U.S. Jails Man Once Tortured by Taliban

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Enemy of the State: Kurdish Man Who Was Imprisoned by Taliban Detained for Years by U.S. By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN

WASHINGTON Oct 21, 2006 (AP)

Abdul Rahim insists he's an apolitical student who fled a strict father. But he's fallen into a black hole in the war on terror in which first the Taliban and then the United States imprisoned him as an enemy of the state.

Arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan in January 2000, Rahim says al-Qaida leaders burned him with cigarettes, smashed his right hand, deprived him of sleep, nearly drowned him and hanged him from the ceiling until he "confessed" to spying for the United States.

U.S. forces took the young Kurd from Syria into custody in January 2002 after the Taliban fled his prison. Accusing him of being an al-Qaida terrorist, U.S. interrogators deprived him of sleep, threatened him with police dogs and kept him in stress positions for hours, he says. He's been held ever since as an enemy combatant.

Rahim's story is one of several emerging from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay as defense lawyers make bids to free their clients while the Bush administration tries to use a new law to lock them out of federal courts.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2593695

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1. Why would a Kurd be messing with the Taliban or al Qaeda? It doesn't

pass the sniff test...one more instance of the Kurds being let down by everyone.