were forced to squat with their hands chained between their legs for hours during questioning. "Soldiers told us ’We can do anything we want’," the men said in the open letter to Mr Bush and members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They said they were driven to falsely confess they were two figures in an August 2000 videotape that also showed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal are among five Britons released from Guantanamo whom the British Government freed without charge after determining they were not a security threat.
I wondered how long the Tipton Taleban would be able to keep quiet for. Thanks Aunty for giving them the succour of publicity. I must admit that I find Mr Mathers’ music quite terifying as well. |