Monday, February 23, 2009

Some Physical Proof Please

Today the Guardian has run an article revealing the full details of the torture practiced at Guantanamo Bay if by details you mean a bunch of allegations with no evidence presented to back them up:

Binyam Mohamed will return to Britain suffering from a huge range of injuries after being beaten by US guards right up to the point of his departure from Guantánamo Bay, according to the first detailed accounts of his treatment inside the camp.

Mohamed will arrive back tomorrow in the UK, where he was a British resident between 1984 and 2002. During medical examinations last week, doctors discovered injuries and ailments resulting from apparently brutal treatment in detention.

Mohamed was found to be suffering from bruising, organ damage, stomach complaints, malnutrition, sores to feet and hands, severe damage to ligaments as well as profound emotional and psychological problems which have been exacerbated by the refusal of Guantánamo's guards to give him counselling.

Mohamed's British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said his client had been beaten "dozens" of times inside the notorious US camp in Cuba with the most recent abuse occurring during recent weeks. He said: "He has a list of physical ailments that cover two sheets of A4 paper. What Binyam has been through should have been left behind in the middle ages."

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For an article entitled "Revealed: full horror of Gitmo inmate's beatings" this seems a little light on details. Let's see the Dr.s report. How old are the bruises? Are they consistent with other injuries? Was the prisoner on a hunger strike leading to the malnutrition? You know facts!

The rest of the article is a bunch of blather about Britain being complacent in torture by the ISI, what that has to do with Gitmo I don't know.

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