Six years in Guantanamo
Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk
09/25/08
Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year – after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers – and now he hopes one day he’ll be able to walk without his stick...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-six-years-in-guantanamo-941479.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Pakistani Journalist Says US Destroyed His Life
"I was tortured and jailed for 11 months and 20 days for doing nothing," he added. "They have destroyed my future, my soul. I'll fight until they apologize to me and give me back what I have lost," he said.
http://poligazette.com/2008/09/24/pakistani-journalist-says-us-destroyed-his-life/
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sami+al-Haj
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
by Robert Fisk
09/25/08
Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year – after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers – and now he hopes one day he’ll be able to walk without his stick...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-six-years-in-guantanamo-941479.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Pakistani Journalist Says US Destroyed His Life
"I was tortured and jailed for 11 months and 20 days for doing nothing," he added. "They have destroyed my future, my soul. I'll fight until they apologize to me and give me back what I have lost," he said.
http://poligazette.com/2008/09/24/pakistani-journalist-says-us-destroyed-his-life/
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sami+al-Haj
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
rudkla - 25. Sep, 11:07
