Disappeared: Five Years in Guantanamo
A German citizen, Murat Kurnaz, was released from Guantanamo after being tortured there for five years. He was sold by Pakistani police to the US for a $3000 bounty, and only released due to efforts by the Chancellor of Germany.
Every story you hear of people released from Guantanamo is the same. They are innocent, they were sold to the US for a $3000-$5000 bounty, and they were tortured for ~5 years until their release. It’s hard to believe the US is willing to release anyone from Guantanamo at all, but it seems that they don’t have to be afraid of former prisoners telling their stories. The American press won’t report stories of innocent people being tortured at Guantanamo (exception, NPR, TAL episodes 310 and 331), and even when the stories to hit the international news wires, Americans don’t seem to care at all.
In the prison camp in Kandahar, Kurnaz said, he was hoisted on chains and was forced to hang by his hands while he was being interrogated. He was left hanging for “hours and days” after the interrogators left. An American physician in camouflage would come and check his vital signs to determine if he could withstand more enhanced interrogation.
Previously: toturtured and held without charge for 5.5 years in Guantanamo after he was sold to the US for a $5000 bounty - via reddit
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all these stories about guantanamo are heartbreaking :-( they make me realize how really really lucky i am…and sooo grateful for my friends and family, the food in my refrigerator…my cushy blanket…it puts all the tiny little things i stress about in perspective. they are miniscule.
this is probably terribly naive, but i really want to believe that most people are not evil (aside from a few psychopaths which i’m sure exist on both sides of the fence)…
fear causes people to do things that are not rational, and there’s no arguing with fear :-(
this article was in the paper a few weeks ago…
http://tinyurl.com/ysn44u
unfortunately, i don’t expect the existing administration will close guantanamo with the election coming up next year (admitting a mistake is not going to garner them votes from either side). it will take a new one to do the right thing. hopefully that will happen.