Lawyers Show Images of Padilla in Chains...

[bridgit]

'MIAMI - Still video images of alleged terror operative Jose Padilla in chains and wearing headphones and blacked-out goggles demonstrate the harsh tactics used by U.S. interrogators while he was in military custody as an "enemy combatant," his lawyers said in court papers.

The images, taken from an unclassified Defense Department video, show Padilla being chained hand and foot and led out of his cell by three guards dressed in camouflage and wearing riot helmets and visors. The video images are the first publicly released of Padilla's 3 1/2-year detention at a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C.

They were filed late Friday in federal court in Miami as part of an attempt by Padilla's lawyers to get criminal terrorism support charges against him dismissed, based on what they claim was treatment that amounted to torture while in military custody.

"The extended torture visited upon Mr. Padilla has left him damaged, both mentally and physically," Padilla lawyer Orlando do Campo said in one court filing. "The government's treatment of Mr. Padilla has robbed him of his personhood." http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1204-04.htm

[NNadir]

1. This case is one of the worst abuses ever.

I happen to understand nuclear technology and I know just from that that the whole matter is a pure fiction, just as I knew the "Niger uranium" story was a fiction.

This is an American citizen who has been arbitrarily deprived of his civil rights for political purposes. It is an outrage and a disgrace. Even if he were a terrorist - and I'm not sure that this is anything more than a completely fabricated fiction - this man is a citizen and is entitled to a just and fair trial.

It's a disgrace and impugns the rights of all Americans, victim and otherwise.

[bridgit]

2. most agreed, this cheney/bush junta will leave until forced out...

[Tunkamerica]

3. junta

like the album

[bridgit]

4. better?