EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News

[kpete]

Source: ABC

ABC News
EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was Tortured
By JAKE TAPPER, KAREN TRAVERS, and STEPHANIE Z. SMITH

June 8, 2009

For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005."
These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, swept up in a post-Sept. 11 dragnet and accused of plotting to blow up the U.S. and British Embassies in Sarajevo.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Boumediene said the interrogators at Gitmo never once asked him about this alleged plot, which he denied playing any part it.

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"I thought America, the big country, they have CIA, FBI. Maybe one week, two weeks, they know I am innocent. I can go back to my home, to my home," he said.

But instead, Boumediene said he endured harsh treatment for more than seven years. He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight, and physically abused repeatedly.





Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=7778310

[liberalmuse]

1. I haven't said this in months, but...

FUCK BUSH! I want to live to see Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz and a whole lot of others punished for their crimes against humanity. This is unacceptable. I also hope Boumediene sues the ever living fuck out of them and gets enough money for him and his family to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. This was done in our name. I want to rip these monsters to pieces with my bare hands.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Remember - Cheney and Bush were placed in position be the barons.

Of course, Cheney and Bush were remunerated, the barons got theirs first. Cheney and Bush were the up front faces - they agreed to their roles. Those who were their bosses are nearly faceless to us.

If Obama continues the prisons and torture .......

[Festivito]

2. They found one with no NEW stories, i.e. beyond released pics.

Gotta keep the meme flowing just so.

[WriteDown]

3. This is impossible...

"He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight..."

[OKNancy]

5. Oh my.. read the whole article

It's not a long article.. It will make you sad and angry at the same time.

[Doctor_J]

6. This sort of news must be frightening to Hannity, Bush, etc

once the revolution starts here, their nightmares might well come true.

[inna]

7. omg. please read the entire article. it's absolutely horrific. nt