Obtained Under Torture - Slahi's Guantanamo File Full of Dubious Information

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,759729,00.html

04/29/2011

By Marcel Rosenbach

<snip>According to the first page of the document, which is one of over 700 Guantanamo detainee assessments obtained by WikiLeaks, the prisoner confessed to being a member of al-Qaida and attending its training camp in Afghanistan. The man, who was given the detainee number US9MR-000760DP, allegedly swore "bayat" (an oath of allegiance) to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and was willing to die as a martyr for bin Laden's cause. He also allegedly stated that his main responsibility had been to recruit volunteers for the terrorist organization in Europe.

In addition, the Joint Task Force claims in its assessment that the prisoner ran "the al-Qaida cell in Duisburg, Germany." This important piece of information is stated as fact in the file, without any ifs, ands or buts.

However, German investigators were -- and still are -- unaware of the existence of any Duisburg cell. Nor is any such cell mentioned in the files resulting from the extensive investigations conducted after the Sept. 11 attacks.

[mmonk]

1. Torture can render any answer you want like say, wmd's in Iraq.

[gratuitous]

2. But the only thing the U.S. is interested in is . . .

Prosecuting the man they accused of releasing this information, not the substance of the information itself. In the eyes of our government, it is now a greater crime to say that someone was tortured than it is to say that we tortured that person. One will get you a drumhead ceremony; the other will get you a medal, if you can stand to wear it.