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| Alleged Al-Qaeda Driver Testifies on Interrogation Tactics |
| 2008-07-16 |
| Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged al-Qaeda driver who faces an historic military trial next week, testified Tuesday that a female interrogator elicited information from him using sexually suggestive behavior that was offensive to him. Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, told a military court conducting a pretrial hearing that during questioning in 2002 a woman interrogator "came close to me, she came very close, with her whole body towards me. I couldn't do anything. I was afraid of the soldiers.'' "Did she touch your thigh?," asked Hamdan's lawyer, Charles Swift. "Yes...I said to her 'what do you want?'' Hamdan said. "She said 'I want you to answer all of my questions.''' "Did you answer all of her questions after that?'' Swift asked. Hamdan said he did. Hamdan's lawyers are seeking to convince a judge to throw out incriminating statements Hamdan allegedly gave to interrogators at the military prison here, arguing that they were obtained through coercive interrogation tactics. His trial, scheduled for Monday, would be the first military commission conducted by the United States in more than half a century. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 I guess that NVA prison guard is right, John Mc Cain was never tortured. He never made hin wear women's panties on his head or made him look at naked women's boobies! |
| Posted by: bruce 2008-07-16 17:22 |
| #11 "Sure, we would use nails, power tools - heh my favorite was this device we rigged up where a broken bottle was attached to the end of a power drill, wow that did the job. Oh, and ever play infidel darts? Ya get a nail gun and stand 10 cubits off and...oh..what they did to me? Well some cat food - er, unveiled temptress - touched me near my allan bits. Snorkeling, definately off the table. The worse was that video with the talking sheep, you know like in Babe, asking me overheated questions. Thats when I broke." (trails off into whimpers and moans) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-07-16 17:15 |
| #10 We all have seen pre 9-11 videos of Al-Qaeda terrorists driving around Afghanistan in Toyota pickups. For those who don't know, 200 of same were given to the Taliban by the Islamic Republic of Saudi Arabia. |
| Posted by: Ebbath Darling of the Poles9166 2008-07-16 17:05 |
| #9 Gimmie a break. this is "coercive"? Hell, anything is coercive in interrogation, that's the whole point of it. Hang the pos and give his lawyer 40 whacks with Lizzie Borden's bloody axe. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-16 14:38 |
| #8 Touching story. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-07-16 13:35 |
| #7 "Did you answer all of her questions after that?'' Swift asked. Hamdan said he did. Notice that he caved over something this insignificant? Do any of their man have any kind of self control? No wonder all their women are in the bag. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-16 13:27 |
| #6 The insidious "American Lap Dance Torture". |
| Posted by: Formerly Dan 2008-07-16 11:35 |
| #5 or a walrus: "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of Joooos--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-16 08:59 |
| #4 Next time, tab his ZamZam with acid and send in the talking goat. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-16 08:55 |
| #3 "I was humiliated by my tiny chubby" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-16 08:13 |
| #2 That's not a standard Penthouse Letters fantasy? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-16 06:46 |
| #1 Surreal. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-07-16 03:20 |