"I was abused by soldiers": Hicks (Guantanamo Bay)

[the Kelly Gang]

I was abused by soldiers: Hicks
By Roy Eccleston, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
August 27, 2004
ALLEGED Australian terrorist David Hicks has pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges and has told his father Terry that he was beaten and abused by US forces after being seized in Afghanistan, at an emotional meeting on his first day before a US military commission.

But the fresh allegations came as Foreign Minister Alexander Downer released the results of a US Department of Defence investigation which found there was no evidence of abuse of either Hicks or fellow Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib while in US custody.

But a spokesman for Mr Downer, when asked about a report carried in The Australian in May which alleged Hicks had been beaten by two US soldiers while in Northern Alliance custody in Afghanistan in 2002, said he could only point to the letter containing the results of the investigation.


http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10581584%255E2702,00.html

[Ms. Clio]

1. The DOD investigates itself and finds no crimes

There's a shocker.

edited to add: I like your nick!

[liberalmuse]

2. Amazing, isn't it?

I've investigated myself and found out I am God. It's all in the official report. See how that works?

[Ms. Clio]

4. Who could doubt it? I mean, it's right there in print, so it must be true

[pinniped]

3. They even beat-up that one military dude in the demonstration...

not knowing he was one of them.

Remember that?

[Ms. Clio]

5. I do remember that--and wasn't Guantanamo the training camp

for the torturers in Iraq now?

[dudeness]

6. what a complete and utter disgrace..

has there ever been an investigation commissioned by the government, for the government, that has ever criticised the government?..we indeed live in orwellian times..

[babylon_system]

7. Illegal detentions, piracy, kidnapping, torture, extortion, mass murder

God Bless America.